Matthew Bellows

Matthew Bellows

@mbellows.bsky.social

Investing in fintech, martech and media at Grit.vc. Started, built and sold three software companies. Proudest of being a husband and a dad. Writing about startups, meditation and more at bellowsand.co

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Matthew Bellows
@mbellows.bsky.social

That’s actually impressive. Where are the shareholder lawsuits @mattlevine.bsky.social

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Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Matthew Bellows
@mbellows.bsky.social

So disappointing. Huge waste of electricity.

Juan Diego Rodriguez @EMNLP in Budapest! 🇭🇺🏰🌶️@juand-r.bsky.social

Inspired by this, here is Claude Code's "really amazing, provocative and visually stunning horror game based on Jeeves and Wooster (LucasArts/Sierra-style point and click adventure)". claude.ai/public/artif...

claude.aiJeeves After Dark: Interactive Horror Adventure GamePlay an interactive point-and-click horror adventure inspired by P.G. Wodehouse. Explore surreal scenes, solve puzzles, and uncover cosmic mysteries in this retro pixel art game.
Matthew Bellows
@mbellows.bsky.social

His (excellent) lucid dreaming post reminded me of the Dzogchen instruction to do the same thing - periodically ask "Am I dreaming?". Tim uses that prompt to trigger lucidity when asleep. The Dzogchen folks use it to trigger it when awake.

Matthew Bellows
@mbellows.bsky.social

His pointer to Via Negativa (coffeeandjunk.com/via-negativa/) reminds me of the "Beyond the Four Extremes" arguments in Madhyamaka, which seek to blow up conceptual thinking by talking about what enlightenment (and reality) is not.

coffeeandjunk.comVia Negativa: The Process of Making Good Decisions By Eliminating Bad OnesWhen we set goals—both personal and professional—we tend to focus on what we should do, rather than focussing on what we should avoid. Humans naturally know more about what is wrong, what is bad, what...

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

Sometimes our anthropocentric assumptions about how intelligence "should" work (like using language for reasoning) may be holding AI back. Letting AI reason in its own native "language" in latent space could unlock new capabilities, improving reasoning over Chain of Thought. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769

Matthew Bellows
@mbellows.bsky.social

I'm not shopping today. Between my mother-in-law's funeral and a fractured (but sweet) Thanksgiving, it's time to turn the page. Best ways to do that: long walk in the woods, long meditation session, long journal entry, as much time with the kids as they will tolerate.

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