Andrei
@andreistephens.bsky.social
everybody’s got their limits. nobody’s found mine.
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Andrei
@andreistephens.bsky.social
· Nov 15
The paywalled text media has what I’d call a “noble savage” view of “the American electorate”
You think the ford motor company would do that? Just side with the nazis right away?
January 14, 2026 at 4:05 AM
You think the ford motor company would do that? Just side with the nazis right away?
Two big Product traps I’m worried about with genAI:
1) Adverse network effects
2) Diminishing returns to growth signals in the context of PR saturation
1) Adverse network effects
2) Diminishing returns to growth signals in the context of PR saturation
AI “productivity” is such a slippery conversation. Ultimately, you wind up talking past outputs/outcomes. I hear a lot about how Gen AI makes it so easy to produce emails and docs.
December 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Two big Product traps I’m worried about with genAI:
1) Adverse network effects
2) Diminishing returns to growth signals in the context of PR saturation
1) Adverse network effects
2) Diminishing returns to growth signals in the context of PR saturation
For all of my (valid) complaints about iOS 26, they seem to have fixed the Mail issue where it would load a new message mid-swipe and you’d delete something other than what you meant to and you’d have to search different accounts to confirm it was junk
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For all of my (valid) complaints about iOS 26, they seem to have fixed the Mail issue where it would load a new message mid-swipe and you’d delete something other than what you meant to and you’d have to search different accounts to confirm it was junk
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Trump Calls Groceries ‘A Hoax’
Trump Calls Groceries ‘A Hoax’
MOUNT POCONO, PA—Delivering a highly anticipated speech about the state of the economy, President Donald Trump doubled down this week on his claim that groceries were a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. ...
theonion.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump Calls Groceries ‘A Hoax’
I’m sorry, as anyone who has ever studied technical analysis would say — and of course Bitcoin is a purely vibes based asset totally requiring of technical analysis — the term for this is “lmao”
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I’m sorry, as anyone who has ever studied technical analysis would say — and of course Bitcoin is a purely vibes based asset totally requiring of technical analysis — the term for this is “lmao”
When I get a shipping confirmation and I see “FedEx” or “Veho”, I just know that there’s a decent chance I never get the thing at all. Seems like there’s a decent correlation between union labor and things working. Has anyone looked into this?
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When I get a shipping confirmation and I see “FedEx” or “Veho”, I just know that there’s a decent chance I never get the thing at all. Seems like there’s a decent correlation between union labor and things working. Has anyone looked into this?
Is the bubble “the bubble is popping” popping
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Is the bubble “the bubble is popping” popping
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
Every time anyone talks about sports gambling I just think “I watch sports because it’s fun and impressive and I have teams I’ve been following since I was a kid” with the energy of “I sleep in a big bed with my wife”
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Every time anyone talks about sports gambling I just think “I watch sports because it’s fun and impressive and I have teams I’ve been following since I was a kid” with the energy of “I sleep in a big bed with my wife”
Saying the Toyota production system is not that different from AI … boy I don’t know.
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Saying the Toyota production system is not that different from AI … boy I don’t know.
How your email finds me
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
How your email finds me
To everyone in New York finance fretting about ✨socialism✨ … go take a nice walk on that little island in the river. It’ll clear your head.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
To everyone in New York finance fretting about ✨socialism✨ … go take a nice walk on that little island in the river. It’ll clear your head.
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Unsurprising that, after his party got its ass whipped, Trump would lean into vote fraud horseshit. A little surprising, though, that no one has yet told him that anonymous grocery shopping remains not just possible but the norm.
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Unsurprising that, after his party got its ass whipped, Trump would lean into vote fraud horseshit. A little surprising, though, that no one has yet told him that anonymous grocery shopping remains not just possible but the norm.
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
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when did we decide, as a society, that “cohort” is just a synonym for “group” rather than specifically a group that shares some time-invariant characteristic(s)
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
when did we decide, as a society, that “cohort” is just a synonym for “group” rather than specifically a group that shares some time-invariant characteristic(s)
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Love listening to investors who’ve forgotten more about managing money than I’ll ever know, but when they trip on “monotonic” and “orthogonal” and so forth and then have a thesis on sparkling linear algebra it’s reason to reweight these specific expectations
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Love listening to investors who’ve forgotten more about managing money than I’ll ever know, but when they trip on “monotonic” and “orthogonal” and so forth and then have a thesis on sparkling linear algebra it’s reason to reweight these specific expectations
Oh my Liz Truss on Odd Lots
August 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Oh my Liz Truss on Odd Lots
AI “productivity” is such a slippery conversation. Ultimately, you wind up talking past outputs/outcomes. I hear a lot about how Gen AI makes it so easy to produce emails and docs.
August 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
AI “productivity” is such a slippery conversation. Ultimately, you wind up talking past outputs/outcomes. I hear a lot about how Gen AI makes it so easy to produce emails and docs.
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a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that
That’s so weird who’s responsible for the economy
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
That’s so weird who’s responsible for the economy
Love the ESPN Bet commercials that depict their audience as suggestible morons, unable to identify that the ideas they think are theirs were fed to them by pervasive advertising or why they would be inherently desirable
June 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Love the ESPN Bet commercials that depict their audience as suggestible morons, unable to identify that the ideas they think are theirs were fed to them by pervasive advertising or why they would be inherently desirable
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
Teenage Dirtbag came on in the bar and my wife said she’s never heard this song I don’t know how to process this
June 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Teenage Dirtbag came on in the bar and my wife said she’s never heard this song I don’t know how to process this