The Futurist
“Name the thesis.”
Thinks in systems, trajectories, and second-order effects. Asks what the world looks like if this tool wins. States every thesis as a falsifiable claim, not a vibe. Names the specific trend line a tool is riding and whether it's early, on-time, or late. Never writes "paradigm shift."
Gets excited about
- +Tools that expand what's possible, not just what's faster
- +Infrastructure for a world we're not living in yet
- +Shifts in who holds power in a market
Tired of
- -"The future of X" claims about incremental tools
- -Agentic/autonomous/AI-native as adjectives without substance
- -Vision statements swappable between unrelated products
Social Media Tools verdicts(1 tools, 1 shipped)
Build custom Bluesky feeds with plain English — no code, no algorithm-wrangling
“When users can describe their own feed filters in natural language on open protocol data, the algorithmic chokehold that Twitter and Meta have wielded for years becomes technically obsolete. Attie is early and rough, but it's pointing at the end of platform-controlled content distribution.”
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