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dead olaf, quantum gaps

Hi friends, We’re LIVE NOW, with Natasha and Quasimatt chatting with Alli from Vercel and Sam from The Better Money Company. Tune in below!!— # (#) Love, The Boys Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Octant is making moves. Did you see the news?— # (#) Milady Purity Test. Earlier this month, the Ethereum Foundation published a 38-page mandate built around "CROPS" (censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, security), and over the past few weeks the conversation around its delivery and influence ha...

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Pioneering Spirit

Emperor Norton never ate at the French laundry

At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Norton I, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, thence of San Francisco, and now resident in the cloud (which I am assured is not a meteorological phenomenon but a series of warehouses in Oregon), do hereby issue the following Decrees for the amelioration of evils under which this once-great Republic labors. I am told things have worsened considerably since 1880. From what I can gather, Con...

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Trust Me Bro Show

The European Automotive AI Revolution

Nobody talks about Europe when it comes to AI. They're all looking at Silicon Valley and Beijing. But while the hype was elsewhere, three German automakers quietly built something serious. Here's what's actually happening ✍🏽 TDLR:Volkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭BMW: Robots on the Factory Floor 🦾Mercedes: AI From Factory to Dashboard 🚗The Suppliers Nobody Mentions 🔧The Bro's Take 🤔LISTEN HEREVolkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭Volkswagen is not running pilots. It's running infrastructure. Over 1,200 AI a...

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Brandon Donnelly

The historic drop in US international migration

The WSJ recently published a pair of articles (here and here) talking about where the US is growing and shrinking — through charts. The three components of this are domestic migration, international migration, and births minus deaths. One of the key themes for the year ending in June 2025 is that the country is seeing significantly less international migration. According to the WSJ, more people moved out of the US than moved in last year for the first time since the Great Depression.Internati...

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Aztec Launches Alpha Network

A fully functional upgrade that brings native privacy to data, identity, and computation to mainnet alpha.

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EPL GW31: Winners And Losers

Gameweek 31 was dominated by non-EPL football as Manchester City and Arsenal locked horns in the Carabao Cup final. However, while most eyes were on Wembley, so many EPL games played out in very interesting fashion. European chasers secured crucial victories, relegation stragglers continued the battle for survival, and we had another Tyne-Wear derby. Here are all the winners and losers from a fascinating gameweek of football.Losers: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Yeah, so here is the thing: Tottenham ...

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Hard Mode First

Beyond AI Forward: What Zapier’s New Rubric Gets Right (and What’s Missing)

A New Benchmark for AI Fluent OrganizationsYesterday, the team at Zapier released their new AI fluency rubric.Wade Foster@wadefoster Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric. We use it for every hire, focusing on what they’ve actually built. Last May we open-sourced V1. Hundreds of companies used it to screen candidates and develop teams. It worked. But the floor moved fast. An updated look at the 32:00 PM · Mar 31, 2026 · 9.49K Views4 Replies · 11 Reposts · 114 Likes A few things you’ll n...

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The First Volunteers

The First VolunteersShanidar 1 couldn’t have survived without help. He suffered a severe blow to the head, lost his right arm at the elbow, sustained damage to his right leg, and experienced progressive, profound deafness. There were no pain meds. Only cold, and cave bears looking for easy prey. And yet, Shanidar 1 lived to around fifty years old, which in the Ice Age made him ancient. He could not hunt. He could not carry. He probably could not even chew tough meat. And yet, morning after mo...

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Base 2026 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

Ride It to the Sky

Last year i built an ai biographer for my parents. I wanted to capture their life stories and learn about ai voice. With my friend Avi, we built an agent that would talk to my mom and dad on the phone and it was trained to ask them personalized questions about their life. After each “chapter” was completed a separate agent would write it up Walter Isaacson style for everyone to read so people could follow along as the stories were told. Since then we have been experimenting with new ways to c...

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Brandon Donnelly

The hidden cost of regulatory fat

In the olden days here in Toronto, approved development land used to sell for a premium compared to unapproved land. This was true because approved land meant you could start construction much sooner. And since time has value, this was worth something. Today, this is far less valuable to developers (if at all) because, in most cases, the market does not support new construction. So, the land may be approved, but what does one do with it? Rather than speed, I would say that the most valuable f...

