Raphael Poss
@raphaelposs.com
I turn tech into products & teams into homes. Also: snowboarder & social chameleon.
Coaching the Selfie Generation: A Year of "Me Too" and Muscle Pics - #GenZ #Mentoring #OnlineCommunity #MentalHealth
Coaching the Selfie Generation: A Year of
Spent a year in a community of 20-somethings. They're unashamedly self-obsessed, surprisingly good at spotting BS, and can't afford houses but excel at casual mental health talk. The anonymity helps a...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Coaching the Selfie Generation: A Year of "Me Too" and Muscle Pics - #GenZ #Mentoring #OnlineCommunity #MentalHealth
I did a review of the EU labels. The design system is super nice.
What the EU’s efficiency labels can teach us about helping customers choose
Markets work when buyers are well informed. The European Union’s A–G label family is a long-running, quietly radical lesson in how to make that true for everyday decisions.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I did a review of the EU labels. The design system is super nice.
Pareto's 80/20 is wrong (it's 80/40), AI hallucinations are mathematically permanent, and reverse centaurs turn workers into
slop-cleaners. Lemon markets kill online authenticity while tech crushes small orgs. September reads: minds, markets, machines. 🍋🤖
slop-cleaners. Lemon markets kill online authenticity while tech crushes small orgs. September reads: minds, markets, machines. 🍋🤖
Lemons, Centaurs, and the Collapsing Middle: September's Trail Through Markets, Minds, and Machines - Raphael Poss
Kahneman's dual-mind model meets Pareto's misunderstood 80/20. Add lemon markets driving authenticity offline, AI hallucinations proven inevitable, and reverse centaurs turning workers into slop-clean...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Pareto's 80/20 is wrong (it's 80/40), AI hallucinations are mathematically permanent, and reverse centaurs turn workers into
slop-cleaners. Lemon markets kill online authenticity while tech crushes small orgs. September reads: minds, markets, machines. 🍋🤖
slop-cleaners. Lemon markets kill online authenticity while tech crushes small orgs. September reads: minds, markets, machines. 🍋🤖
Ever notice how “liberals” push tariffs & “conservatives” push green subsidies? 🤔 Labels are cosplay. The real game: energy, chips, water, supply chains.
Your portfolio cares about volts, not votes. ⚡💸
#business #politics #supplychains #AI #energy #investing
Your portfolio cares about volts, not votes. ⚡💸
#business #politics #supplychains #AI #energy #investing
Why Old Political Labels Don’t Help You Run a Business Anymore
“Conservative” and “liberal” don’t forecast your business risks anymore. Grid capacity, chip supply, housing, and water do. If you’re still modeling strategy around 19th-century labels, you’re running...
dr-knz.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ever notice how “liberals” push tariffs & “conservatives” push green subsidies? 🤔 Labels are cosplay. The real game: energy, chips, water, supply chains.
Your portfolio cares about volts, not votes. ⚡💸
#business #politics #supplychains #AI #energy #investing
Your portfolio cares about volts, not votes. ⚡💸
#business #politics #supplychains #AI #energy #investing
I'm supporting EU–INC – a single legal entity to upgrade Europe for startups. Let’s make it happen. #EUINC
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September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I'm supporting EU–INC – a single legal entity to upgrade Europe for startups. Let’s make it happen. #EUINC
eu-inc.org/cta
eu-inc.org/cta
From Hormozi’s sales psychology to sobering AI results: LLMs misalign when fed mistakes, people grow less human treating AIs as machines, and the startup bubble may burst before the AI one. Plus, a philosopher exiled for noticing the Earth moves. Value, hype, and hubris—annotated. 🌀
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From $100M Offers to AI Misfires: Notes on Value, Hype, and Human Blind Spots
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September 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
From Hormozi’s sales psychology to sobering AI results: LLMs misalign when fed mistakes, people grow less human treating AIs as machines, and the startup bubble may burst before the AI one. Plus, a philosopher exiled for noticing the Earth moves. Value, hype, and hubris—annotated. 🌀
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Influence psychology transformed my view of sales, LLM context rot discovered, and developers overestimate AI productivity gains. Also: feudalism exists within democracies via corporations, and "being too ambitious is clever self-sabotage." Time to weaken belief edges, not fight facts. 🎯
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Context Rot, Corporate Feudalism, and the Art of Weakening Belief Edges
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Influence psychology transformed my view of sales, LLM context rot discovered, and developers overestimate AI productivity gains. Also: feudalism exists within democracies via corporations, and "being too ambitious is clever self-sabotage." Time to weaken belief edges, not fight facts. 🎯
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Apple proves LLM "reasoning" is just cosplay—accuracy collapses beyond training complexity. Cursor pricing will create AI "haves" vs "have-nots." Also: spending time with LLMs is like being gaslight by bad people. The authenticity crisis demands we go smell things. 👃
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The Illusion of Thinking: LLM Cosplay and the Coming AI Class War
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Apple proves LLM "reasoning" is just cosplay—accuracy collapses beyond training complexity. Cursor pricing will create AI "haves" vs "have-nots." Also: spending time with LLMs is like being gaslight by bad people. The authenticity crisis demands we go smell things. 👃
