Auren Hoffman

2005: how did I function without the Internet? 2015: how did I function without the smart phone? 2025: how did I function without the LLM? 2035: ??

Banks take your money and lend it and then give you less than you can get in treasuries as interest. But it is SAFER (& easy) to put your savings in treasuries. if banks are going to lend out ...

World of DaaS podcast is now “Summation” the pod started as a data show but the best episodes were always about other stuff -- geopolitics, talent, venture, longevity. we’re about to hit 100k subs...

spent the weekend in DC hacking away with some insanely talented founders. what an amazing time to be building! https://t.co/2B8Wbd2EEB

you should never have a mtg that you don't spend a good deal of time prepping for. a good rule of thumb is to spend half the time prepping for the mtg as the mtg itself -- so an hour mtg deserves ...

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founding national security startup dealing with very large amounts of data. looking to partner with an amazing cofounder CTO in-person in northern virginia (DC) insane hours mission oriented VC-bac...

most of the best software engineers scored higher on their verbal SAT than their Math SAT and in today's new world of using agents, verbal skills are going to be even more important in coding

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in Britain only 6,000 books were published in the first decade of the eighteenth century; in the last decade of the same century the number of new titles was in excess of 56,000. kinda crazy how pr...

visited the Pentagon last week and was surprised to see so many out-of-shape people there. seemed just like avg america. was hoping to see more superhero-looking people

models today are STILL data starved. all the easy gains from eating the internet and every book ever written are done. now you need expert humans working inside realistic work environments *generat...

60% of EMCLOUD companies were down in 2025 -- and most of them were down a LOT. SP500 return (2025): 17.9% EMCLOUD return (2025): -1.06% and EMCLOUD would have been down a LOT more except for the ...

Phil Jackson's five stages of culture (from @jonsidd) stage 1: "life sucks" stage 2: "my life sucks" stage 3: "i'm great, you're not" stage 4: "we're great, you're not" stage 5: "life is great" — i...

some of the biggest saas companies right now are fighting AI — not allowing agents to interact, staying away from MCP, etc. might shore up revenue short term. will hurt them immensely long term. ...

new episode with @turingcom CEO @jonsidd. Turing trains models for openai, anthropic, google and meta we talked about: 🤖 automating the $30 trillion global knowledge market 📈 why enterprise AI has...

sometimes you use a product that is so easy to use that you just marvel at the UX. for me, that's Daffy. it is a simple product making it really easy to give money to charity through a super sim...

average time to connect to United wifi: 8 minutes. should be less than 8 seconds.

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