@Scobleizer
Why did Scoble sell out? I'm starting to get a lot more sponsors who are willing to pay me to introduce their companies to you. You'll see more later today. I just wanted to say a few words about this. First: thank you. Last year my wife was laid off, so budgets are a lot tighter than previously. She has a new contracting job, but not making as much as she was. Second, I'm investing in new projects: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ is a big one. It costs hundreds per day to run and I can't afford to do that without sponsors. It reads 40,000 posts a day (runs three times a day) and builds a new kind of way to read the AI community here on X (I developed it because I can't keep up with 40,000 posts a day). Third, I have three employees now. @IrenaCronin helps me with our newsletter, which is thematic on AI issues and technologies coming: https://t.co/HHwYy7NoAl and @samlevin is managing the business side of my life. He's working with a hyper smart 22 year old who is automating the business side of my life (I can't keep up anymore with all the DMs and emails while traveling around the San Francisco Bay Area to develop new content. Fourth, I continue to pour hours every day into developing my lists here on X, which are the most complete of Tech Industry. Now that AI is coming to let you build personalized news services they are getting more and more important: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ I've never been paid for the thousands of hours it took to develop them, but many are using them on their @OpenClaw or @NousResearch Hermes agentic systems to build personalized news services out of them. I try every sponsor's product and turn down those that I don't like, which happens frequently. But taking sponsorship has changed me and what I'm doing here. I try not to, but it does. First of all, just having someone paying you money to consider them forces me to put a lot more effort into trying their product than I might otherwise give. That alone changes me. How that changes my relationship with you? I'm taking this all a lot more seriously, truth be told, as I try to continue building media businesses that cover innovation and, especially, the AI world. Please let me know if I get it wrong. And Typeless is a great example of this. It's a great product. Way better than Apple's own keyboard in many ways. I use it every day to talk with you and with my agents. Funny enough, I manually typed this whole post since I find sometimes it changes my writing to be a little too clean and have a little bit of an AI voice rather than my own. That said, if you try it out please use this link so they can track how many people come from my posts here: https://t.co/5G0XxaTTjL Greatly appreciate all of you, and will try to get the mix right. And on posts that are paid I'll always use the "paid partnership" marker that I used on both of these posts so you can know which ones are things I'm compensated for writing. Thanks for helping put food on three people's tables too. In today's world that is getting tougher and tougher, I know.
