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Listening now. ... Do you invest? You missed Facebook. Don't miss this. AI-Era Social Network: The Facebook Killer That Looks Nothing Like Facebook https://t.co/ZCi1DP9qIb
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

Ron Conway

“With all due respect, Elon is terribly wrong about the one big beautiful bill.” - Mike Johnson

The girls are fighting!

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— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) June 3, 2025

The 20% Growth Revolution: Nepal’s Path to Prosperity Through Kalkiism
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
Formula For Peace In Ukraine
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Prompts Are Thoughts 🧵👇
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

AI Agents and the Future of Ad‑Revenue Businesses
Trump’s Tariffs Are Slowing Down US And Global Economy, OECD Says
Major NATO nation reveals huge plan to prepare for war in Europe with Putin
Opinion: Trump’s tariff tantrum risks a global depression
Poll Signals Major Shift for Democrats

Econ 101. No surprise there. Also, Con 101.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

NY Tech Week. A magical time when VCs fly to NYC… to network with other VCs who also flew to NYC.
— Hadley (@Hadley) June 3, 2025

Pre-seed has truly gone insane.

I was pitched two SAFE rounds without a valuation cap last week. (lol)

Who does these rounds??
— Hubert Thieblot (@hthieblot) June 2, 2025

I love nyc.
— Molly O’Shea (@MollySOShea) June 2, 2025

What's next?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

I am begging you, anyone, please use my email history to understand my taste / budget via a decade of restaurant, hotel, and travel reservations, and create a personalized travel search + itinerary product with agentic booking + payment.

Thank you.
— Cole Rotman (@ColeRotman) June 2, 2025

Life hack 101:

Become completely addicted to improving yourself.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) June 2, 2025

What happened? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

Boy, if you’re not a fan of AI I recommend NOT visiting San Francisco.

Everything is AI.

I’m grabbing a late lunch and the people beside me a yapping about vector embeddings.

Next level.
— John-Daniel Trask (@traskjd) June 2, 2025

I've been using prompts of otters as a test of AI ability.

It has taken less than three years to go from a text prompt producing images of abstract masses of fur to producing realistic videos with sound (including "like the musical Cats but for otters”). https://t.co/heqLkyBS6U pic.twitter.com/CG4OX0BPLZ
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) June 2, 2025

Invest in my Facebook killer. AI-Era Social Network: The Facebook Killer That Looks Nothing Like Facebook https://t.co/ZCi1DP8SSD
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

― Kahlil Gibran
— Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi) June 2, 2025

Long-lasting high-satisfaction marriages have two traits:

High commitment: the elimination of alternatives

Low expectations: decreasing your demands of others

When you’ve got no other options, and you get more than you wanted, you won.
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) June 2, 2025

What about work? High expectations? High commitment? Rapid iteration?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

It’s tech week every week in San Francisco https://t.co/M1neb0xHrO
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) June 2, 2025

big discussion in the @every discord today:

what do you do with yourself while your agents are running? pic.twitter.com/jVTw5IUIga
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) June 2, 2025

Sam Altman explains how he decides to invest in a startup after 10 minutes

Y Combinator accepts or rejects a company after just a 10 minute interview.

Sam admits he didn’t think you’d be able to do much better than random with only 10 minutes, but he doesn’t think that’s true… pic.twitter.com/4Ng4ukc7Kc
— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) June 2, 2025

Sometimes people say that even if all AI progress totally stopped, the systems of today would still be economically transformative.

I disagree. The reason that the Fortune 500 aren’t using LLMs to transform their workflows isn’t because the management is too stodgy.

Rather,… https://t.co/7iwv1IZvEH
— Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) June 2, 2025

Invest. AI-Era Social Network: The Facebook Killer That Looks Nothing Like Facebook https://t.co/ZCi1DP9qIb
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

No one has it figured out. And if you did, it would make life suck.

The emotional win comes from not knowing it’s gonna work - then - it working. Not it working on its own.
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) June 2, 2025

Opting to remain single is a losing strategy.
— Craig Weiss (@craigzLiszt) June 2, 2025

Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics
The Next Decade of Biotech: Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement
ChatGPT For Business: A Workbook
Becoming an AI-First Organization
Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

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Ask harder questions. Read better books. Follow sharper minds. Act bolder. Then watch what happens.
— Wealth Director (@wealth_director) June 2, 2025

gemini 2.5 pro is a better (higher quality) japanese to english translator than the vast majority (99.9999%) of people who do it as a career. also multiple orders of magnitude cheaper and faster

i dont understand the "agi isn't here" crowd
— Air Katakana (@airkatakana) June 1, 2025

AI models currently have a 50% chance of doing something that takes a human expert one hour.

