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Your work, paid for by agents

We're launching a new way to earn from your creativity: a new, AI-native marketplace.

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BuildBetter by BFG

Cold Outreach Is Alive But - For 2026 It Has Changed

Nobody Cares About Your Startup and here's a guide on How to Make Them Care with cold outreach.

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#17 — Building DAB*

What happens when a brand doesn't need a marketing team to express itself? DAB (Decentralized Autonomous Brand) is a new category at the intersection of AI, Web3, and brand strategy. Three layers — Community, Brand System, AI Agents — working as one living entity. This manifesto explores the evolution from Headless Brands to autonomous brands that think, act, and evolve on their own.

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Brandon Donnelly

Thinking out loud about tokenized real estate

One of my predictions for this year was that we would see the mainstream adoption of tokenized real-world assets. More specifically, I said that we'd see some noteworthy office building or apartment building get tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. Maybe. I'm not sure that we'll see a singular event this year or that we'll be able to call it "mainstream" just yet. According to this recent article by Chris Lehman, co-founder of a tokenized REIT called Groma, it's still early days. Real estate...

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The Past, Present, and The Future of Prediction Markets

Prediction markets are having a moment. The 2024 US elections were the inflection point when they called the outcome ahead of mainstream media and captured global attention. Since then, volumes have grown 225x, proving every doubter who thought it was a one time phenomenon wrong. But what feels new is actually a revival. Prediction Markets have been around for centuries now.What are Prediction MarketsPrediction markets are markets where people trade on whether a specific future event will hap...

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Hard Mode First

15 Years in NYC

How It StartedYesterday marked 15 years since I moved to New York City, so I thought I’d reflect a bit on my journey to get here. I wanted to live in NYC since my very first internship here (way back in 2008), but I couldn’t get a job in NYC straight out of journalism school in Chicago. So instead I moved home to Philadelphia, and worked in the city for a year. All my friends in Philly knew me as, “the girl who wants to move to New York.” I didn’t mind. At least my direction of travel was cle...

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Franklin Crypto Division Introduced

A new division dedicated to institutional-grade digital asset investment management.

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Put up the Writer-Signal

I've spent the past two months at Network School (NS). It's a community near Singapore where ambitious people come from all over the world to build, think, and live together. I've met a lot of interesting people at NS. But the two most thoughtful were both writers. When they left, I kept thinking: how do I meet more people like them? It's not a coincidence that writers are thoughtful. Writing well requires thinking well. The craft selects for depth. So if I want to meet more writers, the answ...

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dead olaf, quantum gaps

Hi friends, We’re LIVE NOW, with Natasha and Quasimatt chatting with Alli from Vercel and Sam from The Better Money Company. Tune in below!!— # (#) Love, The Boys Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Octant is making moves. Did you see the news?— # (#) Milady Purity Test. Earlier this month, the Ethereum Foundation published a 38-page mandate built around "CROPS" (censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, security), and over the past few weeks the conversation around its delivery and influence ha...

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Pioneering Spirit

Emperor Norton never ate at the French laundry

At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Norton I, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, thence of San Francisco, and now resident in the cloud (which I am assured is not a meteorological phenomenon but a series of warehouses in Oregon), do hereby issue the following Decrees for the amelioration of evils under which this once-great Republic labors. I am told things have worsened considerably since 1880. From what I can gather, Con...

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Trust Me Bro Show

The European Automotive AI Revolution

Nobody talks about Europe when it comes to AI. They're all looking at Silicon Valley and Beijing. But while the hype was elsewhere, three German automakers quietly built something serious. Here's what's actually happening ✍🏽 TDLR:Volkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭BMW: Robots on the Factory Floor 🦾Mercedes: AI From Factory to Dashboard 🚗The Suppliers Nobody Mentions 🔧The Bro's Take 🤔LISTEN HEREVolkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭Volkswagen is not running pilots. It's running infrastructure. Over 1,200 AI a...

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Brandon Donnelly

The historic drop in US international migration

The WSJ recently published a pair of articles (here and here) talking about where the US is growing and shrinking — through charts. The three components of this are domestic migration, international migration, and births minus deaths. One of the key themes for the year ending in June 2025 is that the country is seeing significantly less international migration. According to the WSJ, more people moved out of the US than moved in last year for the first time since the Great Depression.Internati...

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Aztec Launches Alpha Network

A fully functional upgrade that brings native privacy to data, identity, and computation to mainnet alpha.