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Hard Mode First

5 Benefits of Thinking Like an Engineer at Work

Adopting an Engineering MindsetOver the past 2 years, I’ve been aggressively leaning AI. While a lot of people might presume that this means I’m simply throwing myself into the newest tools of the day, I’ve found that the bigger benefit has not been about learning new tools — or even the productivity gains. It’s been learning how to think like an engineer. Here are the four core skills that I’ve noticed myself applying more liberally than ever before in my career:Decomposition: Taking a big p...

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Ride It to the Sky

I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens. My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the t...

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Aave V4 Goes Live On Ethereum

Aave V4 is now live for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs. The launch includes a new interface called Aave Pro.

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Notes From The Oversky

The Network State Of Mind

As I write these words, sitting across from me is a man worth billions. He’s in a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, and sandals, sipping a three-dollar coffee, no different from mine....

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The Visual Renaissance (and How to Own It)

Back in the MTV days, a "music video" meant a six-figure check, a crew of forty, and three months of post-production hell. Now those types of budgets are quickly ending.

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29 Seconds of Farcaster

29 Seconds of Farcaster, March 30, 2026

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? @nickysap released a new Farcaster client with built-in audio spaces | https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xb56d9f83 @unooo.eth is headed in a different direction from Farcaster client to Makechain client. I'd love to explain what that means, but I can't 🤷‍♂ | https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0xc6cb67c2 Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp starts today, who's in? | https://farcaster.xyz/limone.eth/0xc2eef950 Degen NFTs were revealed ... saw some on ...

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Tasklet's Task Computer

Our portfolio company Tasklet is a platform for making agents that do things for you. USV uses it to create agents that automate a lot of work for us. This post, which I mentioned last week, explains how USV uses Tasklet. Recently, Tasklet launched a feature called Task Computer which is a Linux computer in the cloud that can do things for you and automate them. My wife, The Gotham Gal, is using Task Computer to log into her Instagram account, go to her Instagram Collections, and pull out all...

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dead olaf, quantum gaps

Hi friends, We’re LIVE NOW, with Natasha and Quasimatt chatting with Alli from Vercel and Sam from The Better Money Company. Tune in below!!— # (#) Love, The Boys Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Octant is making moves. Did you see the news?— # (#) Milady Purity Test. Earlier this month, the Ethereum Foundation published a 38-page mandate built around "CROPS" (censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, security), and over the past few weeks the conversation around its delivery and influence ha...

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Pioneering Spirit

Emperor Norton never ate at the French laundry

At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Norton I, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, thence of San Francisco, and now resident in the cloud (which I am assured is not a meteorological phenomenon but a series of warehouses in Oregon), do hereby issue the following Decrees for the amelioration of evils under which this once-great Republic labors. I am told things have worsened considerably since 1880. From what I can gather, Con...

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Trust Me Bro Show

The European Automotive AI Revolution

Nobody talks about Europe when it comes to AI. They're all looking at Silicon Valley and Beijing. But while the hype was elsewhere, three German automakers quietly built something serious. Here's what's actually happening ✍🏽 TDLR:Volkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭BMW: Robots on the Factory Floor 🦾Mercedes: AI From Factory to Dashboard 🚗The Suppliers Nobody Mentions 🔧The Bro's Take 🤔LISTEN HEREVolkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭Volkswagen is not running pilots. It's running infrastructure. Over 1,200 AI a...

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Brandon Donnelly

The historic drop in US international migration

The WSJ recently published a pair of articles (here and here) talking about where the US is growing and shrinking — through charts. The three components of this are domestic migration, international migration, and births minus deaths. One of the key themes for the year ending in June 2025 is that the country is seeing significantly less international migration. According to the WSJ, more people moved out of the US than moved in last year for the first time since the Great Depression.Internati...

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Aztec Launches Alpha Network

A fully functional upgrade that brings native privacy to data, identity, and computation to mainnet alpha.

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EPL GW31: Winners And Losers

Gameweek 31 was dominated by non-EPL football as Manchester City and Arsenal locked horns in the Carabao Cup final. However, while most eyes were on Wembley, so many EPL games played out in very interesting fashion. European chasers secured crucial victories, relegation stragglers continued the battle for survival, and we had another Tyne-Wear derby. Here are all the winners and losers from a fascinating gameweek of football.Losers: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Yeah, so here is the thing: Tottenham ...

