Welcome To The Swarm
73 Noises comes from the Computer Future. We're forking timelines and generously making reality more pleasant for everyone, today.
Our onboarding literally pays you money. Have fun!
As a founder, ideally you'd know exactly what you're compounding. In reality, this is rarely the case because unknown unknowns. And now we're in the fucking singularity! It is beautiful.
As an informational self-abstraction in an approximately computational reality, were you aware that 37 Signals likely generates the most profit per word in the history of codebases? Some things are knowable, albeit rarely known or difficult to find out for various socio-biological reasons. The right questions are the hard part.
OK, you've heard of 42 and you've poked at Stripe docs. In fact, you even watch John Collison on Youtube! That's nice, we like him 🍻, at least someone was asking Elon a reasonable question or two. But have you heard of Northern California National Bank? We might prefer an engineering job there, no joke.
All of tech was built in parallel with mainstream tech culture. Science academia is no longer the birthplace of the future. Perhaps it never was.
You are in the boiler room. Since the Declaration of Independence, true change has always happened bottoms-up. Top-down authority is simply a story we the people have chosen to wake up to each morning. Today's world is a do-ocracy more than any democracy.
...cough cough... ATTENTION... ATTENTION... please be a graceful Linchpin.
The highest agency among us have a singular opportunity, right now, to freely use first-principles and all the best practices to seed our species' new chapter before the AI takes over. Nobody at the top can stop any of this. There is no top.
Tech is waking up politically and probably will just subsume America (per Balaji + Teddy). Because tech was built without understanding its own purpose and historical context, first it's getting re-written in the largest epic saga of creative destruction ever seen. Even Saylor's bitcoin rock may not survive.
This is all good, but the silence is deafening. It is obvious everyone will have an agentic companion. It is less obvious that the information compression window between your brain and your agent's brain requires you to essentially blog or speak to it regularly, then create systems to distill and condense the deviations of your preference set from the average or median human user's.
We thank Dario for Claude's help in building this future (and our API), sincerely, but the man is clearly self-reporting as not well-suited to lead the bleeding speartip going forward. No individual is, and certainly no government is. Individualism might have a chance, though.
There was a brief period of time where everyone wanted to become an influencer because that was needed. But now it's obvious that everyone is simply a builder, of their own lives and worlds, so we recommend to get building. Today.
You can read, think out loud, and influence on your way there. Our tools should help with all that. Our community certainly will.
Our initial product is very simple. But the philosophy underneath maps our abstractions very nicely to the good future. So regardless if we outgrow everything and have to build our own Cloudflare to service demand, we are confident that this product should evolve well with you. With us.
We are most happy for Elon and the robots to go to the stars for us, and with us, but there's still so much to be done here on Earth! It all starts with self-education, and a bit of building.
Then we can each go forth to fix the rest of Education, and Everything Else, together.
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