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Built a TypeScript library for complex time scheduling because "Saturday morning" isn't a point—it's a recurring range. Events vs periods: the mental model that changes everything. Also: my first AI-assisted post. 📅
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Time is a Range, Not a Point
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Built a TypeScript library for complex time scheduling because "Saturday morning" isn't a point—it's a recurring range. Events vs periods: the mental model that changes everything. Also: my first AI-assisted post. 📅
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Building Quintism philosophy and a calm digital companion while discovering that friction is the most valuable commodity in the world. Also: narrative prison constrains creativity, the "Who Cares Era" reflects institutional trust breakdown, and we need new social structures. 🧘
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Quintism, Friction Economics, and Building a Calm Companion in the Who Cares Era
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Building Quintism philosophy and a calm digital companion while discovering that friction is the most valuable commodity in the world. Also: narrative prison constrains creativity, the "Who Cares Era" reflects institutional trust breakdown, and we need new social structures. 🧘
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Silicon Valley is preparing a coup against geography-based government, hyperlegibility is trading secrets for attention, and LLMs can't do what we think they can. Also: we won't live to see the consequences of our AI investments. How do we guide choices responsibly? 🎭
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Hyperlegibility, Democracy Under Siege, and the Weight of Unseen Consequences
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Silicon Valley is preparing a coup against geography-based government, hyperlegibility is trading secrets for attention, and LLMs can't do what we think they can. Also: we won't live to see the consequences of our AI investments. How do we guide choices responsibly? 🎭
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The public internet is broken—even when you know what to watch out for. Algorithmic feeds are destroying our ability to search for knowledge and form memories. LOTR is brain-rot for technologists; read Discworld instead. We're approaching zombie war. 🧟
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The Bullshit Singularity: When the Internet Breaks Even for the Trained
An update from dr-knz's website
dr-knz.net
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The public internet is broken—even when you know what to watch out for. Algorithmic feeds are destroying our ability to search for knowledge and form memories. LOTR is brain-rot for technologists; read Discworld instead. We're approaching zombie war. 🧟
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Jordan Peterson is a fraud, RISC-V threatens US/UK hegemony, and Calm Tech certification could save our sanity. Also: DeepSeek demolished NVIDIA, and we have a moral duty to write human content before LLMs train on it. The PC is dead—time to make computing personal again. 💻
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Essentialism, AI Skepticism, and the Moral Duty to Write Human Content
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Jordan Peterson is a fraud, RISC-V threatens US/UK hegemony, and Calm Tech certification could save our sanity. Also: DeepSeek demolished NVIDIA, and we have a moral duty to write human content before LLMs train on it. The PC is dead—time to make computing personal again. 💻
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Decoded lullaby language ("just" means unpredictable complexity), learned about systematic design vs empirical methods, and discovered universal moral principles. Also: advanced civilizations might be indistinguishable from nature. 🌱
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Lullaby Language, Systematic Design, and Civilizations as Natural as Grass
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Decoded lullaby language ("just" means unpredictable complexity), learned about systematic design vs empirical methods, and discovered universal moral principles. Also: advanced civilizations might be indistinguishable from nature. 🌱
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Mentoring a California CTO, learning that care doesn't scale, and discovering the 70% AI problem. Also: moral education might fix America's meanness, and egoless engineering beats strict division of labor. 🧠
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The Care Economy and the 70% AI Problem
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Mentoring a California CTO, learning that care doesn't scale, and discovering the 70% AI problem. Also: moral education might fix America's meanness, and egoless engineering beats strict division of labor. 🧠
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Learned the power of networking through the Ambassador vs Sympathizer vs DJ vs Figurant matrix. Also discovered the spiritual evolution of brands: traditional → modern → post-modern → network. What comes next after community brands? 🤝
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The Ambassador Matrix: A New Framework for Understanding Your Network
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Learned the power of networking through the Ambassador vs Sympathizer vs DJ vs Figurant matrix. Also discovered the spiritual evolution of brands: traditional → modern → post-modern → network. What comes next after community brands? 🤝
