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Friday, June 06, 2025

Twitter: The Digital Water Cooler Where Innovation Happens

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Twitter: The Digital Water Cooler Where Innovation Happens

Steve Jobs once famously said, “Creativity is just connecting things.” He believed that the serendipity of human interaction—especially the kind that happens at random, like bumping into someone at a water cooler—was the secret sauce of innovation. This was one reason Apple’s original office spaces were intentionally designed to foster unexpected collisions. Now, in a world where many of us work remotely or asynchronously, where is that water cooler today?

It’s Twitter.

Yes, Twitter—with all its chaos, wit, hot takes, and rabbit holes—is the global, digital water cooler of our time. It is the place where people from wildly different industries, cultures, and ideologies bump into each other through threads, replies, memes, and DMs. And just like at Jobs’ metaphorical water cooler, it is at these intersections that innovation begins.

Collision Breeds Creativity

On Twitter, a founder in Nairobi can stumble across a data scientist in Berlin. A product designer in Tokyo can debate UI trends with a blockchain engineer in Buenos Aires. A 17-year-old high schooler can pitch an idea that gets picked up by a VC following a niche hashtag. These are not hypotheticals—this is Twitter’s magic in motion.

It’s not just about consuming content—it’s about connecting brains across time zones. The randomness is the point. You don’t walk into Twitter with a 10-point networking plan. You just show up and engage, and sometimes, what emerges is an idea, a movement, a collaboration, or a startup.

The Platform of Ideas, Not Just Opinions

Yes, Twitter is messy. Yes, it can be noisy. But within that noise, the smartest minds of every domain are talking in public. And when they collide—when an economist meets a designer, when a climate scientist trades ideas with a gamer, when a venture capitalist jokes with a meme creator—something new is born. These moments would never happen in siloed conference rooms or echo chambers.

Twitter is not a replacement for deep focus or long-form thought. But it is a perfect trigger for that first spark. That tweet you saw while doomscrolling at midnight? It might be the beginning of your next company, research paper, or book.

The Serendipity Engine

Jobs wanted a physical layout that maximized chance encounters. Twitter is that layout, scaled to the planet. The more time you spend participating thoughtfully, the more nodes of connection you light up. It is the serendipity engine of the modern age—algorithmic, chaotic, and brilliant.

In a digital world increasingly obsessed with optimization, Twitter remains gloriously unpredictable. And in that unpredictability lies its greatest strength: it is where minds meet by accident, and from those accidents, innovation happens.

Welcome to the new water cooler. It's open 24/7.

important post from joanne: https://t.co/dXMFxFVGmD
— Sam Altman (@sama) June 6, 2025

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Steve Jobs once said the secret to creativity is “just connecting things.”
He designed Apple’s HQ to encourage random encounters—because that’s where innovation sparks.
Today, that water cooler?
It’s Twitter. 🧵
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

1993 early.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

"Seeking to fund the next Xerox PARC." Can we talk?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

Jugaad! pic.twitter.com/lVVvSf6vZN
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

That is what I said (before I read this) ...... 1993.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

AI Ciscos?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

1/
Steve Jobs designed Apple HQ around one idea:
✨ Innovation happens when people bump into each other. ✨
Today, those random collisions don’t happen in hallways.
They happen here.
On Twitter. 🧵
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 7, 2025

Claude Code, Lovable, Rocket: Vibe Coding

Andrej Karpathy: Vibe Coding

How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
The Tesla Of Political Parties

Since we originally built Claude Code as an internal tool, we've heard a ton of questions about how our teams use it at Anthropic.

Here’s an inside look on how our teams—from product engineering, to growth marketing, to legal—use Claude Code: pic.twitter.com/YnCpVZHEqA
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

1/ Data scientists build production apps

Our Data Science team built a 5,000-line React dashboard for visualizing ML model performance despite knowing "very little JavaScript."

Claude Code created the entire application from scratch.
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

2/ Infrastructure teams doing faster security reviews

For infra changes, the Security team feeds Terraform plans to Claude Code and asks: "What's this change going to do?”

Quick analysis of infrastructure changes means faster security approvals & no more developer bottlenecks.
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

3/ Growth marketers automating Google Ads

Growth Marketing automated their Google Ads workflow: Claude Code processes CSVs with hundreds of ads, identifies underperformers, and generates new variations within character limits.
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

4/ Designers shipping code directly

Product Design now implements visual changes & state management updates themselves.

