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A bunch of people have written me back saying this was the best newsletter I have ever sent (flattering) ... so here it is for those who don't subscribe: AI Is Not a Labor Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.
sam lessin 🏴☠️
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Intern @theinformation. GP @slow. Fmr VP Product FB. co-founder dropio & fin. Seed investor solana, venmo, openphone, teamshares, sublime. wless.in ¶.
- This isn't slow's quarterly letter... but I asked my bot to write one just to try, and it is pretty good... The second quarter of 2026 will be remembered as the quarter liquidity came back — and, more interestingly, as the quarter the market started to admit what kind of era
- This is pretty good- my bot now processes all my photos... unprompted picked up rusty chains on a porch swing and suggested swap & paint to fix.
- My bot can't figure out if the street price of crack is going up, or the dynamics around wholesale vs. retail...
- AI didn't kill Airtable. Math did. This week on More or Less: — Jeff Dean leaving Google is *healthy*. Half these research legends are too rich to grind on metrics and too famous to fire. Cycling them out is what good orgs do. Google invented the alternative: pay people
