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founder, ceo @eternaltilidie || community @terminalNYC || writing @

Brooklyn, NY

https://t.co/5kaBjMICer

Joined November 2015

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Reggie James

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TASTE IS THE PERSONALIZING OF CULTURE Here's a quick highlight of bolded sentences: Our taste is that which confirms our identity. Taste is a cultivation of personal effects. Personalizing is a function of memory, experience, and aspiration. Applied taste is not subjective.

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4 months

@notcrypticno The international equivalent of lighting a bag of dog shit on your neighbors porch

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Zuck at the Oculus team rn

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2 years

bro... you're not human

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Founders this is what shipping looks like when you have a vision No memes No interactions with the press Just shipping Pure product Market takeover

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11 months

It’s so clear that Steve Jobs loved music And Tim Cook doesn’t love music

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study stage design

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“If you were the inventors of Scarlett Johansson… you would have invented Scarlett Johansson” - Sam Altman

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2 years

Deleting tiktok for the 100th time because that shit is literally heroin and Chinese spyware

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6 months

This Friday I’m honored to be hosting a private unveiling of a very special hardware startup Daylight Computer Daylight is the first ever 60 fps e-ink computer. Think of a Kindle, but at the speed of an iPad This will be a curated private event Comment for a potential invite!

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@johnhfio bro we get it... you're in your "true gentlemen" we've "lost the art of tailoring" and "I wish I was old school Milano" peak Sartorialist blog era i'm happy for you i was like this in high school

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1 year

Rainy Saturday

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3 months

Starting with Le Bain tells me everything I need to know about homie

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A list of NYC's most exquisite bars and lounges: (Impress someone by taking them here) • Le Bain • Bo Peep • Nubeluz • Rose Bar • Westlight • Peekaboo • Chapel Bar • Swan Room • The Campbell • CloudM Bowery • Raines Law Room • The Panorama Room • The Roof at PUBLIC

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I cannot stress this enough: Most of you don’t want to be Founder-CEOs You want the freedom to build creatively compelling work As ceo you will/have to offload most of that actual work, & act more as a spiritual guide You want better work structures to pursue those shots

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8 months

Steve Jobs is dead Virgil Abloh is dead Walt Disney is dead Don’t copy Elon Don’t copy Ye Don’t copy Snapchat Don’t copy Tiktok Free yourself from pattern matching to ghosts. Search for newness. Link in Bio

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2 years

4th book of the year completed ✅

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3 months

your morning wake up call is here @ Figma users

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2 months

I think it's really underrated the battlefield shaping Zuck did by open sourcing Meta's AI work It not only changed OpenAI's entire flow, but pushed Anthropic into a more product centric strategy (as opposed to research centric) - Mike Krieger hire exemplifies this Zuck has all

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9 months

this is the one "Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk." you can unpack this statement for weeks

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what i wish someone had told me:

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10 months

Still need a study on how YouTube comments became incredibly civilized and wholesome While Instagram comments became the absolute meanest place on the internet

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2 years

absolutely incredible interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering... who also founded Acne?!?! wtffff Jesper's catalogue of work is deeply inspirational

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2 years

Virgil Abloh released Free Game A full breakdown of building a brand I wanted my first newsletter this year to be an extension of that Demystifying the impact one can have in technology, particularly for Black youth that may not see this for themselves

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2 years

Demo Day @ Caterpillar

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2 years

James Turrell’s birthday was yesterday

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2 years

I’m so confused by the crypto community’s obsession with djs that peaked in early 2010s

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10 months

Yes, we both had Drake in our top 5 artists Spotify wrapped. But mine was in a super nuanced, tracking reference lines, cultural academic way that yours could never be

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1 year

Me as a non-technical founder

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2 years

Last year you were praying for exactly what you have now Don’t forget that

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5 months

Feels like OpenAI keynotes are replacing Apple keynotes culturally

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5 months

German climate protestors attempt to… [checks notes] disrupt company focused on electric vehicles… “Which climate are you for?”