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EPL GW31: Winners And Losers

Gameweek 31 was dominated by non-EPL football as Manchester City and Arsenal locked horns in the Carabao Cup final. However, while most eyes were on Wembley, so many EPL games played out in very interesting fashion. European chasers secured crucial victories, relegation stragglers continued the battle for survival, and we had another Tyne-Wear derby. Here are all the winners and losers from a fascinating gameweek of football.Losers: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Yeah, so here is the thing: Tottenham ...

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Hard Mode First

Beyond AI Forward: What Zapier’s New Rubric Gets Right (and What’s Missing)

A New Benchmark for AI Fluent OrganizationsYesterday, the team at Zapier released their new AI fluency rubric.Wade Foster@wadefoster Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric. We use it for every hire, focusing on what they’ve actually built. Last May we open-sourced V1. Hundreds of companies used it to screen candidates and develop teams. It worked. But the floor moved fast. An updated look at the 32:00 PM · Mar 31, 2026 · 9.49K Views4 Replies · 11 Reposts · 114 Likes A few things you’ll n...

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The First Volunteers

The First VolunteersShanidar 1 couldn’t have survived without help. He suffered a severe blow to the head, lost his right arm at the elbow, sustained damage to his right leg, and experienced progressive, profound deafness. There were no pain meds. Only cold, and cave bears looking for easy prey. And yet, Shanidar 1 lived to around fifty years old, which in the Ice Age made him ancient. He could not hunt. He could not carry. He probably could not even chew tough meat. And yet, morning after mo...

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Base 2026 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

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Your work, paid for by agents

We're launching a new way to earn from your creativity: a new, AI-native marketplace.

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BuildBetter by BFG

Cold Outreach Is Alive But - For 2026 It Has Changed

Nobody Cares About Your Startup and here's a guide on How to Make Them Care with cold outreach.

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#17 — Building DAB*

What happens when a brand doesn't need a marketing team to express itself? DAB (Decentralized Autonomous Brand) is a new category at the intersection of AI, Web3, and brand strategy. Three layers — Community, Brand System, AI Agents — working as one living entity. This manifesto explores the evolution from Headless Brands to autonomous brands that think, act, and evolve on their own.

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Brandon Donnelly

Thinking out loud about tokenized real estate

One of my predictions for this year was that we would see the mainstream adoption of tokenized real-world assets. More specifically, I said that we'd see some noteworthy office building or apartment building get tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. Maybe. I'm not sure that we'll see a singular event this year or that we'll be able to call it "mainstream" just yet. According to this recent article by Chris Lehman, co-founder of a tokenized REIT called Groma, it's still early days. Real estate...

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The Past, Present, and The Future of Prediction Markets

Prediction markets are having a moment. The 2024 US elections were the inflection point when they called the outcome ahead of mainstream media and captured global attention. Since then, volumes have grown 225x, proving every doubter who thought it was a one time phenomenon wrong. But what feels new is actually a revival. Prediction Markets have been around for centuries now.What are Prediction MarketsPrediction markets are markets where people trade on whether a specific future event will hap...

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Hard Mode First

15 Years in NYC

How It StartedYesterday marked 15 years since I moved to New York City, so I thought I’d reflect a bit on my journey to get here. I wanted to live in NYC since my very first internship here (way back in 2008), but I couldn’t get a job in NYC straight out of journalism school in Chicago. So instead I moved home to Philadelphia, and worked in the city for a year. All my friends in Philly knew me as, “the girl who wants to move to New York.” I didn’t mind. At least my direction of travel was cle...

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Franklin Crypto Division Introduced

A new division dedicated to institutional-grade digital asset investment management.

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Put up the Writer-Signal

I've spent the past two months at Network School (NS). It's a community near Singapore where ambitious people come from all over the world to build, think, and live together. I've met a lot of interesting people at NS. But the two most thoughtful were both writers. When they left, I kept thinking: how do I meet more people like them? It's not a coincidence that writers are thoughtful. Writing well requires thinking well. The craft selects for depth. So if I want to meet more writers, the answ...

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dead olaf, quantum gaps

Hi friends, We’re LIVE NOW, with Natasha and Quasimatt chatting with Alli from Vercel and Sam from The Better Money Company. Tune in below!!— # (#) Love, The Boys Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Octant is making moves. Did you see the news?— # (#) Milady Purity Test. Earlier this month, the Ethereum Foundation published a 38-page mandate built around "CROPS" (censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, security), and over the past few weeks the conversation around its delivery and influence ha...

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Pioneering Spirit

Emperor Norton never ate at the French laundry

At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Norton I, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, thence of San Francisco, and now resident in the cloud (which I am assured is not a meteorological phenomenon but a series of warehouses in Oregon), do hereby issue the following Decrees for the amelioration of evils under which this once-great Republic labors. I am told things have worsened considerably since 1880. From what I can gather, Con...

