One founding engineer at Utopia Studio built Mentix, a... clinical platform for surgical mentoring, in 3 months. Mentix began with Dr. Amyn Haji, who trains surgeons in advanced endoscopy at King’s College Hospital. He worked with the team to write the product Requirements. Software Factory turned them into Blueprints and Work Orders. A working prototype was ready in 3 weeks. "When the people who hold the knowledge help write the requirements, and our stack goes in with them, the work order knows what matters and why." James Cannan, founding engineer at Utopia Studio Mentix TV can broadcast a live procedure to a room of trainees. Live sessions were running by July, including a masterclass at King’s.show more

At last, Wireframe Design Studio is live 🎉 For... the last few months, I’ve been designing and building a new home for Wireframe Design Studio—marking a new chapter for what the studio is. Collaborating with great people and working on fun projects. It’s very much a work in progress—and will continue to be. I’ve built some really unnecessary things on the site, but it’s been so much fun along the way. ↓show more

The Dr BagMortem team put real work into this.... The wallet autopsies are live, the certificates look great, and people can share their results straight to X Honestly surprised $BAGM is still at this MC with a product this polished Try yours:show more

the most dangerous person in any room: - the... engineer who understands sales - the marketer who can code - the finance person who can tell stories - the founder who makes content - the salesperson who can write none of them are the best at any one thing they just own an intersection nobody else has the ability to articulate yourself makes you dangerous in every roleshow more

Some fun work by the Engg team. They worked... with the NFC antenna to push a digital receipt at the time of txn. Could power interesting brand campaigns next. There is nothing a bored engineer can’t do…show more

Freddie Mercury shutting down a rude Sid Vicious who... barged into Queen's studio. In the summer of 1977, Queen and the Sex Pistols were recording at Wessex Sound Studios in London at the same time. Queen was working on what would become News of the World. The Sex Pistols were finishing Never Mind the Bollocks. Sid Vicious went into Queen's session and, referring to something Mercury had told NME about wanting to bring ballet to the masses, sneered: "Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?" Mercury did not flinch. He looked at Vicious, called him "Simon Ferocious,'' a dig at the bassist's real name and his stage persona, and replied: "We're doing our best, dear." He then grabbed Vicious by the collar and threw him out. This dialogue became one of the most repeated stories in rock history, partly because it deals with the gap between the two acts so cleanly. Vicious walked in looking to rattle one of rock's biggest stars Mercury sent him out with a nickname and a one-liner.show more

First day in studio today for something different to... add to the CV. When I was at school I was so dyslexic that I wasn’t allowed to do French because I couldn’t read or write in English let alone anything else. I left school at 16 - it wasn’t for me! Fast forward to working life and I never pushed for studio work at Sky because I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to cope with the French content we show on the channel. Turns out you just need the right people around you to help find the workarounds and help get you there. Sky Sports Racing 🙏show more

We at Amplify Partners are launching a writing fellowship.... It's for technical people (devs, researchers, etc.) with a focus area who want 2-3 months, some money, and my editing to research + write. Help us fight back against the onslaught of slop and dumb attention-maxxing.show more

I spent a decade in TradFi, managing $1B+ at... Canada’s largest bank. I began to realize that the system was designed for the institutions running it, rather than the people. My frustration pushed me into Web3. Since then: - Mined Ethereum & invested across the crypto ecosystem since 2018 - Went deep into DeFi in 2022, built one of the first tokenized credit facilities - democratizing access to credit - Joined founding team Nesa in 2024 at intersection of AI × blockchain - empowering building with AI in fully private & sovereign way. There is a lot more I will share along the way. Stay tuned for what’s ahead for Nesa as we continue to scale and deliver.show more

NEURALINK: CJ suffered a spinal cord injury and is... ventilator-dependent. A few months ago, he was selected for the Neuralink PRIME Study at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. He recently underwent N1 implant surgery. at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, with Neuralink co-investigator Dr. Michael E. Ivan, UoM Associate Professor of at the Miller School of Medicine Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Per CJ, "In addition to being a stellar neurosurgeon, Dr. Ivan is really quite hilarious. Totally put me at ease even knowing that I was about to get a hole put in my head and wake up a cyborg!" Right after surgery in the hospital, Neuralink Software Engineer Natalie Cygan stopped by his room, set up the Neuralink laptop, showed the brain waves, and gave his wife her personal cell number for future questions. Per CJ, "Shortly after my surgery, a Neuralink engineer stopped by my hospital room to show my wife my brain waves. For the purpose of future arguments, Sweetie, this proves once and for all that I do have a brain..." A day or two later at home, Neuralink's Sehej Bindra visited to assist with the N1 implant setup and training. CJ reached 6.23 BPS on WebGrid according to Sehej and they celebrated the success. Sehej is the the brainchild behind SimpleCell, a platform to integrate and streamline the bioinformatics research. Per CJ, "Sehej is awesome. Came to my house three days straight to train me on my N1 and still meets with me virtually." At his 1-month post-op visit, Dr. Ivan confirmed the surgery healed and the N1 implant was in the right place. The CT scan above shows how the implant looks in his skull. CJ called the clinical trial very encouraging because participants recovered tremendous respiratory function and the work of weaning from the ventilator helps keep motor neurons alive. CJ (Neuralink P24), Michael Ivan, MD, MBS, FAANSshow more