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Joined an incubator program and discovered I need 4-5 important things in life to stay balanced, not just one. Started international trade consulting and ADHD career coaching. Turns out my focus is fine—I just need variety! 🎯
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The Multi-Project Mind: Why Some People Need 4-5 Important Things at Once
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Joined an incubator program and discovered I need 4-5 important things in life to stay balanced, not just one. Started international trade consulting and ADHD career coaching. Turns out my focus is fine—I just need variety! 🎯
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Health forced me from reading to YouTube, but I found gems between the garbage. Started serious projects: international trade, AI-generated smut (yes really), urbanism, and a funnel factory. Marc Lou's ShipFast is virtual gold! ⚡
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From Reading to YouTube: Project Portfolio Explosion
An update from dr-knz's website
dr-knz.net
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Health forced me from reading to YouTube, but I found gems between the garbage. Started serious projects: international trade, AI-generated smut (yes really), urbanism, and a funnel factory. Marc Lou's ShipFast is virtual gold! ⚡
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DoorDash = payday lenders for restaurants, Bruce Schneier explains how tech companies borrow from our collective social future, and group chats are the new web. Also: teenage plagiarists monetize audio+visual content demand. 📱
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The Death of the Public Internet and Rise of Private Group Chats
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
DoorDash = payday lenders for restaurants, Bruce Schneier explains how tech companies borrow from our collective social future, and group chats are the new web. Also: teenage plagiarists monetize audio+visual content demand. 📱
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AI leaves accessibility behind, misallocated talent builds video games instead of solving real problems, and self-expression economy breeds cognitive dissonance. Also: phantom stock plans and why beautiful terminal animations matter. ✨
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The Misallocation of Brilliance: From Phantom Stock to Self-Expression Traps
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
AI leaves accessibility behind, misallocated talent builds video games instead of solving real problems, and self-expression economy breeds cognitive dissonance. Also: phantom stock plans and why beautiful terminal animations matter. ✨
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Spent a month as a full-time construction project manager and learned that leadership is all about relationships. Delayed decisions, soft accountability, and empathy work better than pushing for perfection. Also: Kelly's criterion and why big companies suck. 🔨
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Management Lessons from the Construction Site
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Spent a month as a full-time construction project manager and learned that leadership is all about relationships. Delayed decisions, soft accountability, and empathy work better than pushing for perfection. Also: Kelly's criterion and why big companies suck. 🔨
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Peter Thiel = Ayn Rand with computers and venture capital. Zero to One meets Seven Habits meets "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Also discovered demurrage currency, statistical paradoxes, and why React/Vue/Svelte are all awful for prototyping. 🤔
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When Thiel Meets Covey: Technology, Politics, and the Art of Robust Tolerance
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Peter Thiel = Ayn Rand with computers and venture capital. Zero to One meets Seven Habits meets "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Also discovered demurrage currency, statistical paradoxes, and why React/Vue/Svelte are all awful for prototyping. 🤔
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Ego is the enemy, fractal dimensions explain project cost overruns, and trust saves money. Also: AI will only simulate the most deeply flawed versions of our collective intelligence. Sometimes the hardest learnings aren't easily teachable. 🔍
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Fractals, Trust, and the Limits of Teaching Wisdom
An update from dr-knz's website
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August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Ego is the enemy, fractal dimensions explain project cost overruns, and trust saves money. Also: AI will only simulate the most deeply flawed versions of our collective intelligence. Sometimes the hardest learnings aren't easily teachable. 🔍
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Rebooted my reading habit and discovered that most corporate structures are social games where participants don't realize they can influence the rules. Also: LangChain brings order to AI chaos, and I learned what I'm "allowed to do." 📚
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Reading Renaissance: Books, AI Skepticism, and Corporate Games
An update from dr-knz's website
dr-knz.net
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Rebooted my reading habit and discovered that most corporate structures are social games where participants don't realize they can influence the rules. Also: LangChain brings order to AI chaos, and I learned what I'm "allowed to do." 📚
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