introducing friend. not imaginary. order now at friend.com

A good haircut

Mark Zuckerberg has either acquired or copied every social network that’s ever existed

Zucc’s real flex is how much time he spends with his family, despite hitting over 30 million user signups this morning

I always show people this tattoo and if they don’t recognize it I stop talking to them

Thinking in Systems is the best book I’ve read all year. Feels like I gained 10 IQ points just by opening it. Having clarity over how the world works is essential for anyone trying to do anything worthwhile.

Apple just murdered all those nfc contact business cards

The best way to appreciate Apple products is to try and build something yourself. They curve the fucking usbc port. They curve the fucking usbc port

Probably the best $1m I’ll ever spend

a microsd terabyte for $62… this is the most based thing we’ve ever done as a civilization

So Elon bulldozed Sam’s political attempts, has first access to the new nvidia GPUs (and already has the biggest cluster), is tying up OpenAI’s move to for-profit in court, and owns all the real world context streams (X, Humanoids, Cars). How does Sam win here?

Ross on Rogan is going to be insane

My (in my opinion awful) personal statement that got me into Harvard

Rip this election

This is still the most influential non fiction book I’ve ever read. I think this way for every problem big or small now

this is what happens when your CEO has the company’s logo tattooed on them

perfect place for a Walmart

I would pay so much money for a single service that completely handled my basic needs so I could focus * laundry * 3x/day meal prep * personal trainer * cleaner * therapist turn my house into a monastery. this should be VC value add

Spend your last pre-AGI months wisely

we just successfully sent a text message to a friend 500ft~ away while on airplane mode

what is zucc planning…

Largest NYC subway campaign ever Happening now

the first time our offline messaging app successfully worked vibes were peak

this is the reason tech gets a bad rap. please think before you build.🤦‍♂️

I live in San Francisco, but I spent many hours walking all over nyc these past few days SF is beyond disgusting in comparison. It reminds me of Athens, one of the worst places I’ve ever been. Violent drugged out homeless people liter the streets *everywhere*, drugs are sold openly & are all over the ground, most stores are boarded up (have you seen the safeways??). it generally feels unclean in SF, like a layer of grime over everything. we literally have a poop map, I’ve seen people shit on the steps of churches. Remember, 8m+ people live in NYC, and tbh it’s generally very clean & orderly. Of course you have the occasional crackhead, piss and garbage, and car bomb, but I’ve consistently felt safe and clean. What an embarrassment when you get the chance to compare

Microsoft has never made a good product. Windows is absolutely dogshit - its only use case is to play video games but even then just get a playstation. Github is kinda cool but they didn't make that. HoloLens sucked. At one point, Microsoft did sponsor me and sent me their best laptop + headphones. They fucking sucked. Also who uses Azure?

as a 22 y/o it's weird to have a president that feels proud to be American, whether you agree with him or not my only perception of Obama is that he was good at giving speeches, is known for bombing children, named healthcare after himself, and was on hour of code posters in my middle school. Biden never existed.

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My kids will see this picture in this social studies class

I just built the world’s most personal wearable AI! You can talk to Tab about anything in your life. Our computers are now our creative partners!

College will exist for as long as 18-23 year olds have no idea what to do with their lives

As I said before, dating apps are for unambitious people. If you just do stuff, more people fall into your life than you can deal with

I am extremely excited to announce that I will be attending Harvard this fall, thank you to everyone for making this a reality! 🥳

this is going to ruin the tour

Oppenheimer in 70mm film was the most immersive theatre experience I’ve ever, and will ever have. Go see it

AR/VR won't work till we directly hijack the optic nerve. People just don't want to wear headsets

We’ll get one into your hands. Looking forward to a positive review ;)

Gemini beats GPT-4 it’s still 2023

Airbnb is such an inconsistent ordeal. hotels are 100% better & you will realize this once you have to find a luggage storage after checking out an airbnb

Sam only joined Microsoft because he believes in a path to succeed Satya as CEO he’s too power hungry otherwise, this is the real shot

this is honestly the craziest paper I've seen in a while

The only real way for US startups to compete with china is on taste. I ain’t ever see a Chinese product that didn’t feel temu

none of this is real work

Wow she’s an amazing actress

this is the most impressive sora ai generation. all the physics interactions

Idk why nobody talks about it but mobbin is the only real design inspiration site. They have high res screenshots of every possible screen on all the popular apps. It’s the only design tool I pay for I’m sharing this alpha in the hopes it reduces the amount of slop I have to see

how do you watch this and still pay your taxes

you work for my investor lol

We’re (@internetactvsm) building an emergency messaging app that allows you to text offline — for use during internet shutdowns, communication outage due to natural disasters, etc. Via Bluetooth, messages can hop across phones, effectively covering entire regions with a “mesh network.” We’re developing this in partnership with the leading Bluetooth mesh networking developers, ensuring security & scaleability. Excited to share more in the coming weeks, this is all part of InternetActivism’s long term mission to develop a suite of digital humanitarian tools! InternetActivism.org

Btw if you’re looking to get into industrial design I wouldn’t start anywhere else except Jony Ive’s biography. He’s the designer behind the iMac, ios7, iPod, iPhone, AirPods, Watch, etc, but the book goes into what about his skills allowed him to get that position, and the emotional basics behind a good design that you won’t necessarily find in a textbook, like fidget factor. It also goes into depth about more advanced concepts of ID, like genuine manufacturing advancements that Apple forced such as the MacBook unibody design. Jony really cared about ID. I think learning what goes into making everyday objects makes you appreciate it more, and even if you’re not designing a product, which is why I read it, I’d read it just to enjoy earth more.

