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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 8

I’ll outline more in my app, but thanks for this opportunity!

Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 8

Earthbag construction is the key tech to unlock this, using on-site soil + a stabilizer to build walls fast. They’re fireproof, flood-tough, and have 90% lower embodied CO2 vs concrete!

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 8

Root cause is a supply chain built for Wall Street, not people. 15 different actors per home each add cost & delay. We collapse that to 1 value-stack: design, build, on-site automation, financing. As a result, we’ll be able to build a lot faster and cheaper day-one

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey there!

The problem I’m solving is that housing is unaffordable, unsustainable, and anti-user. Fragmented supply chains, carbon-heavy materials, and Wall Street-dominated finance raise costs & lock 40M millennials/Gen Z out of ownership while driving 40% global CO2. I’m working to fix this!

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

and we’re still building homes like it’s 1970.

climate risk hasn’t been theoretical for a minute now, but we’re now starting to feel our infrastructure fall victim in real time.

we need homes and financing models for a world where “once-in-a-lifetime” is now just…life

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

We need to extend this flavor of tech across how we finance all housing—AI/ML can help us develop more accessible & reliable ways of creating funding opportunities for homes

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

my other minor insight into the AI revolution is that the most valuable skill will become the command of language

natural language is the new interface—syntax, logic, structure all still apply

the better you can describe, the better you can build

prompting is the language, and language is power!

Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

I really need all of this! How can I apply??

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

I think about this a lot in the context of the built environment: when AI eats the digital world, the physical one becomes sacred

The transaction layer drives revenue, but the physical layer drives retention and meaning

Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

we’ll look back and realize: what we once called "low skill" was really just "low status”

and that the hardest things to replicate are the most human!

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

this isn't about nostalgia...it’s about what’s scarce in a world where intellect is abundant: tactical skill, sensory memory, the lightness of being

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

in Her, people hire writers to craft deeply personal letters

in our world, ChatGPT writes the letter, but it won't hold your hand, prune a tree just right, or clean a childhood home with reverence

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

jobs like gardening, caregiving, artisanal repair, handcrafted building may come to be seen as high-trust, high-touch, high-value labor

because they are!

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

if intelligence and the menial become automated, we'll start to value what can't be digitized:

Experience, craft, intuition, taste, nuance

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

for most of modern history, "thinking work" has been prized over "doing work”—white collar vs. blue collar, desks vs. dirt, etc.

but AI flips this upside down

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

as AI makes cognition cheap, the things we can't easily describe or code become more valuable

I think we're heading towards the rise of embodied work 🧵

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

Immigrants start businesses 2x more and drive huge % of STEM, construction, agriculture, and care work

Chart shows that 44 of 87 U.S. startups valued at $1B or more were co-founded by immigrants.

Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jul 7

America is where you show up, work hard, and reinvent yourself.

Immigration is a promise in an abundant world. Immigration is growth.

We need more people, not fewer.
I build because I believe in that promise.

More homes = more American prosperity. 🇺🇸

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Apr 21

The more they try to escalate, the more they won’t get anywhere—Harvard’s not going to budge

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Feb 10

Thank you for sharing, this is so sweet!

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Feb 3

How is that the natural conclusion? I think the point is that protesting in ways that are massively disruptive to large groups of people can often backfire, no matter how well-intentioned or justified. Is that reasonable?

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jan 30

When it started popping up in the summer, I thought I was going cuckoo—blue MAGA is real and thankfully a loud minority

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jan 30

I disagree with you often, but you’re 100% right here. The ridiculous amount of hate you’re getting for this only proves that. It’s same people who were delusional about Biden up until the last moment before he dropped out.

Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jan 30

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Trump Widens Lead After Biden’s Debate Debacle, Times/Siena Poll Finds

Donald Trump is ahead of President Biden by six percentage points among likely voters in a new national survey. Overall, 74 percent of voters view Mr. Biden as too old for the job, an uptick since the...

www.nytimes.com

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Pablo Ordóñez Bravo @pob.bsky.social · Jan 21

Damn wish I would’ve known you were “doing propaganda for the bourgeoisie” 😔

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