Montez (@montez) • Hey
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Publications
- Short snippet on my connection to islands https://writing.montez.cloud/atlanta,-island-within-an-island
- Braves got one. Bulldogs got one. Now Hawks and Falcons.
- 🦅
- It’s like I got a sixth sense for that American spirit 🇺🇸
Let’s make it a good thing
- I need to learn my way of doing technical system design while outside
- Zapata Ranch in Colorado. Pull up bully on bully
- My references?
- Planet Earth
That’s it
- Dead ends and reversion circle of history
- I keep having this thought that hasn’t been scratched yet about the dead ends of history across art, science, and technology
A promising evolution sprouts out then gets cut short
We liked the original path better after all
- Yapping with the guys, flirting with the girls, building with the team
Any space, any time
- An unspoken problem addressed with the surge of text feed products is our following/followers is stale
You’re following someone from 2012 because of a small growth hack you were doing. Someone is following you because you posted a nice meme in 2011.
New paradigms and motivation
- The mission is to have enough to book the space flight for my crew.
- I’m noticing that there is much highly promoted low quality information, especially on the web, and the ramifications of it.
Maybe because I’m hitting the edges of certain topics where I need high rigor and accuracy.
- I’m in the zoo with a bankroll
- Tax management software and the rap industry (excluding merch) got similar market caps
- Don’t forget
- Stevie Wonder was on David Frost in 72
- Do I Do came out in 82
- Computer Love 86
- Rappa Ternt Sanga 05
- 808s 08
- Easy starting point:
1. Find something from 40 years ago that was groundbreaking but got stuck
2. Take it very seriously one layer up
- Remember, people like stories
The rest is just set dressing
- Avi Wigderson won the Turing award for his contributions to computer science with a focus on randomness and complexity theory.
Zero-knowledge proofs are really en vogue—it was the topic of some his earliest work. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/116825.116852
- Some kid has a self message thread full of YouTube songs to skip ads.
I would be them.
I am them.
- 4️⃣✂️
- Higgs boson so known that I thought the man was not in my lifetime. RIP
- #1 on the field and #1 in your heart
- Steamboy not being on streaming shows a certain dystopian look is being pushed for whatever reason.
Just a buzzword. Sells well and doubles down on the forward looking progress thing.
May make people scared of the future as much as it represents people that already are.
- The real heads see the run Nyaueth Riam is on. We gonna talk about it for a lifetime.
- Jet to the ‘jects
- Which comes first? The deep dive in Cars lore or spinning Life Is a Highway
- It’s inevitable that I’ll be the guy. Once I realized I always was, it’s way less stress trying to be him. I got the spirit.
- Pop culture the new religion
- I was outside with abstractions flying around my head about how blockchains work until I programmed a little tut.
You can do that with most computer concepts unlike some other disciplines.
Feynman having the kiddie lab was important. Kiddie labs important for “adults” too
- The older I get, the more I recognize the value of team based activities. I like to keep a bit of a contrarian streak alive but it stands out when a set of people are locked into a shared end goal.
- Atlanta is eating the world ❕
- RIP Richard Sierra
A Serra work in progress at Pickhan Umformtechnik in 2005. Image Credit: Oliver Mark, IMAGO / ZUMA Press.
- Curious to see Rabbit R1 abstract social media posting
Rabbit’s angle as being the interface for the web for owners is a powerful vector for even more mainstream appeal
“I have too many accounts to keep up with” is a straightforward problem to solve
- Often high quality knowledge is removed from the knowledge loop by paywalls and siloed platforms
This causes the masses to feed on lower quality knowledge that is more deeply entrenched in the knowledge loop
Looks like endless memes but few rigorous theories and applications
- Marcus Fraiser (Datpiff) should be a partner at a fund. You don’t have to put the VCs in Jordans
- The misallocation of attention from being online and our ability to guide towards more fulfilling paths is slowly becoming mainstream https://worldaftercapital.gitbook.io/worldaftercapital/part-three/misallocation
- This is already happening.
As digital information is bound for further exponential growth with progress in generative models, we will land on new data types that command new physical interfaces.
- Cheers to a real one, Dries.
Felt it coming. I hope the retirement amps up other designers exploring themes in similar worlds. Going to miss him.
- Railroads on the moon
https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grumman-to-develop-concept-for-lunar-railroad
- Old web culture emphasized sending links from around the open web. You can still see its legacies in some digital spaces
- Online enough in youth to be open to many kinds of people, irl enough to not take online too serious in my daily
- Doing research on the company distributing The Dream’s recent albums
Music industry is so big. I’ve been being a more aware consumer so I can support companies that align with my values
I like indies. Companies don’t need to compromise. They can care deeply too
- I need @officialconcord to get the Target playlist deal. They have such a thoughtful lineup of artists.
- The world’s shared R&D lab
- Cities don’t belong to anyone but I was sad when the Jamaican spot was replaced with $ 18 chicken sandwiches 😪
- Amazon becoming obsolete in our lifetime will be crazy to experience.
The kids will be like “you used to buy things from strangers and wait 2 whole days?”
https://news.stanford.edu/2024/03/13/high-speed-microscale-3d-printing/
- Fit looking like a macaw and a toucan on a date
- Watching closely federal applied research budget in the US. 2023 plan was $ 54.3B (+28% from 2022). https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47161?t
- In the orbit of Brian Eno’s scenius or “culture” of the ‘10s. Here it’s referred to as “commons” with more direct examples of capital intensive industry https://hbr.org/2009/07/restoring-american-competitiveness