"(a lot of work trials + hiring + VERY big anthropic mistake)"
— Paul Graham (@paulg) June 1, 2026
— a founder's breakdown of this month's expenses in an investor update
Pragya Misra, who leads Strategy and Global Affairs for OpenAI in India and was the company's first hire in the country, sits down with Aakrit Vaish at Mumbai Tech Week to unpack OpenAI's India bet and why Codex is changing who gets to build. Two years in, Pragya has had a… pic.twitter.com/On73ush9zu
— Activate (@ActivateSignal) June 1, 2026
We said on the MOONSHOTS podcast that when AI hits 50% on Humanity's Last Exam, that is AGI. Opus 4.8 scored 57.9%. We crossed our own threshold WOW!
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) May 31, 2026
Soichiro Honda's first vehicles were small gasoline engines, originally built to power Japanese army radios, bolted onto bicycle frames.
— Jaynit (@jaynitx) June 1, 2026
He wasn't being clever. It was 1946 and most of Japan was in rubble.
Honda was born in 1906 in a small town near Hamamatsu, the son of a… pic.twitter.com/oQG6OmREBo
Be your self, not someone you were assigned to be!
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) May 31, 2026
Bezos won on time horizon, not AWS or 1-Click.
If your bets have to work in 3 years, you compete with everyone. Every smart, funded team is chasing the same 3-year problems. Short horizon, crowded field.
Stretch to 7 and the…
This is the kind of thing people say when they think we’re about to enter hard times. pic.twitter.com/aa8JS42Bhq
— staysaasy (@staysaasy) May 31, 2026
1/n
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 1, 2026
A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of… https://t.co/r06L3FPt3C
2/ I had a long debate w/D. Kahneman abt digital books. He was excited by the Kindle; I thought it was useless (The Black Swan was shown by Bezos in the Kindle press conf and I was horrified).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 1, 2026
K kept going until I cited the book by Luria on the mnemonist & he ended up conceded as…
I remember the places where I read it, people that I met, coffee stains, paper bookmark that my wife gave me https://t.co/yIMtF6w0ek pic.twitter.com/g7b3FMSnbq
— Dmitriy Olegovich Zagorodnyuk (@xjr358) June 1, 2026
True. And what a lovely library. I aspire to have my own one day - here’s my start: pic.twitter.com/Lk2aUbIntL
— James Vermillion III (@VermillionPW) June 1, 2026
Reading physical books has so many positive effects that you can never get from digital. This book does a great job discussing the neuroscience of reading. https://t.co/xZRNKpxEAD pic.twitter.com/7iBKLKQrqP
— Osman Umarji, PhD (@OsmanUmarji) June 1, 2026
Which is why I prefer to read physical books rather than PDFs. It lightens your pocket but solidifies your mind. Totally worth it, as Nicholas perfectly illustrates! https://t.co/UxY90LOrbl
— Panagiotis G. Pavlos (@PGPavlos) June 1, 2026
The more beautifully crafted the book, the more it enhances the reading experience too. These days I try to get hardbacks where possible, especially for Lindy books where more aesthetic second hands are available https://t.co/UmU2yXIQgO
— Harsha Perera (@harshacoach) June 1, 2026
I spent a couple days in Kashmir speaking with victims and first responders from the 2025 Pahalgam terrorist attack, as well as local leaders, academics, business owners, and workers.
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) June 1, 2026
I saw why they call Kashmir paradise. Stunning landscapes, perfect weather, the Himalayan… pic.twitter.com/yK0qCUD2W2
When it hits you that one of your former San Francisco journalist peers left the industry to co-found a company and is now worth $4B. At least. pic.twitter.com/fTvlOR4eIx
— Christina Farr (@chrissyfarr) June 1, 2026
What a magnificent sight! Thousands of flamingos transforming Navi Mumbai into a sea of pink. ๐ฆฉ๐ฆฉ๐ฆฉ
— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) June 1, 2026
Nature has given us a gift. Our responsibility is to protect the wetlands and ecosystem that bring these graceful visitors here year after year. pic.twitter.com/d9HyMqybDz
Everyone says: hire people better than you, then get out of the way.
— Nicolas Dessaigne (@dessaigne) June 1, 2026
One of my biggest mistakes at Algolia was taking that literally.
Yes, hire people better than you. But don’t confuse seniority with earned trust.
Stay close at first. Inspect the work. Pressure-test the…
700 Years of Life Exposed -
— Damon Zumbroegel (@DamonZumbroegel) June 1, 2026
Walking through Lomanthang, I stumbled upon this building site. Like a cross section of 700 years of life. The stones, the walls, the people, the sounds……have not changed in 700 years. Enjoy stepping back in time and seeing how things were made… pic.twitter.com/6TmW4f4ubA
One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs. I’ve heard from… pic.twitter.com/0MIoYvLIqT
— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) June 1, 2026
Jeff Bezos explains why “wandering” is essential for invention
— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) June 1, 2026
“Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility,” Jeff Bezos begins. “Wandering sounds so inefficient, but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where you’re going.”
Jeff… pic.twitter.com/YOG2EsLHSt
Himalayan Compute: 10 Years To A Trillion: Detailed Roadmaphttps://t.co/mXOAytrnrg
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 1, 2026
"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions."
— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) June 1, 2026
— Paul Graham, How to Do Great Workhttps://t.co/AyIk5fnKZL pic.twitter.com/rJ8ioWoCWT
This needs to be taken to a 1T market valuation. I have the detailed roadmap. Let's talk.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 1, 2026
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2026
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) June 1, 2026
Pending completion of SEC review, this gives us the option to pursue an initial public offering.
Read more: https://t.co/onGZAhRLvD
Thanks to @SebastienBubeck and @yubai01 , OpenAI is rapidly becoming one of the world’s leading departments of theoretical physics, statistics and computer science. This is very exciting!
— Quanquan Gu (@QuanquanGu) May 31, 2026
A weaver bird prepares its nest in the Balkhu area of Kathmandu on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/K8lTFjlGOa
— The Kathmandu Post (@kathmandupost) June 1, 2026
```No Runways.
— Aviator Anil Chopra (@Chopsyturvey) June 1, 2026
No Collision.
No ATC and GPS too.
Next destination a few thousand miles away.
Yet...perfect take off.```
It's a sheer Natural Wonder !!!
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Turning Himalayan Water Into AI Compute https://t.co/fK6S4heFKB @sundarpichai @JeffBezos @sama @gdb @OpenAI @DarioAmodei @DanielaAmodei @AnthropicAI @Oracle @NBIM @NorgesBank @Temasek @peterthiel@PIF_en @QIA @naval @alexavontobel
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 1, 2026
Circa 2010, inside a Yale Law School discussion group focused on social decline in working-class America, a 24-year-old son of Appalachian poverty named JD Vance sat down next to a 24-year-old daughter of Telugu Hindu immigrants from San Diego named Usha Chilukuri, and what… pic.twitter.com/PKwLlJ4Iyz
— The Husky (@Mr_Husky1) June 1, 2026
"I didn’t pick up a girl from that garbage dump. I picked up a diamond."
— KV Iyyer - BHARAT ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@BanCheneProduct) June 1, 2026
This is not a movie story. A real miracle happened in the state of Assam.
Soberan, a 30-year-old man, earned his living by selling vegetables. He was not married yet.
One evening, while returning home… pic.twitter.com/L9LaCbPfqF
