Melissa Aurigemma
@fresco_inferno
Philosopher, artist, AI ethicist, poet, etc, etc by night and by day Chief of Staff @exceptionalcap
ADHD hyperfocus rabbit holes should be pursued and prioritized at all costs, no matter how random. Every obsession adds another layer to your unique worldview. Another perspective to pull from and more data points to prop up your strongest skill (pattern recognition). Follow…
ADHD mfs at 3am doing detailed research on the most useless topics known to mankind
i love grapefruit but why does it have to be such a fight to consume
"It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential."
Are some jobs going away? Yes, but.... We hosted @jaltma on our latest Get Paid episode with @medinism Well worth your time this weekend to hear where things are going youtube.com/watch?v=TEBJ1O…
Weekend read! 💫 I loved this book, a work in translation, written many years ago...enjoyed this review of it and would recommend both the review and the book itself. clereviewofbooks.com/dino-buzzati-t…
one of my first conversations with @Marell_Evans was at like 1AM local my time and something definitely not 9-5 his time. he tops the list of most responsive people i've ever worked with, across time zones, weekends, anything. so i can endorse this wholeheartedly…
Founders if that investor isn’t hyper-responsive. Fired Them. Hire me. @ExceptionalCap
Exciting things from @GradientLabsAI x @AnthropicAI!✨ anthropic.com/customers/grad… We are proud supporters over at @ExceptionalCap
yikes
For better or worse, depending on your view of the future of AI, the only time the letters "AGI" appear in the new White House AI Action Plan is in the word "leveraging."
if you haven't yet watched @Marell_Evans in convo with @RossRobinson and @AngelList this blog is a great overview! angellist.com/blog/winning-i…
Lucky to learn from and grow with @Marell_Evans @ExceptionalCap @TheNestVC @grahaminhoo everyday! With support from @AngelList
"As much as they're interviewing you, you're interviewing them." @Marell_Evans (@ExceptionalCap) and @RossRobinson (@UWVelocity) share their playbooks for raising from ILPs. Dig into the full conversation & key takeaways: angellist.com/blog/winning-i…
Agreeeeeee
confession: i really, really like occasionally pulling all-nighters for work-related or learning or reading-a-book sorts of reasons, and think that the energy an all-nighter brings is unique and irreplaceable
weekend read! 💡 agree? disagree? love? hate?npr.org/2025/07/11/g-s…
I've never had a 9-5 brain, but rarely have issues working intensely, taking a break as needed, getting sufficient sleep. I've also been very intentional to create a life I don't need a vacation from...helps to work with likeminded people though @Marell_Evans 😎
The PTO culture<
reading Debord's Society of the Spectacle and I think this observation definitely aligns, especially re: reification - the "hero" is marketable, valorized
It currently feels like technology only wants the “heroic” archetype & maximizing their self-expression It completely crowds out other ideas of founder archetypes & vectors of expression Not only do we lose critical identities if everyone is meant to be a hero. We lose the plot
I’ve been studying Emmanuel Levinas for over a decade and I have so much to say. Writing this dissertation is hard, succinctly stating WHY I think Levinas is so relevant re: AI isn’t really any easier because the reasons feel endless…
Levinasian theory to replace Rand in SV 🩷 my mission is to popularize Levinas tbh
Agree with this breakdown, really well summarized in terms of initial experience and experimentation. Curious to see how Agent evolves, was cool to use, but certainly didn’t feel immediately life changing.
I've spent the afternoon testing ChatGPT's new consumer automation product - Agent. Where does it work, and where does it fall short? And how does it compare to Operator (and newer products like Perplexity's Comet)? My review 👇