Intelligence
Infrastructure
What 459 Slack channels taught me about how I actually think.
interface
operating system.
running on top of it.
I've spent 18 months building AI-native products. And yet the thing I save most consistently — 652 messages in 90 days — is cultural signals. Signals come first. Execution follows.
you save comes from
two platforms.
I'd describe these platforms as low-quality. My data disagrees. The quality of what I save from X is genuinely high. But the ratio forces a question: am I reading deeply, or grazing?
Wednesday was
my slump day.
516
Peak hour: 10pm (205 messages). Dead zone: 2am–6am only.
951 messages.
Accelerating.
New channels appeared from nowhere in March. Each one a new project launched. The workspace tracks output as much as reading.
These channels show exactly where my attention was — and when it moved on. 30+ NFT channels from 2021–22. A full Clubhouse phase. The entire Web3 era is in here, frozen.
79% dormancy isn't failure. It's history.
intelligence
infrastructure.
The active part is a research tool, a practice journal, a curation system, and a project log — all in one place. The dead part is history. 1,859 curated links in 90 days. Almost none of it has become a newsletter or a post.
I just need to extract it.
Building AI-native products. Writing about culture, taste, and what happens when strategists learn to ship.
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