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GA! It's Brett.

Spent the birthday reflecting on the past year. The music, the code, the videos, the creative stuff AI made possible. Wrote it all up below.

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In Jewish numerology, 36 is "Double Chai" — life multiplied. Chai means life. 18 x 2. I don't know how much I believe in this stuff, but it's what I've been feeling reflecting on the past year.

Beneath the gigantic funding announcements and AI slop filling our feeds, there's a beautiful renaissance happening as a result of AI. And it's deeply personal.

People have always described me as creative. I've been making things my whole life — writing, design, music production. But I always felt blocked by my technical abilities. I had ideas for videos, software, and more that were simply out of reach. Even for the art I did do, I wasn't fast or good enough to fully express myself.

In one year, everything changed.

Music. I created hundreds of songs using Suno I'm genuinely proud of. Full album remixes of songs I wrote 10 years ago. An entire Broadway musical about the Mamdani administration that led to conversations about turning it into a real production. A fake soul band for Micro — Mika & The Romans — with a full album we use in our launch videos.

Writing. I got back into it through a Micro skill that takes a voice recording and turns it into an essay outline. Published essays on vibe coding, context farming, and a prediction on where the AI revolution goes. Outlined an entire book on Sprezzatura.

Code. I wrote over 500,000 lines of high-quality production code for the startup and was ranked top 1% of engineers by Weave. Being able to contribute code at scale as a founder has been a profound unlock.

Video. I became the tech industry's launch video critic — just randomly started reviewing videos one day, now people reach out for feedback every day. This year Micro released three launch videos, several viral. The latest is the one I'm most proud of. Almost completely done by me.

There was a cost. I didn't go out as much. Fell out of my workout routine. I'm fine with the tradeoff.

I once traveled the world for months and wound up depressed at the end. It was then I realized my happiest moments have always been ones where I'm creating things for myself and others.

We're no longer in a world where someone could say "I could never do that." You can do any of this. And you should.

Read the full essay here.

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SpaceX roadshow has been running since June 4. Pricing happens June 11 (today!) after market close. First trade Friday June 12 on Nasdaq under SPCX. Full breakdown here.

The numbers: $135 per share. $1.77 trillion valuation. $75 billion raise — led by Goldman Sachs with a 21-bank syndicate. That puts SpaceX as the seventh-biggest company in the US by market cap, above Tesla. Largest IPO in history by dollars raised, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's $29.4 billion record.

What's in the S-1: Starlink generated $11.4 billion in revenue in 2025 with $4.4 billion in operating income — the only profitable business line. The xAI division posted $6 billion in losses in 2025 and burned $2.5 billion in Q1 2026 alone. Musk will retain over 82% voting control after the offering.

The context: if SpaceX pops on Thursday, the window opens for Anthropic in Q3 and OpenAI shortly after. Combined demand from SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, and Cerebras is estimated at $100-200 billion — exceeding the entire 2025 US IPO market by two to four times. Public markets have never absorbed this much AI supply in a single calendar year. Thursday is the first real test.

5 things on my mind this week:

NVIDIA just changed the laptop. 7.1M views. @shiri_shh

Neon corridor. Perfect symmetry. Pink to teal gradient. Looks like someone typed "futuristic hallway" into Midjourney.

Last week's poll: AI generated. 60% of you got it right. The 40% who voted "Nope" were fooled — a black cat walking a white fence, car mirror in the corner, motion blur, everything about it screamed candid phone shot. The details AI gets right now are the ones that used to give it away.

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