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6 months

Can’t believe I have to say this but… The “next Steve Jobs” doesn’t ever think about becoming the next Steve Jobs

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Jony Ive gave technology body dysmorphia Everything doesn’t have to be skinny and shiny. There’s other shapes and materials

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3 months

On Sunday I married my best friend June 16th, 2024 ~ the beginning of everything

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3 months

10 days ago I married my best friend Today I turn 29 I’m healthy My family is good I have friends that love & support me My wife is beautiful God is on my side

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10 months

This propaganda post is driving me insane most US tech companies are banned in China. The reverse isn’t true. Bro trying to conflate a chicken sandwich with free speech digital infrastructure. Get out of my face with that

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Beijing South Station has at least four KFCs and three Starbucks, that I can see! Imagine if China treated U.S. companies they way the U.S. treats Chinese companies…

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1 year

Today’s my 28th birthday I’m listening to Blonde again I’m wearing metallic shorts and an issey turtleneck I just got back from Paris I’m on my way to my office I’ll probably dj for a bit Then I’ll write Then some people will come in I’m engaged My family is good God is love

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4 months

tech people want to start conversations around "taste" are going to be reallyyyyyy ruffled as they realize they aren't the pinnacle of that pyramid

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2 years

Everything is breaking Now’s your chance

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21 days

Apple of the past: Live Real humans on stage Live demos Other humans around Public settings Apple Today: Async Highly produced videos w/ a lot of effects No live demos Isolated in empty rooms on the campus / green screens —— Simply lacks a core sense of humanity

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1 year

God gave you infinite creativity And you landed at SaaS & Atheism???

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@packyM I mean. even Ilya signed the letter…

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2 years

making everyone content creators was a mistake actually

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2 years

In an age of all information all at once + decision abundance The new luxury is deep context + slowness The job for the brand then, is to be able to create environment. That attracts someone to explore the depth of references

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We need to retire the term “non-technical” Just say what you do!!!! Stop defining yourself by the absence of something. JUST SAY WHAT YOU DO!!!!!

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5 months

Some old new hardware arrived “The Internet without the internet”

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2 months

The arc is clear He starts out absolutely swagless, wearing gray tees and jeans Upskills into his understated streetwear era. Uses a little cash for stake in Supreme. While at Supreme he becomes aware of a lot of other brands through collabs. He asks about the shirt with the

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1 year

the amount of pitches that are about to be like "Obviously, your Dad was a huge inspiration..." and then show some absolute bullshit

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1 year

So much of execution is just following up and not being embarrassed about it

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1 year

The 100th issue of the newsletter 🌀

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9 months

I will forever stand by the “thinker-doer” archetype A lot of tech folks love to be the “doer”. Make fun of thinker types. Just kind of brute force and look for low hanging fruit Of course a lot of the “thinkers” don’t do shit and that’s a problem Real thinker-doers are rare

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2 years

AI is the next keyboard, not a competitive hotter classmate going for your position The same way our output with a keyboard is stronger than text-to-speech AI like DALL-E / Midjourney helps us get what’s in our head closer to reality faster And that’s HUGE across all practices

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5 months

I miss peak VICE era They were sending Weed Smoking Koreans to meet the KKK and UHaul Lesbians into Syria Absolutely brilliant content

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3 months

Quick sanity check for startup people. Let’s stop calling this shit “suffering” Yes it’s painful and hard and all those things. But getting a million dollar check to work on something you dreamed up for the world is not suffering It’s literally the most privileged life ever

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2 years

building a startup in new york

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1 year

I need to know who’s idea it was at Humane to announce the first view of the device at TED Absolutely zero sauce

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10 months

memory is everything

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1 year

Open sourcing my slides from @FWBtweets Fest Embracing Irrelevancy For Progress Crypto has a unique opportunity to take a moment, repent, and set its values straight. Will we take that opportunity? You can watch from the Saturday livestream here:

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1 year

5 years ago today

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It’s crazy how much the next wave of hardware is going to involve wearables But the one thing SF mf’s have no idea how to do… IS WEAR THINGS

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10 months

99% of success is delulu persistence

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1 year

this is really something

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1 year

Silicon Valley guys are obsessed with replacing their mothers with services

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I would pay so much money for a single service that completely handled my basic needs so I could focus * laundry * 3x/day meal prep * personal trainer * cleaner * therapist turn my house into a monastery. this should be VC value add

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2 years

My brother @sama Let me be your stylist

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2 years

me watching the ChatGPT 4 presentation

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Not a single candidate has brought up making the Moon a state… sad

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2 years

Corecore is obvious in hindsight as (potentially) genZ’s breakout art movement because it’s the perfect representation of a media-soaked subconscious

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2 years

no… formula for these are very specific - remove one layer of information, usually anonymity - anonymity allows unhinged participation + anxiety of wanting to know - utilize current social rails (insta) - sell that info back through iap Never raise venture, profit, shutdown

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consumer social apps are back gas – 1m dau – $0 raised – team of 4 ngl – 50m+ downloads – $0 raised – team of 3 bereal – 50m+ downloads – $90m raised – team of 30+

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2 months

My one piece of advice to young people in tech ~ stop relying on your age as a piece of evidence of why you’re impressive I’ve seem this create such an identity crisis as you inevitably age “I’m doing all this at 22” etc “I know what’s cool because I’m 19” Avoid this trap!!!