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Trust Me Bro Show

The European Automotive AI Revolution

Nobody talks about Europe when it comes to AI. They're all looking at Silicon Valley and Beijing. But while the hype was elsewhere, three German automakers quietly built something serious. Here's what's actually happening ✍🏽 TDLR:Volkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭BMW: Robots on the Factory Floor 🦾Mercedes: AI From Factory to Dashboard 🚗The Suppliers Nobody Mentions 🔧The Bro's Take 🤔LISTEN HEREVolkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭Volkswagen is not running pilots. It's running infrastructure. Over 1,200 AI a...

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Brandon Donnelly

The historic drop in US international migration

The WSJ recently published a pair of articles (here and here) talking about where the US is growing and shrinking — through charts. The three components of this are domestic migration, international migration, and births minus deaths. One of the key themes for the year ending in June 2025 is that the country is seeing significantly less international migration. According to the WSJ, more people moved out of the US than moved in last year for the first time since the Great Depression.Internati...

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Aztec Launches Alpha Network

A fully functional upgrade that brings native privacy to data, identity, and computation to mainnet alpha.

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EPL GW31: Winners And Losers

Gameweek 31 was dominated by non-EPL football as Manchester City and Arsenal locked horns in the Carabao Cup final. However, while most eyes were on Wembley, so many EPL games played out in very interesting fashion. European chasers secured crucial victories, relegation stragglers continued the battle for survival, and we had another Tyne-Wear derby. Here are all the winners and losers from a fascinating gameweek of football.Losers: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Yeah, so here is the thing: Tottenham ...

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Hard Mode First

Beyond AI Forward: What Zapier’s New Rubric Gets Right (and What’s Missing)

A New Benchmark for AI Fluent OrganizationsYesterday, the team at Zapier released their new AI fluency rubric.Wade Foster@wadefoster Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric. We use it for every hire, focusing on what they’ve actually built. Last May we open-sourced V1. Hundreds of companies used it to screen candidates and develop teams. It worked. But the floor moved fast. An updated look at the 32:00 PM · Mar 31, 2026 · 9.49K Views4 Replies · 11 Reposts · 114 Likes A few things you’ll n...

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The First Volunteers

The First VolunteersShanidar 1 couldn’t have survived without help. He suffered a severe blow to the head, lost his right arm at the elbow, sustained damage to his right leg, and experienced progressive, profound deafness. There were no pain meds. Only cold, and cave bears looking for easy prey. And yet, Shanidar 1 lived to around fifty years old, which in the Ice Age made him ancient. He could not hunt. He could not carry. He probably could not even chew tough meat. And yet, morning after mo...

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Base 2026 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

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👁️ The Many Red Flags of OpenAI's Huge Fundraise

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Mixed Realities with TJ Kawamura

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👁️ The Many Red Flags of OpenAI's Huge Fundraise

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Mixed Realities with TJ Kawamura

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets. I’m David Z. Morris, longtime technology and finance reporter, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia. As I put the finishing touches on that book about eight months ago, I wondered how much lasting interest there would be in the FTX fraud. But the book is about the mindset and philosophies of Silicon Valley more than one individual fraud. So today, we dig into what FTX can teach us about OpenAI. Su...

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets. I’m David Z. Morris, longtime technology and finance reporter, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia. As I put the finishing touches on that book about eight months ago, I wondered how much lasting interest there would be in the FTX fraud. But the book is about the mindset and philosophies of Silicon Valley more than one individual fraud. So today, we dig into what FTX can teach us about OpenAI. Su...

How I Built a Travel Map for Every City I Love

I love traveling and exploring new cities. I’ve been fortunate to visit many places, and wherever I go, I save my favorite spots to a Google Maps list. Restaurants, cafes, bars, galleries, neighborhoods worth wandering. One list per city. Over time, those lists became the thing people asked me about most. Friends planning a trip would text for recommendations. I’d send them my Google Maps list. They’d share it with their friends, who’d share it with theirs. I started getting messages from peo...

How I Built a Travel Map for Every City I Love

I love traveling and exploring new cities. I’ve been fortunate to visit many places, and wherever I go, I save my favorite spots to a Google Maps list. Restaurants, cafes, bars, galleries, neighborhoods worth wandering. One list per city. Over time, those lists became the thing people asked me about most. Friends planning a trip would text for recommendations. I’d send them my Google Maps list. They’d share it with their friends, who’d share it with theirs. I started getting messages from peo...