Complex projects that took a week of coordination now happen in two 30-min calls. "Claude Code is open 80% of the time alongside Figma."
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

5/ Finance teams automating workflows

Finance staff with zero coding experience write plain text files describing their data workflows.

Claude Code executes everything: queries dashboards, runs analysis, produces Excel outputs.
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

6/ Meta: Claude Code building Claude Code

My team asked Claude Code to build Vim key bindings for itself. Claude autonomously implemented ~70% of the feature. We reviewed and refined the final 30%.
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

Read the full deep dive to see how teams across all of Anthropic use Claude Code: https://t.co/NG3MEnwRxd
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

And, if you’d like to try out some of these ideas yourself, you can now try Claude Code with the Pro plan!

Get it here: https://t.co/wbJhWHsewH
— cat (@_catwu) June 5, 2025

Ooh, I can just feel the power of love here. It’s just overwhelming. https://t.co/rt8LaX4pau
— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway3d) June 6, 2025

In the "conflict" of Musk vs. Trump, both win. In the attention economy, you cannot lose if your opponent is the President of the United States. It's the best opponent you can dream of.

And if your opponent is the richest person on Earth, you cannot lose as the President.
— Andriy Burkov (@burkov) June 5, 2025

People keep asking me ‘Konstantin, where are all the data centers?’ Today, I can finally give you the answer.

Explore our new dataset of 750 AI supercomputers, both those that already exist and those planned over the next five years.

Some of my own analysis 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Ek6zjpGueE
— Konstantin (@KonstantinPilz) June 5, 2025

I believe he already knows the payroll report when he wrote this. pic.twitter.com/hFC18YVx3Z
— Jim Bianco (@biancoresearch) June 6, 2025

Lovable has now a serious competitor.

Rocket just dropped, and it has taken vibe coding to the next level.

Here's everything you need to know so far: pic.twitter.com/zMgtuDcEtZ
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) June 6, 2025

I built this stock market analysis dashboard in just 2 minutes.

The AI tool I used is https://t.co/r502c49pDx—the best vibe coding tool

Simply describe your idea in any language, and Rocket provides you with a fully functioning, beautiful app—ready to ship. pic.twitter.com/ldcOlROHL2
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) June 6, 2025

How it works:

1. Go to the homepage at https://t.co/PfYkFdV2jz.
2. Select the dashboard.
3. Type your prompt and generate it.

Prompt used: "Design a clean, modern mobile app dashboard for tracking stock performance of major tech companies (like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon,… pic.twitter.com/L1xqbPHT5V
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) June 6, 2025

It’s not just a landing page builder.

With Rocket, you can create:

- Full-stack SaaS apps
- Dashboards with real-time data
- AI-powered tools
- Subscription-based products
- Custom internal tools
- Portfolios, job boards, recipe apps...

If you can imagine it, Rocket can ship… pic.twitter.com/qdAAsIE1pz
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) June 6, 2025

Integrations:

Rocket now automatically detects and sets up services like Stripe, Supabase, Figma, and more.

Supported out of the box:

- Figma → Code
- Supabase (Backend/DB)
- Stripe (Payments)
- Resend (Transactional Emails)
- Google Analytics / AdSense
- GitHub Sync
-…
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) June 6, 2025

Build stunning apps, websites, dashboards & landing pages from simple prompts (any language)—no coding, just pure magic!

Try @rocketdotnew for Free: https://t.co/AProiP4ARf
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) June 6, 2025

Rocket’s seamless integration with tools like Stripe and Figma makes app building incredibly efficient.
— Mushfiq Sajib (@heysajib) June 6, 2025

Sam Altman: Life’s Short Window to Build a Startup

"There's actually an incredibly short window of how long you can be a great startup CEO.

The mistake is to think of life as a hundred years long. When you're thinking about what to work on and think that 'I have this twenty or… pic.twitter.com/ze0Lq6S6l9
— Overlap: Business & Tech (@Overlap_Tech) June 6, 2025

Books don't take time, they GIVE you time:

An author spends 4 years studying a specific topic and 1 more year summarizing the most important lessons they learned into a single book.

By reading their book, you can download 5 years of experience in just 5 hours.
— Alex & Books 📚 (@AlexAndBooks_) June 6, 2025

I was talking a friend who wanted to move up the corporate ladder.