Gear up. Step out. Hold the line. A career... with the U.S. Border Patrol is not ordinary. It is demanding, meaningful, and built for those who want to serve with purpose. Our agents work in harsh terrain, extreme heat, long nights, and high-pressure situations to enforce the law, secure the border, disrupt criminal activity, and protect the American people. They respond when lives are at risk. They move when others hesitate. They do not quit when the mission gets hard. In return, it offers purpose, pride, specialized training, advancement opportunities, and the chance to be part of something bigger than yourself. If you are ready for a career that makes a difference, join the U.S. Border Patrol. (Song: Step Into Your Power| by Manifestica Studio)show more

in software, we're entering a new age of skyscrapers:... rather than a small group of humans hand-typing code into a computer, software is now built by thousands of humans and agents working together to build applications at a scale that was previously unthinkable. the unsung heroes of this new era are infrastructure engineers. they are the people who are figuring out how to make software with 100x the amount of code, and 1000x the amount of contributors actually work OpenAI is one of the few companies already operating at this scale so we Every 📧 spent a few days deep inside of the company to learn how their infrastructure team thinks about building software skyscrapers—and how they use agents to do it one of the most important articles we've written this year:show more

When I worked at Sears in the early 90's,... the people there built entire lives off those jobs. The guy running appliances had three kids, coached little league every weekend, and retired after 32 years with a pension. One of the women in customer service bought her first house working full-time there, and the older guy in hardware took the same vacation to the Ozarks every summer because he could actually afford to unplug for a week. The managers knew everybody by name, the Christmas bonuses actually meant something, and the store was packed every holiday season because business was booming. Nobody thought they were "stuck" working retail - it was honest work that paid enough to live with dignity. Somewhere along the way, corporations started making record profits while the people keeping the place running could barely afford rent. When exactly did a steady full-time job stop being enough to build a normal life?show more

There is a room in Málaga that was built... to be the closest thing on earth to standing inside heaven. It is called the camarín of the Virgin of Victory, and it is hidden at the top of a tower inside the Santuario de la Victoria. To reach it, you climb and the ascent is the entire point... The building you are climbing through was completed in 1700, and it was designed as a single argument made in stone. At the bottom lies a crypt: a black chamber crowded with white plaster skeletons, a meditation on death and the brevity of life. From there a staircase rises, and as you climb it the light grows stronger and the imagery changes from bones to saints. The architects of the time understood this ascent as the soul's own journey, the dark crypt as the stage of penitence, the staircase as the stage of spiritual progress, and the room at the very top as the final stage: the union of the soul with the divine. That room at the top is the camarín, and its dome is one of the most extraordinary interiors in Spain... Every surface is covered in white and gold plasterwork. There is no empty space anywhere. The Baroque called this horror vacui, the horror of the void: the conviction that a space meant to represent heaven should not contain a single bare patch of stone. Out of that plasterwork emerge angels, flowers, birds, and mirrors. The mirrors are not decoration alone. They catch the light pouring in through the windows of the drum and throw it around the chamber, so that the gold seems to move and the whole room appears to shimmer and breathe. This wonder was built by people who believed that if you wanted to show a human being what heaven might feel like, you did not describe it to them. You built a room, and you let them climb into it... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.show more

#Schoolbusaccident : #Tamilnadu A School Bus Crossing a Railway... Track was Hit by a #Train at #Semmankuppam near #Cuddalore, 2 Children Dead and 4 injured (#TrainAccident). Horrific, at least 2 #Students were killed and 3 others sustained serious injuries after a #SchoolBus carrying them was rammed by a passenger train at a manned gate at Semmankuppam near Cuddalore in Tamilnadu today. The van belonging to a private school attempted to cross the Railway Gate (a non-interlocked manned gate) between Cuddalore and Alappakkam, when it was hit by Train No. 56813 Villupuram–Mayiladuthurai passenger. The death could increase, and the driver of the school van was among the injured who were rushed to the Cuddalore Government Hospital.show more