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THE @HF0 2026 ANNUAL REPORT
@nativestudio_ worked with the HF0 team to capture the philosophy, spirit, and success of the world’s most transformative founder residency.
Designed by @tgthr_cmpny.
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Customer marketing is becoming so much more important. As it gets harder to build trust and get attention, everyone is looking for a halo effect from associating with another brand. The benefits to a great brand are now not just that more people will trust you and want to work with you, but also that they will want to partner with you to piggyback on your brand legitimacy. If you’re known as the brand that props up their customers in tasteful and effective ways, you’ll have a massive advantage.
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The Great Lakes Megalopolis
The year is 2050. The Great Lakes Megalopolis is the most valuable region on Earth.
Minneapolis – Milwaukee – Chicago – Indianapolis – Cincinnati – Detroit – Columbus – Cleveland – Pittsburgh – Toronto – Buffalo – Montreal
• 20% of the world's surface fresh water
• Urban centers with finance & tech hubs, and great universities
• Ontario runs one of the largest nuclear fleets in the world, generating up to 60% of its electricity, with grid-scale SMRs being built ahead of schedule. Illinois leads the US in nuclear power, and Michigan is bringing reactors back online.
• The region holds some of the largest untapped copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum-chromite deposits in the world, along with the gallium, indium, and graphite that China guards so jealously.
• The densest industrial base in the Western Hemisphere: heavy machinery, metal refineries, steel, auto, batteries, and aerospace backed by a deep pool of suppliers/engineers/skilled trades.
• Climate-resilient cities with municipal capacity that can absorb millions more.
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web design & brand refresh for @_torontosociety by me 🤍
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Every day I talk to small businesses that are using vendors (e.g. for marketing, software development, etc.) that aren’t using AI, and the business is paying the price for it (i.e. they’re spending thousands of dollars on outcomes that should be ~free). At first, I thought maybe these guys were getting ripped off, and the vendor was intentionally slowing down the process. But then I started asking more questions, and in some cases meeting the vendors, and it’s clear that most (80%+) people are still building very rudimentary software / doing basic web marketing without agents.
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Today in Ordinary Business, we visit the Empire State Building with a question: why does its observatory make so much money?
Episode 02: Lease Space, Sell Tickets
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IT’S HAPPENING!! 🚂
the GO EAST Fellowship has assembled 11 writers and 1 photographer who will be taking the train from San Francisco to Chicago at the end of this month to explore one big question: what should technological progress be in service of?
huge thanks to our sponsors @meetgranola , @runneragent , Glia Intelligence, and @dangertesting for making this possible!!
meet the fellows here: goeastfellowship.com/
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Everytime I'm in Chicago, all I think is that I should come here more often.
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For the last year I've been working on a project that's finally ready to pop its head out
Microchips are the substrate of modern civilization, yet they remain fundamentally inaccessible
Say hello to @vensa_si, a $100M philanthropic fund for advancing open silicon
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I don’t know how anyone is resisting the temptations of instant output and doing real work without putting pen to paper. The medium is the message. I literally cannot think straight when my laptop is in front of me. The real work has to happen slowly, analog, and then output accelerates once I get my fingers on the keyboard.
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Osaurus for Windows has built-in privacy controls to protect your sensitive information.
Watch an accountant’s workflow: Claude Sonnet 5.5 drafts a letter to the IRS while the client’s name, SSN, and other sensitive details never leave the PC.
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Where did the creativity go?
If the last five years have taught us anything it’s that creativity is a uniquely human characteristic. We are building more and more intelligent technology, we are working faster and more efficiently, we are dissecting “taste” and “design” and “ambition,” trying to make sense of them for computers to absorb.
And yet, I can’t say that I’ve seen any correlation between more powerful models and more creativity in the world.
The only way AI unlocks human creativity is if it unlocks more time for us to explore and experiment and reflect. But ultimately people are being pulled in to working harder despite these powerful tools at their disposal, arguably making them more productive but less creative.
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