Aside from the obvious (work ethic, overdelivering etc.) my suggestion to him to get his body jacked and in shape.

People will automatically take you more seriously.
— Dan Go (@FitFounder) June 6, 2025

I used this n8n workflow to scrape X for top-performing posts in my niche (it's a big part of how I went from 600 → 6k followers in 13 days)

most creators scroll for hours to find content ideas that work...

whereas I just run this flow and get a full swipe file in minutes -… pic.twitter.com/2GTOfmTen3
— J.B. (@VibeMarketer_) June 5, 2025

The Tesla Of Political Parties https://t.co/NpochJhLyk Please retweet.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

Claude Code, Lovable, Rocket: Vibe Coding https://t.co/unT7xYEPNP
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

Thursday, June 05, 2025

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Who could have predicted that two of the most narcissistic people on Earth wouldn’t last long.
— Eren Bali (@erenbali) June 6, 2025

A simple case for the 10^12 outcome pic.twitter.com/qcmEySRlGS
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) June 5, 2025

The big question is who gets custody of @JDVance in the @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump divorce? So Mr. Vice President, Team Musk of Team Trump? https://t.co/L0Q85jRsPY
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) June 5, 2025

elon shouldn’t be deported without due process
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 5, 2025

Who has the cards
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 5, 2025

A lot of people seem to be treating this as if it were just a beef. But the underlying allegation is a very serious one. If it's true, Trump is surely going to have to resign.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) June 5, 2025

Unpopular opinion: Elon Musk is right.
— Michael A. Gayed, CFA (@leadlagreport) June 5, 2025

Peak morning energy.

- talked to a VC
- replaced the charting library with a custom solution built using react-native-skia
- wrote a mini agent that checks git logs from our repo and generates a marketing-ready change log

And it’s only still 7am.
— Jeff Min (@yemyat91) June 5, 2025

The smartest founders I know are just really good at turning frustration into startups.
— richard (@richardzphotoz) June 5, 2025

Selfish reasons.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

This is honestly a tremendous amount of fun if you forget for a moment we are running a country here.
— Jamie Weinstein (@Jamie_Weinstein) June 5, 2025

I'm so excited for the upcoming @elonmusk / @joerogan -- fire up the studio
— Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) June 5, 2025

Has a top advisor to a president ever called for their impeachment in the first year of a term before? A historic moment really.
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) June 5, 2025

At least now we know we can’t cut our way out of this mess, so let’s try inflating our way out…
— Vinny Lingham (@VinnyLingham) June 5, 2025

It's like, on the one hand, maybe we're just witnessing a stupid Twitter fight that will pass.

But also maybe we're witnessing a historically consequential blowup between two of the most important political forces in America?

Hard to tell!
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) June 5, 2025

It's like the scorpion and the frog meme but its just two scorpions
— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) June 5, 2025

CNN: Trump v Musk
MSNBC: Trump v Musk
Local News: Trump v Musk
Random guy at Target: Trump v Musk
Literally everyone in my text messages: Trump v Musk
Fox: is a zebra a horse?
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) June 5, 2025

The fate of search according to @sundarpichai…pic.twitter.com/xxZLEYWynb
— Emily Chang (@emilychangtv) June 5, 2025

oh no.

it hit the family group chat
— Molly O’Shea (@MollySOShea) June 5, 2025

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I also agree with this.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) June 5, 2025

What is Project 2025 - and how is it unfolding? https://t.co/sot2rjQmPn
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) June 5, 2025

The Tesla Of Political Parties https://t.co/NpochJhLyk
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2025

recently the NYT asked a court to force us to not delete any user chats. we think this was an inappropriate request that sets a bad precedent.

we are appealing the decision.

we will fight any demand that compromises our users' privacy; this is a core principle.
— Sam Altman (@sama) June 6, 2025

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The US and Germany share the same DNA. We are partners. We are friends. We are literally family.

Many citizens here in the US have ancestors hailing from Germany.

I just gave @POTUS a copy of his grandfather’s birth certificate. He was born in Kallstadt, Germany, in 1869. pic.twitter.com/Rsv7oyDS3j
— Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (@bundeskanzler) June 5, 2025

guys if you missed @aiDotEngineer yesterday and want to see my accidentally no-speaker notes keynote on the AI application opportunity, complete with:
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- several Steve Ballmer impressions
- a recipe for building “cursor for X” pic.twitter.com/9x0bGV21lq
— sarah guo // conviction (@saranormous) June 6, 2025

at the furthest extremes of the far right you will meet people further to the left than AOC https://t.co/S70a1qbihW
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) June 5, 2025

Trump's travel ban on citizens from over 12 countries is draconian and unconstitutional.

