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Nick Grossman

@nickgrossman.eth #168

Partner @USV. Student of cities and the internet. https://nickgrossman.xyz
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Working with focused, dedicated founders is the greatest joy

So proud and excited at the opportunity to work w the @daylight team
So psyched to be working with this team and on this opportunity. Lots to explore here, we are so early
Dune is infrastructure
For episode 2 of The Slow Hunch Podcast, please join me for a conversation with Muneeb Ali, co-founder of /stacks

We'll explore Muneeb's journey of discovery along the idea that /bitcoin can be the foundational protocol for internet-scale applications

https://nickgrossman.xyz/the-slow-hunch-podcast-episode-2-with-muneeb-ali
I think it would be nice if each chart in dune had a description field. For example, I was just looking at this @drakula chart (https://dune.com/queries/3571905/6012367 )and I didn't totally understand what it was showing. I'd love a written description of charts. I think it would also be helpful to have comments which could be used for clarification & followups
Excited to try out my Meta glasses this 4th of July weekend

In particular curious to see how much this freaks people out vs just blending into the background
Writing is indeed composable.

One of my favorite -- and little known -- features on @paragraph is the ability to collect highlights

Here's a collectible quote from @jaredhecht.eth's post today on composable writing, riffing on @fredwilson.eth's post on writing as a conversation

https://opensea.io/collection/writing-is-composable-1
Claiming my /scoop profile with address: 0x871e6034065bA60B256F94400E36f93a568B8C65

let the scoop wars begin 🍦
I’m continually struck by how my 15 yo son is tuned off by ubiquitous computing and the attention it requires

I’m intrigued by lo-fi computing products like Daylight and techless / wisephone. But I’m somewhat skeptical that it can go mainstream

I’m intrigued by products like the meta glasses which somewhat hide the digital interface and don’t require primary attention
I’m really curious to think about whether smart hardware will catch on sooner in business vs consumer

Very hard to compete against Apple google et al in consumer hardware

But I also think the phone as form factor must end at some point

Smart hardware everywhere seems inevitable though, w more and more compute at the edge
This one has been elusive for so long

But feels really close now

Every meeting being recorded and transcribed by AI is a big unlock

But can one tool create a network effect across a team and provide more than just transcriptions? Granola is one tool that seems to stand out here

Will goog or msft just do this?
Another week, another journey through idea land @usv
This was a lot of fun

I have used this slide about crypto/web3 transforming finance and the web from an institutional model to a protocol model for about 6 years now and I always find it to be a useful explanatory tool
Great insights from Bethany here about working up a career in web3. This talk was given to a bunch of Columbia grad students and it felt like such great advice about how to navigate towards a career in a highly emergent space
Realized just this week that I have finally reached the age where I have a "good ear" and a "bad ear" 😡
I really miss the days of having a newsreader (eg google reader) or aggregator (eg Nuzzle) as my starting place for daily content. For a while I was using Feedly for but for some reason I stopped (maybe bad twitter support).

What should I be using? What do people like?
I’m honored to welcome my old friend Fraser Kelton to the first episode of The Slow Hunch Podcast, where we explore the often slow, twisty and unexpected paths that lead to big breakthroughs.

Fraser was head of product at OpenAI leading up to and through the launch of ChatGPT
/AI
Letsgo. Thrilled to be supporting @rish @manan and the @neynar team as they continue to empower developers in the Farcaster and broader onchain social ecosystems. 💪 🛠️ 🚀
I wish you could be more honest in Uber ratings. I feel like the app puts a lot of pressure on you to give a 5, and I feel like anything less than a 5 is likely punitive on the driver, so I always avoid it.

Am I doing it wrong or should I be fully honest?
To quote @nik from this week's team meeting:

"do cows mostly emit methane from burps, or from farts, and does that matter?"

[answer: burps]
so far, code has been created either to be read by machines (binary, compiled code), or by humans

Now, we're starting to merge the two

Tools like cursor are enabling teams to write code in a new way, such that it's human optimized and machine optimized at once

Gonna get weird!
/AI
this one is super interesting to unpack

will decentralized social protocols (FC, lens, bluesky, mastodon, etc) eventually interoperate?

If so, will this be driven first at the client layer, or at the protocol layer?

what does history tell us about the possibilities here?