Web/tech. #allcaps fan. He/him.

Joined September 2009
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18 Jan 2022
When I quit tech to open up a cheeseburger stand in the middle of nowhere if you find yourself passing through please stop by.
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ā€œOn behalf of everyone across the Big Apple: Welcome home, my friends.ā€ Nah bro I’m not crying you are.
Welcome to the greatest city on Earth. Here are some tips and tricks for how to get around and make the most of your time here. Learn more at nyctourism.com.
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RT @kylietcheung: It actually like really matters who you vote for
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every single day just feels like this image now
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Please: be respectful of the host nation’s culture and traditions
šŸšØšŸ“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ NEW: Nine people have been injured at a shooting near England’s World Cup camp in Missouri [@TheAthleticFC]
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Therapist: and what do we do when we’re sad? Me: we go buy more books Therapist: please stop my god you live in San Francisco
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Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

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There are so many cities I hope to make it back to someday, but none as much as Fukuoka.
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The Crunchwrap Supreme has existed for 5x longer than the Confederacy
They have easily the coolest Confederate monument. They really did future proof it from ever being removed.
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The world feels off but the sunsets in California are always very much on
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Or go to the Presidio, jump in the ocean, get a coffee at The Mill, watch sunset at Twin Peaks, ride a bike anywhere, see live music, eat a burrito, take a grass nap in GG Park, have beer at The Page, watch the Bay Bridge lights, wander Chinatown, wander Ferry building, run across GG Bridge, walk Fort Funston, eat the best meal of your life with friends…drive any direction for 2hrs. And be deeply grateful for the heavenscape you live in.
May 16
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for ā€œpeanutsā€? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the ā€œpermanent underclassā€ conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.
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This feels very strange.
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RT @kylietcheung: it's genuinely infuriating that the world's richest most powerful man is trying to write off his deliberate war on life-s…
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6 Nov 2024
The Trump administration interviewing cabinet appointees

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Welp, my org will never use Vercel or NextJs now.
Congrats President Trump šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Excited about the impact š•, prediction markets, citizen journalism, podcasts, and the open web played in fostering democracy and a free media. It's a new world.
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Going to be on bsky a lot more, and here a lot less.
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WaPo's endorsement finally drops.
6 Nov 2024
Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.
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Starting this morning off with a breakfast burrito. Gotta regroup.
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I’m not only disappointed, but also furious.
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Breaking news: I need a nap this afternoon to deal with whatever happens later
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5 Nov 2024
im pro immigration bc you need a tailor
5 Nov 2024
Atlas turns 1 today. You know what he wants for his birthday? For you to get out there and vote for Donald J. Trump for president (and his dad for veep)
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