People have a right to seek asylum. pic.twitter.com/Bc0U5kgf93
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) June 6, 2025

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My very hot take: CBO is basically the most functional component of the legislative branch.

The staff are super smart, non-partisan (their analysis annoys both Ds and Rs), and prolific--putting out incredibly helpful public materials and backup data.

It's Congress's jewel.
— Brendan Duke (@Brendan_Duke) June 5, 2025

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the coolest part about trump is that it’s nearly impossible to parody the dude. 🤣

i can’t think of a single human in history where this was the case. pic.twitter.com/Jv1ed7GwQy
— signüll (@signulll) June 6, 2025

Someone called this 6 months ago.

Time for an emergency podcast. https://t.co/waYYDIwIXS
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Trump tells German leader D-Day ‘was not a pleasant day for you’ as chancellor is forced to school him on Nazis

😂 https://t.co/GQGpDo19kL
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2025

The U.S. debt burden has climbed for three reasons. First is the increase in the population aged over 65, which allows them to draw entitlement benefits. Second is the increase in the costs of things the government pays for, including health care. Third is the interest payments…
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If America goes broke, nothing else matters https://t.co/oKABYH2YZn
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new @NoPriorsPod with the legendary @drfeifei! topics:

why she’s building world labs
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An account with 184 followers has achieved de-escalation between two of the most powerful people in the world. pic.twitter.com/wy0Y7EyvzX
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June 6, 2025

This is a shame this back and forth. You are both better than this. Cool off and take a step back for a couple days.
— Alaska (@Fab25june) June 6, 2025

Shoutout to this guy with 17 followers for saving space exploration pic.twitter.com/hMs7I8DM9j
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Ambient Computing. The new paradigm. Emergent.
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RIP Devin?@FactoryAI launched Droids this week. I used it to clone Docusign in 20 minutes. That's a $18B company.

It’s LITERALLY insane 😳

Here's how it works:pic.twitter.com/dZCkjQC7ot
— Nathan Lands - Lore.com (@NathanLands) June 5, 2025

A random account with less than 200 followers has single handedly saved space exploration pic.twitter.com/OXkZKwGw6f
— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) June 6, 2025

Going back to following @elonmusk and cancelling my @netflix. Generational drama unfolding.
— Hemant Mohapatra (@MohapatraHemant) June 6, 2025

Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump.

It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant. pic.twitter.com/uTTDQ8sfAT
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The big, beautiful bill is a prescription for deadly, dangerous decline. It takes on debt on a massive scale that we can’t afford.https://t.co/01l7oRcTr3
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) June 6, 2025

Check out these Starlink Minis on taxis in Zimbabwe

Connectivity isn't something we usually think about too much in Europe or the US, but Starlink is crucial for things like this in places like Zimbabwe pic.twitter.com/qnLLhUUJfC
— Robin (@xdNiBoR) June 5, 2025

at the furthest extremes of the far right you will meet people further to the left than AOC https://t.co/S70a1qbihW
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😂🎯 https://t.co/hKhIMhKizZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2025

The Tesla Of Political Parties https://t.co/NpochJhLyk
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I can’t remember the last time a company lost almost $200B in equity market cap, on no official corporate news.
— James Chanos (@RealJimChanos) June 5, 2025

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5: Wander

BREAKING: Wander Raises $50M Series B, Bringing Their Total Funding to $100M+ To Reinvent Luxury Travel

Fresh off the term sheet, John Andrew Entwistle, Founder & CEO, breaks down @wander's growth & the round led by QED Investors & Fifth Wall, w/ participation from Redpoint,… https://t.co/mt4V9zV0Eq pic.twitter.com/6zz682hMkZ
— Molly O’Shea (@MollySOShea) May 28, 2025

It took me years to realize there is a magic formula to onboard retail:

Speculation + Social Consensus

Together they enable a new category I call Persuasion Markets.

It’s what we launch today with vote-and-earn.

And it’s what I see as our endgame—and crypto's.

***

Until… https://t.co/lqaRRkmj5p
— david phelps (@divine_economy) June 5, 2025

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