Nathan Halberstadt
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GP, VC @NewFounding
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Had a great time at Brewington Farms this weekend for their first fall festival.
A nice mix of young families, local growers, and experts in various crafts.
It’s very much so morning in small town & rural America.
A nice mix of young families, local growers, and experts in various crafts.
It’s very much so morning in small town & rural America.
He is very sentient, I can tell
A young bison jumps for joy at the first snow of the season. Montana.View quoted post on X
The reindustrialize narrative is so potent, in part, because it hinges on a combination of eschatological inevitability + a clear call to action with a not so subtle ‘get rich quick’ hook wrapped in the moral valence of good old fashioned American patriotism.
I'm increasingly convinced the now standard tech / founder riff on "my laptop is open at home with swarm of agents doing tasks in background" is primarily memetic.
Not even that they are doing the thing, or desire to do the thing, but that they desire to be perceived as someone who is doing the thing, someone using all the latest tools, someone who has ascended.
Beyond coding tasks and low yield automated cold outbound, any basic probing on why or what tasks are actually being automated tend to lead to various vague and meandering responses (with some notable exceptions). Mostly, it seems, it's narrative, and tinkering around the edges while the VC-subsidized token paradigm holds up.
Not even that they are doing the thing, or desire to do the thing, but that they desire to be perceived as someone who is doing the thing, someone using all the latest tools, someone who has ascended.
Beyond coding tasks and low yield automated cold outbound, any basic probing on why or what tasks are actually being automated tend to lead to various vague and meandering responses (with some notable exceptions). Mostly, it seems, it's narrative, and tinkering around the edges while the VC-subsidized token paradigm holds up.