This doubles every 7 months.

In 2 years? They could automate full workdays. In 4 years? A full month.

I discuss the most important graph in AI today with Beth Barnes, the CEO of METR,… pic.twitter.com/IRshpHhbpG
— Rob Wiblin (@robertwiblin) June 2, 2025

The discrimination asians face in US college admissions is insane. I had...

* 35 ACT
* 15 APs
* Canadian Math Olympiad Invitee, Waterloo Competition National Gold
* District Student Council President
* Starting 2-Guard on Varsity Team
* An engineering internship
+ shit tons of… https://t.co/oFVLcPm3Q1
— Johnathan Bi (@JohnathanBi) June 2, 2025

seriously what prevents Apple from painting the power unit in black? this is literally against their design philosophy pic.twitter.com/3gOrZEgZlL
— kate (@whoiskatrin) June 2, 2025

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Gold.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

Invest. AI-Era Social Network: The Facebook Killer That Looks Nothing Like Facebook https://t.co/ZCi1DP8SSD
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

I used to be impressed by:

• Cars
• Boats
• Houses
• Watches
• Fine Dining

Now, I'm impressed by:

• Fun
• Family
• Fitness
• Freedom
• Fulfillment
— Clint Murphy (@IAmClintMurphy) June 2, 2025

frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards pic.twitter.com/709kdwAhh3
— anu (@anuatluru) June 2, 2025

Very important point by @ianbremmer : weaker countries take Trump seriously, strong nations look him in the eye. Where does India stand? Listen in: https://t.co/vt8v9xBLrH
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) June 2, 2025

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Polygon is becoming the rails for digital payments. Fast, cheap, reliable.

Crypto needs to feel invisible for the next billion users, and that’s exactly what’s happening.

Our April stablecoin numbers say it all:

$134B transfer volume (+33% mo/mo)
$2B supply (+8%)
68x velocity…
— Sandeep | Polygon (※,※) (@sandeepnailwal) June 2, 2025

Guess what…if you never ask, you still get rejected.
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) June 2, 2025

Thread: The central challenge Lincoln saw is whether any nation conceived in & dedicated to abstract ideas "can long endure." That nations are a homeland, with culture, history, land is not a novel claim. That is the story of every nation. But America is different, says Lincoln.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) June 2, 2025

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In response to journalists’ questions, I emphasised that yesterday, Ukraine carried out a brilliant operation, planned and executed independently by our side. Ukraine is making it clear: we are not going to surrender, and we will not accept any ultimatums. But we do not want war.…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 2, 2025

I told ⁦@Boris_Sanchez⁩ @CNN today: Doubling steel tariffs to 50% is a quintessentially damaging policy. This is a ready, fire, aim kind of policy. It doesn’t follow from any coherent economic logic. https://t.co/aMSbp1OZAx
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) June 3, 2025

We’re a red state, not a state of red tape. pic.twitter.com/IomS2xMULQ
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) June 2, 2025

That is already true. Fill out your profile fully. And the kind of content you will most interact with is the content you will mostly see. Except Elon Musk tweets. He shows up unannounced.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

The wildest AI takes are "it's not good enough yet" or "it can't do X well."

This completely ignores the exponential improvement curve we're on.

If you don't believe every aspect of digital work will reach human-level quality soon, you're setting yourself up for failure.…
— Furqan Rydhan (@FurqanR) June 2, 2025

Amodei says he feels a responsibility to raise alarms about AI’s labor impact, even while helping to build the technology.

He believes the benefits of AI can be huge—but only if we also work to prevent serious harm.

With only a few companies leading development, he adds that… pic.twitter.com/1LnyTijPIq
— Wes Roth (@WesRothMoney) June 2, 2025

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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood. pic.twitter.com/40CalPlNhY
— Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow) June 2, 2025

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Perplexity Labs officially replaces (almost) all experts

Mood board, McKinsey slide deck, landing page... One prompt every time

9 concrete AI use cases (+prompts): pic.twitter.com/P3HMhKeC4M
— Florian Camiade 🗝️ (@FCamiade) June 2, 2025

Steve Bannon would call you a "globalist."
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

Did you know suing US journos from the appropriate foreign jurisdiction means they’re much more likely to lose?

