Alex Rampell

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” -Richard Feynman (1966) feynman.com/science/what-i…

Film Cameras (Type 1) vs Digital Cameras (Type 2, later killed by smartphones). Normally it would take ~ 1 decade for one innovation to crush the next. Same with platform effects — years for Excel to crush Lotus 1-2-3, etc. AI has compressed creative destruction into months.

Operation Chokepoint 3.0 Under the Biden administration, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 tried to debank and deplatform crypto: financialservices.house.gov/news/documents… That era has ended, but now the banks are about to implement their own Chokepoint 3.0 — charging insanely high fees to access data…

incredible that the DA tried this case. your government genuinely hates you.

These perverse acquisition structures exist because antitrust transmogrified from “protect consumers from harm” to “prevent outcomes that regulators don’t like,” and we’re only now noticing the effects because a 1-year approval delay is incompatible with AI market velocity. The…

There are still a large number of purchase forms on the web that don’t support ApplePay or GooglePay and that make it impossible to auto-fill credentials. It’s almost like they don’t want more sales.

The new Turing Test is can you get a job at a company trying to solve the Turing Test

As I wrote a couple years ago, systems assuming writing can act as a proof of effort, ability, or care are going to collapse and need to be reconstituted. Everything from letters of recommendation to expert reports to essays to performance reviews... oneusefulthing.org/p/setting-time…

It is always said that you can’t teach common sense, but apparently you can teach people (for $90K/year in college tuition) to lose their common sense

Larry Ellison and Rafael Nadal on winning (and fighting)

Goldman Sachs is wading back into the market for SPACs three years after stricter regulatory scrutiny prompted a self-imposed ban on handling so-called blank-check companies. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless.

Alcaraz emerges on the GOAT Tracker (Men's Slams v Age)

Where is voice AI "working" now? Four areas of the market where I'm seeing the most traction - each of which has different dynamics (and opportunities!) for builders👇

Cursor for video editing is here. The new Underlord agent from @DescriptApp is insanely good at automating edits. Upload a clip and describe what you want changed - like "cut out pauses and filler words" or "add captions." The agent does it for you. A quick example 👇

SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm — it's about being cited by it. The brands that…

this is the MOST permissionless moment in history. 10 years ago, you needed investors, cofounders, an office, and 6 months of burn just to start a startup. not anymore: 1. you want a startup idea → go mining on reddit, app store reviews etc 2. you want customers → build an…

Hello! At @DescriptApp we are bought in on AI agents - very pleased to announce something we've been working on for awhile: Our agentic video editor - i.e. cursor for video. Sign up to try it out at descript.com/agent

1/ In any fast growing organization – one of the best feelings as a manager or CEO is having someone who works for you that I call “Safe Hands.”

<IRS payment system down> “You owe us money. But you can’t give it to us. But you still owe it. Have a nice day!”

Today, we're announcing Larridin. Our company built to enable organizations to continuously measure and optimize workforce & AI agent productivity. Over the last year, we talked with thousands of our former customers and partners. Again and again we heard the same thing from…