Founder of Dasho, a brand governance platform that checks content against a brand's own rules before it ships. Host, Wicked Thoughts. Manila.
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i feel so lucky to be a founder in the philippines
in the us if your startup fails you're more hireable. here if your startup fails the only sting is when your tita asks at noche buena when you're getting a real job. then you start another one anyway and no one remembers your other startups
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SPEAKING TAGALOG AS 'MOST USELESS TALENT'
Filipino-born chess grandmaster Wesley So has a surprising answer when asked about his least useful skill.
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The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
Pinoys represent šµš
The National Museum of American History has an exhibit right now on Filipino American history. It includes the suits that Filipino immigrants bought using the money they earned as agricultural laborers. Photos from Mina Roces's article "These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors': Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s-1930s"
See in the Pinas, even our own government agencies need to be policed and āremindedā of what is and isnāt a violation.
JUST IN: The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has suspended the mandatory display of the BIR registration seal badge until further notice.
Under Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 113-2026, taxpayers who have already obtained the seal badge may continue to display it on their online platforms at their discretion.
No penalties will be imposed solely for failure to display the seal badge during the suspension period.
COURTESY: BIR
Visit gmanetwork.com/news for more updates.
OTW home from MOA, our inDrive driver had a fun OPM "AI songs package" blasting on his stereo.
The ride took 25 mins. I puked a little in my mouth. The husband held back his laughter when the driver sang the chorus too.
Husband then said there's an obvious AI tell:
The producer tag didn't shout a line like "DJ Kahleeehhedd"; it said "OH PEE EHMMM!!" I mean, who does that?
Let me cut this tweet/Xeet here.
The 1st group is where most āAI expertsā are getting $$$ right now.
I mean, they can pose all they want esp with AI regurgitating as much sycophantic info to make them believe they transform overnight. But in reality, they have zero idea about AI applications in an org beyond āget a chatgpt/claude subscription.ā
Weāve been operating as the 2nd group - AI transformation at Third Team Ventures for marketing processes and business automation. We even applied it to ourselves at @DashoContent, and to our Dasho clients.
What we actually do looks boring on paper. We map every step of a workflow, build agents for the steps a machine can run, and put a human approval on the rest. Yes it means meeting and meeting and orchestrating the fleet of agents and tuning processes every working hour.
The real bottleneck is the humans who are anti-AI and anti-transformation (they find excuses in ways and means that sound good to their bosses).
But we know some of them are really just worried about being replaced, so they make throw comments like āis this vibecodedā to sound like they can do better. The reality is theyād rather drop it than adopt it.
MOST people resist change. But the excuses are getting creative ngl.
What are the best anti-AI excuses youāve heard?
No one is doing AI Transformation. The gap between what is possible and what is actually happening has never been wider.
When we started Varick we weren't sure this industry would exist in 2 years. Now we're sure it will be here for decades.
There are many "Applied AI" and "AI Transformation" firms, but most of them sell:
- skill files
- some Claude jobs
- prompting workshops
That isn't AI Transformation. AI Transformation is:
- redesigning an organization based on AI's capabilities
- agent-ifying each workflow in a department, primarily running in the background
- HITL so agents improve themselves, with auditability, governance and evals built in
I don't blame the first group. It's quick cash, easier work, and doesn't need the best people in the industry. But it also barely scratches the surface, and most companies are none the wiser.
Varick is doing the second. We're not here to "apply AI" for a week and take short-term wins. We're here to drive billions in value. That is only possible by going deep, redesigning processes, and building custom agents on a company's own systems of record and workflows.
We're hiring in SF. You should:
- have 1+ years in startups / PE / banking / consulting (long hours, real stakeholder management)
- build with AI every day (GitHub is green, with several tasteful projects, not just wrappers)
- want to be in this market (a $30T market that we're taking the lead in)
DMs are open.
Ubewan Kenobi
FARMERS, WEāVE GOT A DEAL! š Up to $34 MILLION from @USDA to help 12,500+ Filipino ube farmers over 5 years, with American company TECHNOSERVE bringing the expertise. Nearly 40,000 metric tons of American soybean meal made it happen. Now THATāS a partnership that delivers! šŗšøšµš
ALT Graphic with a statement from Ambassador Lee Lipton on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's support for ube development.