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10 months

I can’t express this in any other way. I truly love working. Left the office at 8 Got home. Chilled for a little bit. Played some Fortnite. Had dinner. Made some coffee and started back up again a bit before 11 Just fully in it Loving it

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2 years

27+++ Very grateful. Surrounded in love. Many dreams. Realizing them daily.

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10 months

life is about relationships relationships are cemented by memory memories are formed by experience experiences are registered by our senses our senses are activated by design design is produced in a response to life

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9 months

The only thing that matters is improving quality of life We’ve lost this plot to an insane level

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1 year

I keep seeing people talk about the Meta Glasses & “the next iPhone moment” THE NEXT IPHONE MOMENT IS NOT IN THIS WAVE OF HARDWARE We are returning to hardware multiplicity. Or what I call “INDIE HARDWARE” The iPhone represented a convergence moment NEXT IS AN EXPLOSION!!!

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2 years

Virgil would have been 42 today 🕊

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2 years

If you thought the previous era of tech grift was bad Lemme tell you… the web3 era of monetizing “culture” is going to make the previous scammers seem earnest

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10 months

Between this from @jack & the recent changes at Airbnb from @bchesky It’s clear that people are getting their fire back. That there’s work to be done. That we have to go through some awkward & hard decisions to get us reoriented around the work. Have been very inspired by this!

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Full text from Jack Dorsey to Block employees via Insider: I want us to build a culture of excellence. Excellence in service to our customers, excellence in our craft, excellence in our respective disciplines, and excellence to each other. We want to help everyone achieve

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When you recognize that Hardware is part of our nature layer -> so consequentially, our culture is downstream of our hardware… You’ll understand the mammoth battle Humane is trying to take on. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it is extremely Catholic The iPhone has

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What is culture? Culture is the collection of ways we do things that we don’t have to do. And the effects that creates in each other. We do have to wear clothes. It’s protective. We don’t have to embellish it, have views on tailoring. Etc. That’s the “culture”. What is A

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The SF Fred Again / Skrillex turnout shows that the city is in a taste drought

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11 months

In a world of AI as the work-horse “Articulation” becomes the key skill COMBINED with differentiated reference material Time to read a lot more fiction Watch a lot more runway shows Look at set design Listen to absolutely everything Etc etc etc etc

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2 years

Imagine blocking someone for this comment The edgy tech boys are really struggling

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4 months

@notcrypticno Balloons over the boarder??? 100%

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8 months

If your response towards genuine tech folks skeptical about Vision Pro or the broader thesis on what it means for Apple is -> “you sound like Steve Ballmer on the iPhone” Or if you are skeptical and call the Vision Pro another “Newton” Both are failing to really look at what’s

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2 years

NO MORE PESSIMISM WE WILL END APATHY THROUGH CREATION

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1 year

Apple telling me I’m at mid-risk for depression and to literally touch grass is so fcking wild

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1 year

idiot: I just don't feel community in the city anymore same idiot: *living in Mexico City for 3 months, then Denver for a month, then LA for 2 months, only visiting NY for a week or two at a time*

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2 years

I think in the companies that REALLY win in this decade will actually be more defined by compelling corporate structures that break the trend of highly competent people being psyop’d into being founders

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1 year

the arena is filling up

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2 years

My abuela passed away on Sunday at 92 She immigrated from the Dominican Republic with 6 children, & then had my Mom in New York The Eternal space is around the corner from her apt, where my mom grew up. Meditating on the long chain of events that led from her in DR to me ❤️🕊️

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Learning the art of the anti-reaction is going to be a religious level movement for the next phase of the internet EVERYTHING IS BAIT EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO WRAP YOU UP DISTRACTING YOU FROM YOUR PURPOSE BAD IDEAS ARE BAIT CONTENT SLOP IS BAIT PORN IS BAIT POLITICS IS BAIT

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2 years

people that say ideas are cheap very rarely have any interesting ideas It takes serious serious serious work to get to compelling ideas

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2 years

The funniest part of this last crypto cycle was how much narrative was put around “the economic value of vibing” Born of non-artistic folks perception of creating art/creative work ~ as “just vibes” Further exacerbating several layers of grift on the back of “culture”

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6 months

Worldcoin is my favorite crypto project They’re actually trying to do a thing

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2 months

Tech twitter is no longer a curious place interested in learning about the earnest attempts of newness Or seeing how others beyond their bubble react to a high intentioned launch Instead they are competing in an NBA dunk content. Regurgitating the consensus for 5 new followers

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2 years

Internet: 15 minutes of fame Crypto: 15 minutes of wealth AI: 15 minutes of genius

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1 year

“One more thing…”

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