Rafael
@rafa_akmr
building Spencer - the AI workforce replacing marketing agencies
If the NSA ever reads my TL I just want them to know that I feel honored
Everything you do is permanently recorded by the NSA. Once you become interesting, they go back and look at it all.
Proof of human is coming
The daughter of the Astronomer CEO racked up 100K followers and 15M views on TikTok overnight. The only problem is the Astronomer CEO doesn't have a daughter. Someone just stole some girl's photos on IG and told stories through them to go viral. I wondered why? What the hell…
We are the lurking blue whale
There is a reason I have no problem with the world assuming We build vapor This is fine This is intentional We are the Lurking Blue Whale
The “own your data” crowd feels like virtue signaling Most people want to give up their data bc you get better UX I want my ai to know more about me, not less
Ai creates nonlinear cognitive advantage Some individuals get a 10% boost, others get 10x’d Those who get highest lift have messy minds, big deltas and high idea density
we’re gonna have ai therapists for ai induced psychosis, aren’t we?
It’s time.
you can drop that em dash, but we can still sniff out that gpt from your love of antithesis
"AI will eat SaaS" IMO, no, it will eat Services which is 25X larger. the prize isn’t the familiar $200B SaaS pool; it’s the $4.6T enterprises pour each year into salaries and outsourced services – the very labor-intelligent agents are now poised to absorb.
Cheat on your fundraise built an agent that finds every investor who’d fund your startup does deep research on them then makes a clone you can pitch and argue with until you’re ready for the real thing
Unsolicited career advice: If you find an original thinker with a strong moral compass, do whatever it takes to work with them. Both of those things are incredibly rare standalone, even rarer when together. They are also are traits that cannot be acquired imho.
True independent thinkers are not just countercultural, they do not accept any information or ideology at face value. They usually hold an inherent reverence towards epistemic integrity. If you are someone who is easily swayed by fringe beliefs and swallow them whole - you are…
cybernetic feedback-regulation is how companies filled with the most rizzless elites to ever exist make world historical culture production products. richard sutton always wins
Writing crystallizes a fleeting moment into something only you could have said, in just that way
signal to noise ratio on this app feels lower than usual. I’ve adjusted my browsing time accordingly
You don’t need to overindex on status signaling Just build something and let the market validate it