The new Nest Thermostat looks beautiful. I have a soft spot for Nest because the same industrial designer worked on Friend.

that’s definitely how you start a book

hello, friend

Announcing Tab’s $1.9m Seed. Story by @ctrlzee fastcompany.com/91007630/avi…

Crypto is objectively the worst industry of all time

Nice, probably cost more than $1.8m

Taught myself iOS dev and SwiftUI over a weekend with ChatGPT & now using Cursor to successfully build an entire app for my startup. Can't think of any other tool that's upgraded my human capabilities as much as GPT4. All you need to build the future is motivation.

Fuck “make something people want”, just make what you want. Otherwise you’ll burn out eventually anyways

My thoughts on Humane–as the other "wearable AI" founder: FORM FACTOR Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues: · Choosing daily where to place a pin results in decision fatigue, and it's frustrating to fiddle with multiple pieces when you constantly take clothes on/off. · You wear it all day so the battery weight needs to be comfortable. Pins/Clips pull on your clothing, in their demo you can even see it sagging Imran’s heavyweight shirt. · It has to look socially acceptable so it must look like traditional accessories. But who wears a pin? While the design looks nice, it stands out too much. · You wear it outside so it needs to withstand the elements and be easily hidden. Again making you fiddle with the attachments as soon as it starts raining. All in all, Humane severely breaks the MAYA principle, which is often the main reason why breakthrough products fail. From my testing, an amulet style necklace is the only right way to go for an AI wearable. UTILITY Apple beat Blackberry not because of the interface but because the underlying customer experience was significantly more useful. A phone, an internet navigator, and a music player are all high value breakthrough products on their own. The Humane Pin is grasping at straws by looking at almonds and telling you what direction the eclipse is in — things that are not 10x upgrades to daily human existence wrapped up into a form factor and experience that is subpar. I believe the focus of AI wearables should instead be on passively collecting personal context of the wearer to feed into applications such as a proactive AI companion accessed via your phone. Simple, well executed, low cost AI wearables in conjunction with the smartphone will be able to replicate most of if not all Humane’s features without the user having to buy into a new ecosystem. This is not to say the ai Pin isn't elegant in software & hardware, but it doesn't mean that it'll win over lightweight solutions added to existing mobile platforms. But only the market decides. See you there next year 🫡

I am now 18!!

A Christopher Nolan directed Star Wars would be insane

Largest tech campaign in LA’s history 307 billboards 160 buses 500 bus shelters $500,000

never gets old

honestly im just surprised anything works at all

Honestly even thinking about it in the first place And yea this would be custom

Tab is funded!! 🥳 Thank you to all my investors. World domination incoming

what a hard job

Bring back a culture of innovation not entrepreneurship

question on everyone’s mind now that the sama stuff is basically dealt with: what did Ilya see?

friend.com has 5.1k backlinks already. yes it was worth 1.8m

can't get this out of my head every time I use Claude now. If only Anthropic understood branding...

📢 Today @marcowaves and I are launching UkraineTakeShelter.com 🇺🇦, an independent platform connecting Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts in neighboring countries. This site is a public bulletin — we encourage everyone with space to post and share their listing.

very well ;)

I voted for the first time 🥳

Elon is on track to be the first emperor of our solar system. He already controls the most powerful government on Earth, and is the only one with the money, spaceships, and robots to conquer Mars. All the women in my life hate him

It’s interesting how Twitter has a couple hundred million users & Meta products have like 5 billion but absolutely nothing comes out of them?

uh oh...

I raw dog the internet. I use Safari. I don't use any plugins. I manually schedule meetings on Google Calendar. I use the gmail client. And yet I've built some of the biggest websites of all time and am running an ambitious AI startup. Productivity SaaS just slows you down.

this is the worst ad I have ever seen

girl . friend . com Valentine’s Day Special

“Applications” only exist because most people can’t code. Perhaps a solely natural language computer interface will abstract this.

ONE MILLION USERS!!! UkraineTakeShelter.com

lol Shark Tank just hit me up would probably be fun but I'm not a circus animal

What's it like to build a friend?

11,000+ car cards 1,000+ platform posters 130 urban panels West 4th St. domination 100% print. all 5 boroughs

Minecraft was good immediately lmao stfu

we have entered a fundamentally different world VR is cool & polished now. people will wirehead on the subway, school, airplane...

point made

web browser is the ultimate app for me. I go to Gmail dot com, google calendar on the web too, Claude dot ai, x dot com, etc The real super app

shipped!

call me Oppenheimer

thanks friend

I’d kill myself if I had to work on any of these ideas

I think it’s terrible because it wasn’t very “personal growth” arc-y & definitely written by an 18 year old. I am aware ending the essay with a SJ quote is what it is, but hey they let me in anyways

Zuck really did it huh. He managed to create the android of the next tech platform

I made a website to track the #blacklifematters protests around the United States! Check it out here: 2020protests.com/, let me know if there are any bugs and new features to add! Hope it helps people!

I caught covid and am currently quarantined at my families cabin. The first few days were like a bad cold, headache etc, that has subsided but now I have a bit of a shortness of breath and a cough. I can finally add myself to my site ;)

a16z new value prop is that they’ll lobby the government for you

That’s how I’m reading your tweet