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Kade Ross retweeted
Charlotte 49ers men's basketball coach Wes Miller talks about the upcoming exhibition game before the regular season starts at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill. Needless to say which state his heart lies
Kade Ross retweeted
In college we has `rejection Tuesdays` where you had to try and get rejected.
Homies got married left and right
Kade Ross retweeted
everyone is asking us at @cxodev about calculating ROI on AI, here's what we're saying:
1. focus on engineering, it's 80%+ of your spend - if you're looking to improve cost efficiency its the big lever to move (so stop wasting time in other depts)
2 . model tests + evals are your friend. learn to run them for the most expensive parts of your business
3. spend time with your top spenders: they're either a) doing things your full team should do or b) an easy spot to save some $$$
4. you're probably underspending relative to oppty all things considered
5. PR velocity is a good not great measure of eng ROI. you need to tie to actual product intiatives and use
6. if you're not sucking up session data + traces you can't really tell if your team is using AI on the right things
7. everyone is blowing through their 12 month budget in 4 months. you're not alone
8. aim for 2-10x improvements in ops efficiency. 30% is a rounding error.
9. time saved =/= ROI. what are you doing with that time?
10. you should be eliminating whole categories of human toil
11. nobody calculated the roi of email. some of this is simple work transformation
12. idk we still like tokenmaxxing
13. you will spike up and then it will be possible to pull down costs (but not output) - we see it all the time. intelligence is getting cheaper.
14. revenue per fully loaded employee is emerging as the north star guide. most leaders won't say that out loud to their teams.
15. spend capping your top users is dumb. they're the ones most likely to be highest impact if you really look.
16. sorry, but you just don't have that many fable-level problems. stop making it your defaut.
what am i missing?
Kade Ross retweeted
One of my mentors is an under the radar billionaire who operates largely on handshake partnerships.
He has a saying:
“If we’re going back and looking at legal documents…we’re no longer partners.”
It’s wisdom I didn’t appreciate at first, but boy has it proved accurate.
Hey @bot. I'd like an email address for my Grok Bot, preferably [email protected]. Please set this up.
Kade Ross retweeted
Antawn Jamison says Dean Smith never promised him an NBA career or playing time, but did promise him he would get a degree and become a better man
“I think the biggest thing is that Coach cared about the person. It wasn’t all about just what you can do for this basketball program, getting that ball into the basket. I remember the visit that we took, and he told my mom and dad, ‘I can’t promise you that your son is going to make it to the NBA or that he’s going to have this unbelievable career at Carolina.’”
“‘I can tell you that he’s going to get an education, he’s going to graduate, and he’s going to become a better man than what he was before he came into my university.’ We were sitting there like, ‘I want to go to the NBA. I don’t want to hear about this becoming a better man stuff.’ But you had to experience it.”
“I mean, the X’s and O’s part, of all the coaches that I was blessed to have been coached by.. We were losing against NC State. We were 0–2 in the conference, and we were down like eight or nine with maybe 35 seconds.”
“This guy is cool, collected. ‘All right, we’re going to run this play. Vince, you’re going to hit this shot. We’re going to do this trap. We’re going to trap in the corner. Then we’re going to get the turnover, shoot the shot, get back up, and call a timeout.’ Everything he said in that huddle happened. And right then, you started believing in him.”
“It ain’t just talk. It’s not like, ‘We hope this can happen.’ No. This can happen if you do this, this, this.”
Kade Ross retweeted
what Elon Musk has done to make my life better:
- electric cars
- satellite internet
- saved free speech
what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better:
- nationwide next-day delivery
- architecture that powers the internet
what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better:
- made the internet searchable
- online email and documents platform
what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better:
- social media to keep me connected to friends
- online ads platform
what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better:
- database software for my businesses
- data centers for AI and cloud computing
what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better
- hardware that powers the AI revolution
what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better:
🤖 Made with AI
Kade Ross retweeted
The restaurant ritual kills the experience: ask for the check, study the bill, wait to sign.
Give them a card with the last order.
Eat. Walk out.
Kade Ross retweeted
Your reputation as a leader is built on your courage to say what others won't. Mediocre managers rationalize avoidance as "being nice." Leaders lean into discomfort. They're direct. Clear. Supportive. The difference isn't knowing what to say. It's being willing to say it.
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@jimgoetz — completely agree. @bgurley’s framing is powerful. After Challenger, Fukushima, Katrina, the 737 MAX crashes, Surfside and other catastrophes, we investigated relentlessly—not simply to assign blame, but to understand what happened, learn from it, and make the world safer.
COVID demands at least that same standard. And North Carolina has a particular responsibility here. @UNC and @DukeU should be complete open books and help this investigation to the fullest extent possible. No hiding behind lawyers, institutional interests, carefully parsed definitions or procedural arguments. Society needs the scientific and academic community to lead in the search for answers—not impede it.
As Gurley quotes: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
The urgency is actually greater today than it was in 2020. The convergence of AI, synthetic biology and increasingly powerful genome engineering is going to give scientists capabilities we could barely imagine a decade ago. Another pandemic is possible, and the consequences of biological research going awry—accidentally or deliberately—could become much greater.
That is why understanding COVID’s origins matters so much. Not to relitigate the past, but to prepare for the future. We need to understand what happened, what we got right, what we got wrong, and what safeguards are warranted as AI and biology converge.
Carolina in particular should lead here, not hide. Universities exist to pursue truth, especially when the truth is uncomfortable. This is a moment for academic leadership—and for stepping into the light.
Kade Ross retweeted
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My hot take is that Elon is not nearly rich enough and the world would be a better place if he had 10X more capital to put at work.
Kade Ross retweeted
We probably need to all update our sense of what’s coming in terms of agentic workloads with the combination of agent swarms, better computer use, the next wave of APIs and MCPs coming online, and new form factors like Muse or Instinct, vertical enterprise agents, background workflow agents, and other products that are emerging right now.
We’re going to throw agents at vastly more tasks in our professional and personal lives than we had initially imagined. The kind of information that agents will go out and find for us and do work for us in the background is going to be 100X more volume than what we can imagine previously prompting in a single session.
You’re going to have agents go out and surgically recruit talent for you 24/7, look for every signal in your customer’s business for when to pitch them, process every single transcript and conversation for product insights, review every line of code written for security issues and bugs, brute force test your systems for issues, and 100s of other tasks.
We’re probably 1% of the way into the shape of what all these agents look like, where they get deployed from, how they get managed, how we budget for them, and so on. But it’s inevitably going to happen at a scale that wouldn’t have been fathomable before.
Kade Ross retweeted
Everything Matthew McConaughey does has insane aura exhibit #5,689: watching the US Open.
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I volunteer: I'd love to have a data center in my community so local electric bills and taxes fall.
It'd be nice to be more like America's #1- and #2-richest counties, which are incidentally #1 and #2 for data centers, too!
