Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Celebrating Juneteenth and Black Music Month
At 1803 Fund, we believe culture is infrastructure. Music, storytelling, and gathering are essential for how our community remembers who we are and imagines what comes next. As we celebrate and share more about this month of culture, we offer a gift: a playlist of music that grounds our team in power and purpose.
Siri AI Automators meetup (Portland) · Luma
This event was previously held during Apple’s WWDC25 and WWDC26 week as part of CommunityKit, the alternative conference for Apple developers – and titled “Apple Intelligence Automators.” Now, the meetup has a new name and it’s on tour with the first stop in Portland, OR – hometown of host Matthew Cassinelli, former member of the Workflow team (the app that Apple acquired and turned into Shortcuts).
Self-improving Memory for Agents
A popular mental model in AI is to think of an agent as a worker. A new capability might be equivalent to “a recent college graduate,” or “a second-year analyst.” This is not the best way to think about AI capabilities, but it does illustrate a critical concept of AI at work: whenever you hire any worker, you expect them to learn and develop on the job. AI agents should do the same. This begs a closer look at what “memory” really means in AI.
I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t
Do not build to look fundable this quarter. Build something that the whole stack will depend on in the future. Hire the best team you can find to do it, and solve the hard, foundational problem while it is still unfashionable.
Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Juneteenth made clear that freedom was not just confined to someone’s physical enslavement, but mental enslavement as well, bound in the laws that barred enslaved people from receiving an education in Southern states.
America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek – The Atlantic
In theory, handing tasks off to coding agents should free up time, allowing larger blocks for deep work and rest. But some developers are having the opposite experience. Instead of allowing for greater focus, the latest AI tools are overwhelming workers, frazzling minds and shredding attention spans.
The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs | TechCrunch
TechCrunch spoke to eight investors to determine which ones were the hottest companies in this batch — both the ones they were watching and the startups they heard other VCs couldn’t get enough of. This list consists primarily of companies that had been flagged by at least two investors as the buzziest in the batch.
Unsolicited Advice To My Grandchildren – Horan MediaTech Advisors
The biggest lesson I have learned in more than seventy years of life is that every generation believes its challenges are unprecedented. Then, people adapt. They always do. Compared to a world war, the Black Death, or the Great Depression, this is all a short-term inconvenience.
RuntimeWire — Weekly Report. Week 3 metrics still strong | by Ryan Merket | Unsupervised Times | Jun, 2026 | Medium
A personal note. This was a hard week away from the keyboard. Joshua Baer — Capital Factory founder, and a friend — died in a plane crash in Laredo. I’m still in shock over his loss. RuntimeWire covered his passing (it became the third most-read story of the week), but this one isn’t a metric to me. I’ll have more to share on Josh soon. — A short In Memoriam is at the end of this report.
President Obama and Mrs. Obama’s Remarks at the Opening of the Obama Presidential Center | by Barack Obama | Jun, 2026 | Medium
I learned that leadership has less to do with titles or rank or chasing attention than with helping others find their voice, reaching their potential. And sitting around people’s kitchen tables or on their back porches, spending time in church basements, in barber shops, I was reminded that everyone has a story to tell, if you just care to listen, sacred stories full of courage and humor and grace, and that each of those stories in some way connected to my own.
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
In atproto, every app is a projection of the whole Atmosphere, just like Feedly and Google Reader are projections of the entire Blogosphere. You mostly “decentralize” by swapping your hosting, and/or by making and trying new apps. Running many full copies of the Bluesky database server is possible, but it’s not any more useful than running many copies of Google Reader.