It’s true. The Atlantic had to publish 16 corrections to a single article to avoid getting hit with a default judgment in Japan. pic.twitter.com/zyBxa8sEXM
— Balaji (@balajis) June 3, 2025

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Building many failed products is the price of a successful one

You simply can’t learn if you don’t try
— Hunter Isaacson (@hunterjisaacson) June 3, 2025

Always carry yourself like your life matters. Because it does. Stand tall. Walk with confidence. Make eye contact. Take care of your body and mind. Be present. Listen closely. Speak with intention. Bet on yourself. If you do that, the world will start bending to your will.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 3, 2025

ChatGPT for utilizing the context in your Google Drive: https://t.co/Vqqh2HBxhG
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) June 3, 2025

How do you feed Google Drive to ChatGPT? @beglen
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 3, 2025

Gemini can do it without taking a week
— bone (@boneGPT) June 3, 2025

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Public notebooks are one of those small step/giant leap features for @NotebookLM. You can now use the app as a publishing platform for all kinds of knowledge:

+ complete manuals for your company's products
+ curator's commentary and images for a museum exhibit
+ full text of… https://t.co/e0oPV6KlLU
— Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) June 3, 2025

Civilization is constant maintenance
— Nat Friedman (@natfriedman) June 3, 2025

At today’s prices, that’s about 17 homes. https://t.co/jM4zUs5sXY
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) June 2, 2025

"The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence.

It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task."

I argue that LLMs currently lack this fundamental capability https://t.co/7iwv1IYXP9
— Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) June 3, 2025

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Prompts Are Thoughts: An Essay

In the age of artificial intelligence, the simple word “prompt” has taken on profound philosophical and practical significance. Once relegated to the realm of cues and triggers—“prompt someone to act” or “a writing prompt”—the prompt has evolved into something much more: a distilled expression of human thought, intent, curiosity, and imagination. In fact, prompts are thoughts—compressed, purposeful, and often crystallized in ways that reveal as much about the thinker as they do about the content.

The Prompt as a Mirror of Mind

A prompt is the meeting point of language and cognition. It encodes a thought into a form that can be transmitted, interpreted, and acted upon—by a person, or now, increasingly, by a machine. When we prompt an AI, we are, in essence, revealing the inner workings of our mind in condensed form. The choice of words, the structure of the sentence, even the tone—each of these communicates our mindset, perspective, and underlying assumptions.

Much like a journal entry or a prayer, a prompt is a reflection of mental state. A question like “How do I become more confident?” reveals both a desire and a perceived lack. A prompt like “Write a poem about a clock that stops time” shows imagination, curiosity, and an artistic sensibility. Prompts, then, are windows into the soul.

Thought, Compressed into Action

In a world increasingly mediated by AI tools, the prompt becomes not just an expression of thought but a lever of power. A well-phrased prompt can unlock insight, generate art, solve equations, or simulate a conversation with a historical figure. The prompt is the new syntax of action—the new interface between thought and result.

It compresses abstract ideas into executable commands. It forces clarity. In fact, crafting a prompt is often the act of refining a vague mental swirl into a precise intent. And in doing so, we train our minds to think more clearly. Prompts are not just thoughts; they are thoughts sharpened into tools.

Prompts and the Future of Communication

As generative AI continues to grow in capability, the importance of prompting will only increase. We will teach children not just to write essays, but to write prompts. Prompt engineering may become a form of digital rhetoric—a way of persuading or instructing machines with elegance and precision. And with this will come new literacies: how to structure thoughts, how to translate intentions, how to converse with the non-human.

In this way, prompts might one day become the most basic unit of communication in the AI-human symbiosis. Like chemical reactions in a lab, they are small inputs that produce extraordinary outcomes. And those who can think in prompts—succinct, structured, strategic—will be the thinkers of the next era.

Conclusion: The Thoughtful Prompt

To say that prompts are thoughts is not merely a poetic idea—it is a recognition of a shift in how humans relate to knowledge, technology, and creativity. Just as the written word preserved human memory, and the printed book spread human culture, the prompt channels human cognition into dynamic, interactive forms. Every prompt carries within it a piece of the thinker’s mind.

In the age of AI, our thoughts are no longer bound by internal monologue or idle rumination. They are cast into the world, encoded as prompts, and met with response—dialogue, code, poem, plan. Prompts are thoughts not just in essence, but in action.

And perhaps the future belongs not to those with all the answers, but to those who know how to ask.

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Tuesday, June 03, 2025

3: Ron Conway

Prompts Are Thoughts

The Prompt as a Mirror of Mind

Thought, Compressed into Action

Prompts and the Future of Communication

Conclusion: The Thoughtful Prompt