Uncovered Bookmarks #19: Studio Launch

Airtree Studios, viral internet pranks, retro aesthetics, and a Lego Bugatti

Jan 29, 2026

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Airtree Studios launched last week with some stellar conversations…

If you don’t know Tim Davis, cofounder of Modular, you should. One of the most ambitious Aussie entrepreneurs globally building core AI infra:

And I interviewed Saahil Bijlani, Renee Zhang and Jason Zhou: non-technical operators now shipping code daily:

Desperate to get my hands on one of these:

Gave my website a glow up:

I spoke to Stanford researchers last week who are using this to push the frontier of research:

Here for this aesthetic:

It takes too long to get a grid connection, so data centres are increasingly building behind-the-meter:

Michael Thomas@curious_founder

I'm working on a report about data center developers building their own power plants and this data shocked me: 48 GW of proposed data centers—roughly 33% of all planned capacity—now plan to skip the grid by building "behind-the-meter" projects. This is a very new trend. A

8:06 PM · Jan 27, 2026 · 567K Views

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Riley Walz on creating viral internet pranks:

“At 13, he almost took an NPR radio show off air by getting access to their admin dashboard over an unsecured WiFi network. At 15, he got his first job as a dishwasher and parlayed his salary into becoming an online loan shark for desperate redditors. At 19, he antagonized a foreign government by noticing the domain for the website in Qatar's Twitter bio had expired, so he bought it himself and redirected it to an anti-Qatar tweet. This forced their federal government to revoke the domain entirely”

There’s always time for Cormac McCarthy x SFI:

Kevin Gee@kevg1412

@DStrachman Reminds me of this from Cormac McCarthy

4:08 AM · Jan 25, 2026 · 5.82K Views

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Some geometric abstraction:

Not all software is created equal, many complex software products have more lock in than the public markets are giving them credit for:

Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

Anthropic employs world-class engineers who could build an HR system in weeks. They use Workday anyway. The reason tells you exactly where enterprise SaaS is headed. Building HR software requires knowing labor law across 50 states and 100+ countries. Payroll tax compliance

Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

The company that created Claude Code and Claude Cowork must have obviously built their own HR solution from scratch with these tools, right? No: they use Workday. Understand why this is, and you'll understand why enterprise SaaS could be doing better than ever, thanks to AI

7:08 PM · Jan 26, 2026 · 795K Views

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Why not:

Historic Vids@historyinmemes

LEGO engineers spent 13,000 hours and over one million pieces constructing a fully drivable Bugatti Chiron.

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China’s lead in manufacturing and power electronics is still underestimated:

“What matters far more are the structural forces: the deliberately designed system, the compounding advantage of speed, the willingness to prioritize endurance over profit, the long-term orientation around energy transition. If this trip reinforced anything, it's that you have to go where the infrastructure is”