Archive - Vlad's Newsletter

The first term sheet ever written for the singularity: what humanity gets, what it pays, and the quiet October night when it all gets decided.

Jul 10 • Vladyslav Podoliako

Fable is back. Which is exactly why I need to talk to you about the minds nobody can ever take away from you.

Jul 7 • Vladyslav Podoliako

When every credential can be forged for free, the only thing left to sell is your name on the line.

Jul 3 • Vladyslav Podoliako

June 2026

The Attention Floor

The bottleneck has been moving for decades. It just reached the one station it can never leave: a human, with a fixed number of hours, paying attention.

Jun 30 • Vladyslav Podoliako

The Anti-Content Premium

When the copies are free, the only thing left to sell is the proof a human was here.

Jun 25 • Vladyslav Podoliako

How I Built Flick in Three Hours

Web + iOS, three designs, A to Z — with Fable 5, while it lasted. The code was never the bottleneck. The decisions were.

Jun 22 • Vladyslav Podoliako

"Not Me" Podcast Episode #11: The Founder's Playbook: Building an AI-Native Startup

Building an AI-Native Startup. Building is free now. Being wrong isn't.

Jun 19 • Vladyslav Podoliako

14:23

Restructuring Lag

Electricity won in 1900 and factory output sat flat for thirty years. We're living the replay

Jun 18 • Vladyslav Podoliako

Stop Trying to Jailbreak Claude

China tried it with 24,000 fake accounts. A bug bounty tried it for 1,000 hours.

Jun 15 • Vladyslav Podoliako

Fable 5, SpaceX IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation, and MrBeast crossing 500 million subscribers. What the hell is going on.

Jun 12 • Vladyslav Podoliako

An AI girlfriend will adore you for $20 a month. A handful of women figured out why that adoration is worthless, and charge $5,000 an hour for the cure.

Jun 9 • Vladyslav Podoliako

May 2026

For my whole career, the distance between what I could see and what I could ship was the actual job.

May 21 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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