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Hard Mode First

Beyond AI Forward: What Zapier’s New Rubric Gets Right (and What’s Missing)

A New Benchmark for AI Fluent OrganizationsYesterday, the team at Zapier released their new AI fluency rubric.Wade Foster@wadefoster Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric. We use it for every hire, focusing on what they’ve actually built. Last May we open-sourced V1. Hundreds of companies used it to screen candidates and develop teams. It worked. But the floor moved fast. An updated look at the 32:00 PM · Mar 31, 2026 · 9.49K Views4 Replies · 11 Reposts · 114 Likes A few things you’ll n...

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The First Volunteers

The First VolunteersShanidar 1 couldn’t have survived without help. He suffered a severe blow to the head, lost his right arm at the elbow, sustained damage to his right leg, and experienced progressive, profound deafness. There were no pain meds. Only cold, and cave bears looking for easy prey. And yet, Shanidar 1 lived to around fifty years old, which in the Ice Age made him ancient. He could not hunt. He could not carry. He probably could not even chew tough meat. And yet, morning after mo...

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Base 2026 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

Ride It to the Sky

Last year i built an ai biographer for my parents. I wanted to capture their life stories and learn about ai voice. With my friend Avi, we built an agent that would talk to my mom and dad on the phone and it was trained to ask them personalized questions about their life. After each “chapter” was completed a separate agent would write it up Walter Isaacson style for everyone to read so people could follow along as the stories were told. Since then we have been experimenting with new ways to c...

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Brandon Donnelly

The hidden cost of regulatory fat

In the olden days here in Toronto, approved development land used to sell for a premium compared to unapproved land. This was true because approved land meant you could start construction much sooner. And since time has value, this was worth something. Today, this is far less valuable to developers (if at all) because, in most cases, the market does not support new construction. So, the land may be approved, but what does one do with it? Rather than speed, I would say that the most valuable f...

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Hard Mode First

5 Benefits of Thinking Like an Engineer at Work

Adopting an Engineering MindsetOver the past 2 years, I’ve been aggressively leaning AI. While a lot of people might presume that this means I’m simply throwing myself into the newest tools of the day, I’ve found that the bigger benefit has not been about learning new tools — or even the productivity gains. It’s been learning how to think like an engineer. Here are the four core skills that I’ve noticed myself applying more liberally than ever before in my career:Decomposition: Taking a big p...

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Ride It to the Sky

I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens. My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the t...

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Aave V4 Goes Live On Ethereum

Aave V4 is now live for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs. The launch includes a new interface called Aave Pro.

Post cover image

Notes From The Oversky

The Network State Of Mind

As I write these words, sitting across from me is a man worth billions. He’s in a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, and sandals, sipping a three-dollar coffee, no different from mine....

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The Visual Renaissance (and How to Own It)

Back in the MTV days, a "music video" meant a six-figure check, a crew of forty, and three months of post-production hell. Now those types of budgets are quickly ending.

Post cover image

29 Seconds of Farcaster

29 Seconds of Farcaster, March 30, 2026

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? @nickysap released a new Farcaster client with built-in audio spaces | https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xb56d9f83 @unooo.eth is headed in a different direction from Farcaster client to Makechain client. I'd love to explain what that means, but I can't 🤷‍♂ | https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0xc6cb67c2 Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp starts today, who's in? | https://farcaster.xyz/limone.eth/0xc2eef950 Degen NFTs were revealed ... saw some on ...

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Tasklet's Task Computer

Our portfolio company Tasklet is a platform for making agents that do things for you. USV uses it to create agents that automate a lot of work for us. This post, which I mentioned last week, explains how USV uses Tasklet. Recently, Tasklet launched a feature called Task Computer which is a Linux computer in the cloud that can do things for you and automate them. My wife, The Gotham Gal, is using Task Computer to log into her Instagram account, go to her Instagram Collections, and pull out all...

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👁️ The Many Red Flags of OpenAI's Huge Fundraise

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👁️ The Many Red Flags of OpenAI's Huge Fundraise

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets. I’m David Z. Morris, longtime technology and finance reporter, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia. As I put the finishing touches on that book about eight months ago, I wondered how much lasting interest there would be in the FTX fraud. But the book is about the mindset and philosophies of Silicon Valley more than one individual fraud. So today, we dig into what FTX can teach us about OpenAI. Su...

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets. I’m David Z. Morris, longtime technology and finance reporter, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia. As I put the finishing touches on that book about eight months ago, I wondered how much lasting interest there would be in the FTX fraud. But the book is about the mindset and philosophies of Silicon Valley more than one individual fraud. So today, we dig into what FTX can teach us about OpenAI. Su...