Tony Bernard
@gotony
Web + mobile with a side of location. Hiker (CT, CDT, OHT, ONRT), trail runner.
In the hey day of affiliate marketing you could earn a referral commission by referring other affiliates. Basically it was a small % of all the network made on that affiliate's revenue generation. I realized that some of these networks had odd names that were difficult to…
Hey @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was
in the mobile era, we got infinite scroll. with ai, we get infinite everything. infinite game worlds that never end. infinite conversations… infinite content in general. before abundance becomes the norm in society, we’re kinda tasting early infinity in everything digital.
please make this go viral so I can pay for repairs our humanoid robot boy DeREK completely lost his mind @REKrobot
More and more I feel like there is a sweet spot between vibe coding (i.e. I don't know how to code this, I just let the ai take the wheel) and manual coding where I am not wasting hours because I missed a comma but I know how everything works
You think your team is cracked? We built a headset to headset wireless streaming on a humanoid robot in 2 days. @fewerwrong
Barrels and ammunition → barrels and tokens The classic @rabois startup wisdom is that at software companies you need two kinds of people: ▪️ barrels: rare, high-leverage individuals in a company who can take an idea from start to finish ▪️ ammunition: talented specialists…
"The moment you begin to make something real, you kill the perfect version that lives in your mind. Creation is not birth; it is murder. The murder of the impossible in service of the possible."
1. Be smarter 2. Do things others aren’t willing to do (aka Work Harder) 3. Never stop learning No matter how technology changes, grit, a growth mindset, and curiosity will always be in demand.
4. What Microsoft’s Layoffs Means for Sales Teams They do not want generalist sales reps who do not know their product to show up to big deals in the age of AI. They prefer having a solution engineer that knows the product & partner with somebody in sales. It wasn’t a…
The first version of Coinbase launched with just a hot wallet - a risky proposition. We were in beta and the app prominently told people not to store any money there they couldn't afford to lose. But the amounts of deposits kept steadily rising. I realized we needed to build…
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My dad first came to this great country from Jodhpur, India in 1968. He borrowed $1k from his uncle for the trip and got a full scholarship for a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University. He got an arranged marriage with my mom in 1972 and they both came to…
Incredible that problems are all around us like this. They’re just waiting to be solved. Big or small.
new World of DaaS pod with my friend @fabricegrinda . he’s invested in 1200+ startups and shares some wild insights on venture at scale: 🎯 going from 300 pitches → 1 investment/week 🎲 contrarian takes on AI valuations 🏦 how secondary sales generate most of his exits
I rode a @wayve_ai self-driving car today throughout NYC. With no prior training data from New York it navigated across Brooklyn and Manhattan traffic and chaos flawlessly. Life mission complete.
It works! It'll move much more aggressively, but this is about the limit of passenger comfort. Base is solid, motion is smooth and quiet. All parts either available off the shelf or made by OSH Cut. Now we need to disassemble and powder coat it...
always be growing up and you’ll never miss the timing; the world is full of curious things to tinker with.
sometimes i wonder how much smarter i’d be if i had chatgpt growing up.
I have two thoughts I wanted to get out: 1/ some of the “I can’t believe they are using AI for XYZ” feels like will become fadeable / common in the coming years. Many things like that became popular / common as internet matured 2/ it will make us dumber / take dumber risks.…
One of my top 10 favorite projects
🚨 KegRocket EPISODE 4 is finally LIVE! 🚨 youtu.be/0kY2uYqOTcc
Well, well, well, it looks like I found my retirement job🤔
"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack