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don’t talk to me unless you have sound effects enabled on linkedin i only talk to winners

if you're telling someone about their own job from 15 years ago, TURING TEST DENIED zachholman.com/posts/llm-wr...

As Someone Who Has Written This Blog Post,

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

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Added a new runway feature to signed.com to sort which of my portfolio companies are facing cash crunches. (As a side note, always fascinated by startups who run out of cash and haven't talked to their investors about it. That's what they're there for, to help!)

Still really enjoying Muse. I use Things.app for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from my LLM across all my Apple devices. Wild.

as you get older you realize that the hardest problem we all face in life is what to eat for dinner this time. like we just had dinner last night why do we have to make this decision again

Zach Holman@hol.mn · last mo.

i just had muse set up my vestaboard to display messages in my zoom background about whichever meeting i'm in next. worked great. then i told it to do a fun one for me in the meantime. this is the message it chose and then this is what it told me in chat after lol send help

friends, i’m sadly here to say that meta has cooked with muse and it’s everything every personal ai assistant has tried to be. it just like… works. i remain skeptical and continue to be really impressed

best we can tell, an onlyfans or similar model has been using our address for her simps and we keep getting bouquets of flowers this week for her apparent birthday (or for one guy, their two week anniversary together). the house is now mostly flowers.

Opening day is incredible. It’s basically like back-to-school days, where you get to see all the familiar faces and see what everyone was up to over the summer. Granted, we’re doing it at 9:30am at the pub, but it’s basically the same thing. ⚽️

Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building Signed, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtca...

Tracking Angel Investments w/o Spreadsheets: Manage your Portfolio with Effortless Tax & Exit Org

YouTube video by The Angel Next Door

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imagine: running an agent which was solely trained on the hardest problem remaining in computer science: staying signed in to any anthropic service for longer than a few days

finally succumbed to the bluesky custom domain vanity url

MRI results came back today from a human doc: a herniated disc. Obviously I had tossed the raw scans in to LLMs last week; Opus and Fable missed it, Sol caught it. This is now the gold standard in analyzing performance of frontier models. First step: herniate your back.

the most stressful question while living in san francisco is do you pay 6x the price for a waymo or do you instead suffer a human driver

Quick new post: no, I probably won't pass you on to another investor. (I wish founders would stop asking me, too, for their sake.) zachholman.com/posts/invest...

Probably Won’t Pass You on to Another Investor

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

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GitHub, university, and football. I owe a lot of the good things in my life to reaching out to people I didn't know: zachholman.com/posts/cold-e...

The Cold Email

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

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i can't believe we used to type code with our fingers

"Make the strongest possible case that my worst investment was actually my best one, and that I'm the only person who can see it." Been having a lot of fun with our new MCP server in Signed: signed.com/blog/mcp-ser...

Signed’s MCP Server for AI assistants – Signed

Today we’re launching an MCP Server for your investment portfolio. [mcp.png] MCPAt its core, MCP just enables your AI assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini,…

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Zach Holman @hol.mn · 4mo ago

walking directly behind a woman on the street and i was horrified to cat call her. by that i mean i have my cat in a backpack and he’s absolutely whining about having to go to the vet, but i still feel awkward about it

Every developer should volunteer for a non-profit on the side these days. There’s unlimited things to do, a magic tool for your knowledge that accomplishes things in minutes, and you learn a *ton* about a huge undervalued chunk of the world.

Zach Holman @hol.mn · 5mo ago

Open sourced a repo for angel investors and VCs and others called `deckk` that will extract a PDF out of a docsend link (and eventually others). PDFs rock. github.com/holman/deckk

GitHub - holman/deckk: Point it at a URL, get a PDF.

Point it at a URL, get a PDF. Contribute to holman/deckk development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Zach Holman @hol.mn · 6mo ago

Founders need to stop worrying about the check size when they raise from angel investors: zachholman.com/posts/minimu...

There’s No Minimum Angel Check Size

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

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Signed is live for everyone! VCs and investors keep saying they know technology so well and they're living in the future and yet... they use trash tools for themselves. Almost makes you think that tech investors who go on podcasts aren't as smart as they say they are. 🤔

all my friends are just building shit again, it’s an incredible time to want to do things

it's very fun to work on a financial product so I can add real quick wins like this; i wish more apps had flexible behavior like this

The IRS made a typo on my company name and incorporated it with the typo, lol. Off to a great start here.