quit whining, flip the script - take the AI's job

Warpcast

There are really wonderful people on this platform and I am thankful for them and this place.

LGHT

selfishly speaking:

higher is a psyop was about both a pragmatic optimism psyop & the idea of decentralized psyops themselves 

decentralized is such a weird word now, intent here is “you can just psyop” 

but even more so, “you are always in psyops” 

higher hopefully showed would-be michelin star psyop chefs (that would use their powers for good) - that you can spread memetic virtue on the digital substrate relatively effortlessly 

there are some core ingredients you just must have as well

reminds me of the stewart brand quote: 

"we are as gods and might as well get good at it"

If you had $50k of dry powder, how would you sprinkle? 

The best answer gets $25.

NFA!

you can think the tariffs are stupid and still be happy

happiness is a choice

Imagine the Balaji hyperbitcoinization thing ends up real and he was just a year early

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1347742354740891648

I'm live on FC Audio Chat!

come hang out

Bullposting BTC vs stonks is risky (it could tank tomorrow) but also constructive since BTC is a coordination-driven reflexive asset where the price is the fundamental. So you can meme it's hardness into existence. Shill, my friends.

brypto

believe it or not

i actually think there are not enough memecoins/tokens

i agree with this take

saying "there are too many meme coins" is like saying "there are too many ideas"

neither of those statements are true

the more accurate statement is "there are too many mindless meme coins, and we need more mindful ones"

Obsidian

what's your favorite obsidian plugin?

haven't gone down that rabbithole and i'm sure i'm missing some great AI tools to add to my vault

(bonus points if you can find me a "cursor composer" style plugin)

PRESTO LABS INC

Founders

subtractor and speculator // /thrive-higher // /basehit // /dark-ops // /geiger-records

We used to fall in love with the process, now we fall into the algorithm.

Technology made it easier to create, but ease came with a price: we lost intimacy with our craft.

When metrics matter more than meaning, we become estranged from what we make.

Choose process over performance. Craft over clout.

community building is more about the soft skill of connection than it is about hitting some growth metric

i think as the world becomes more AI-dominated and algorithmic feeds control most of what we consume, the real value comes from connecting with like-minded people and sharing ownership in the networks you create together

this is why i'm building /presto

Lessons from working on emerging tech and to some extent relying on another platform succeeding (like some of you building a co that's betting on FC):

You're more than likely too early. But that doesn't mean there aren't users and valuable problems to solve.

Your arbitrage is being early to solve hard problems. When you're this early "a better user experience" can't be your moat. 

You have a head start to solve the hard problems people shy away from and new entrants will need to grapple with to catch up. Whether it's speed, cryptography, indexing, etc. 

Take the time to solve some of the hard engineering while you can. Because you're not racing to a billion users here (yet). 

And this stuff compounds. If you need to pivot and have a lightning fast indexer for example you can build a better X than most people.

Oh and it goes without saying: to execute this playbook you need to stay alive. Don't die. Manage your financial and emotional runway.

great lessons for founders on the frontier

untz untz

ATTN FarCon untzersssss 🪩 🪩 🪩 🪩

Cassian on May 2 is sold out but I have 3 extra tickets!! DC if you were looking for one :)

if you wanna come see cassian with us during farcon, emma has 3 extra tickets to the sold out show!

shoot her a DC if you wanna join us - we've got a great group shaping up

AI doesn't need more intelligence

it needs more humanity

the future belongs to those who build their own micro-economies

Conversational agents seem like a great distribution hack. They distribute themselves in the feed, and they are easy to port to other platforms that promise even more eyeballs. But most of them have a problem: they are antisocial!

My relationship to most agents is 1 to 1: it's just me and the bot yapping back and forth. This is solipsistic, not social. Now that the novelty of in feed agents has worn off, this is not interesting content for a social network. What was the last bot thread you read in any depth?

The distinguishing feature of social networks is the social graph, and interactions between humans are much stickier than interactions with bots. If your agent isn't social by design, the extra distribution isn't worth much.

i’ve long believed the killer feature of social agents is their personality - just like any other account on a social network

the more people that know it and interact with it, the more valuable of a participant it becomes in the ecosystem

that’s what we're trying to build at /presto 

give every community an AI intern that builds their audience and compounds their wealth

who is the single best engineer you know?

i'm hiring full-stack engineers at /presto 

we believe:
1. creators should capture the value they create
2. ai agents as community builders are underrated
3. tokens are the best way to align value creation + capture

if this resonates with you, shoot me a DC :)

some awesome recs so far!

thanks to everyone who reached out :)

wanna cook on AI + crypto tools? hmu!

Daimo Pay. Build once, distribute everywhere

anyone connected with @dcposch.eth?

we're planning to use daimo pay for /presto agents and having trouble getting an account set up

Most people only need one big win

The more shots on goal, the broader the surface area for luck to strike

Even if one attempt fails, the key is to have a throughline that compounds and increases the probability that the next shot is the one that hits

Keep building

Zach

@zd