AI

This post was originally published on the XMTP blog. I've been thinking about this idea forever. I'd love to know if this resonates with you or if you're feeling this now, too. In 2004, Clay Shirky stood in front of his Social Software class

I need to talk about something I don't see anyone talking about. And I think it might be the most important question of this entire era. We're all so busy celebrating how fast AI makes us move that nobody's asking where the hell we&

The Base App is officially live to the world. Base App isn’t just another crypto app. It’s a social and economic Superapp where you can create, earn, trade, and discover—all inside DMs and group chats. Chat is not just a feature but a foundation for users to

Every major messaging system still assumes you can trust a username, a voice, or a video. AI has made that assumption obsolete. Today, that changes. World has integrated XMTP to create World Chat, the first messaging network built on proof of human and decentralized, quantum-resistant encryption. For the first

Every year, a16z puts out its Big Ideas List. It's 17 things that various a16z crypto partners (plus a few guest contributors) observe about what’s ahead. I was lucky to be included this year. Check out the whole list here and read my Big Idea below. As

The experience I had on Base App this morning reminded me of some of my first mobile experiences back in the day. In 2010, people laughed at the idea of trading stocks on your phone. Too clunky. Too risky. Not Serious. Real investors used real terminals. Then mobile-native apps

"How are you going to protect from spam?" is the first question people ask. "Are you going to let brands 'pay-to-reach' people on XMTP?" is the second. I've thought about these questions a lot. Building a network that protects the

I love full self-driving (FSD). It's up there with the iPhone for me. I never realized how much of my brain I used to spend just driving. Staying between the lines, checking maps, knowing where to turn, watching other drivers, checking mirrors, stop-go stop-go stop-

Here's a rambling of thoughts that I've been thinking about for a while, just observing and listening to how people use the internet... Prompts are replacing posts. A prompt makes a video. A song. An agent. Soon, an entire app. Prompts are becoming the new content

What if the next innovation in AI isn't about what exists, it's about what doesn't exist? What if it’s not about crunching more data, it’s about being able to create something without any data?  This question has been burning in my brain

Sometimes you get an email that you want to share with everyone. That's the email I got from Grace Meyer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-meyer-25b048164/], student at the University of Auckland. She decided to review our interview for her college course requirement. > "One

Machine Yearning [https://medium.com/assist/dreaming-about-the-machine-3d778494e848] posts its fourth episode this week, and already we’re breaking our format. We approach the podcast like everything in life: stay rigid, get stuck, nothing but problems follow… We’ve used this podcast to jump start conversations about

Introducing Machine Yearning, our new podcast In a world where no one is the expert and where everyone, even if they don’t want to let on, is scrambling to figure it out — why not come clean and get real? That’s the point behind Machine Yearning, our new podcast.