AI nerd, bodybuilder, community leader, aspiring philosopher • Founder & Chairman @AICollectiveCo • Fellow @SusaVentures • Advisor @Roam • x-@Apple x-@Meta
Joined April 2022
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Jun 12
Did the internet make competition more perfect, or more concentrated?
Ideas travel faster. Small companies reach further. Memes get tested in public.
But the largest players have more distribution, capital, and algorithmic gravity than anyone before them.
More competition at the bottom. More lock-in at the top.
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Jun 11
I spend $2,500 per year on 20 daily supplements.
Ridiculous? Maybe a little 😅
But this is one of the dorkier parts of my routine that I love!
I care a lot about feeling good: training hard, sleeping well, working intensely, and generally staying healthy.
So over the past 3 years I've researched, experimented, and built a whole supplement stack!
☀️ Day stack
1️⃣ Creatine, collagen, vitamin D, fish oil, multivitamins, greens powder, and psyllium husk for recovery, tendons, cholesterol, micronutrients, digestion.
2️⃣ Alpha GPC, maca root, tongkat ali, beta-carotene, and fadogia agrestis. This is the more experimental layer. Some of it I have higher conviction on, some of it is more of a beta test.
💤 Night stack
Magnesium, glycine, L-theanine, melatonin, ashwagandha, myo-inositol, apigenin, tart cherry. This one is all about telling my body that it's time to REST!
None of this replaces the real foundations: sleep, lifting, nutrition, sunlight, and a routine that I actually look forward to.
But once the basics are in place, I do think the last 10% matters. A little better sleep, a little better recovery, and a little more consistency all compound!
Would not recommend copying my stack blindly. I’m a competitive natural bodybuilder with a weirdly early schedule and a highly restrictive diet, so my needs are probably not your needs.
But I would recommenñd taking your body seriously!
It is very hard to build a great life while feeling tired, inflamed, under-recovered, or out of sync all the time.
Health is one of the highest-leverage forms of self-respect.
And also, organizing pills into little containers is weirdly satisfying! 💊
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Jun 10
"Taste is when your judgement is so good and intuitive that you can’t explain it" ~ @naval
Damn how is this the most spot-on definition of taste I've ever heard
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Jun 10
I’ve been thinking about how to do better than Dunbar’s famous number: 150.
Over time, I’ve settled on this mental map for my network:
S – Inner Ring (2-8 people) best friends and family. Daily check-ins!
A – Core (10-25) close friends and collaborators. Generally a weekly rhythm
B – Strong ties / active network (25–150) intros, dinners, projects, ~monthly check-ins
C – Warm periphery (150-500) light context so reconnecting feels natural
D – Weak ties / long tail (500-5000) meaningful past context but no cadence
E – Ambient / dormant (10,000 ) connected on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, shared group chats etc.
Curious how others think about their network! (or maybe I’m ~over~thinking it 😅)
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Jun 8
Oh hey that thing I worked on at @Apple a few years ago is finally coming out! Shoutout to App Intents!
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Jun 8
Productivity GAME CHANGER: Sunsama weekly → daily planning → time blocking!
Many of my friends call me a productivity geek and I’ve built some pretty crazy systems over the years to make sure I’m making the best and highest use of my time.
It started in college when I read “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” which introduced me to production vs production capacity (P vs PC) and the Eisenhower Matrix (important or not, urgent or not).
From there, I built my tracking up to the point where I had 11 different todo lists I was pulling from 😅
Around two years ago I was encouraged by a friend (@bfspector) to build a more streamlined system.
This forms the foundation of how I allocate 100 hours/week, so I wanted to get this right. After researching for hours and testing 5-10 different solutions, I settled on Sunsama.
At first it felt too opinionated. But as I started to mold my mind around its workflows, everything started to click into place. Daily todo lists. Scheduled tasks. Workstream channels. Weekly planning. And finally… time tracking time blocking!!
Time tracking & time blocking feels like the pinnacle of the productivity system I’ve been towards for over half a decade now.
Just didn’t expect it to take so long to finally turn it into a habit 😅
If you’re juggling more than ever and want to ensure you’re making the best and highest use of your time, I HIGHLY recommend giving @sunsamaHQ a try!
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Jun 7
“It’s not that AI is going to replace software engineers, it’s that AI is going to let software engineers replace everyone else.” ~ @naval
Diving deep building personal agent systems these past few months has made this feel more and more inevitable
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Jun 7
One-shotting multiple deployed production-grade websites using nothing besides Notion docs, Claude Code, reference codebases, Github Vercel Neon CLIs, and nifty prompting is a truly magical experience
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Jun 7
EARLY SUMMER UPDATE: cutting for show → bulking for lifetime PR milestones! 📈🤩
As some of you know, I recently transitioned to starting a new AI startup! Super energized with how it’s coming along, but also means I have to learn to fully accept tradeoffs…
My last post was about July bodybuilding show prep. I was excited to give cutting down to 185 one last go, knowing full well there was a slim chance I’d make it.
Last time I did a show, I made a HUGE tradeoff for ~3mo – coasting at work (Apple) to channel every last ounce of focus and willpower on the show. It was well worth it!! I’ve now tried 3 more times since, and as alluring as it is, I’ve decided it rationally isn’t worth jeopardizing my career momentum for one more show.
Bittersweet.
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Jun 7
However, that doesn’t mean I have to stop making weightlifting progress!
In March, I switched to bulking aggressively and am now back back up to peak weight – 223.5 this week! (see weight log)
And that means it’s PR SZN!! 😤
Over the past few weeks I’ve had some of my most intense lifts ever – HUGE MOGGING!!
My lifetime PR goals are a 500lb 1RMe bench (10x372) and a 600lb 1RMe squat (10x450). These are likely terminal / pinnacle milestones since I’m now ~9 years into highly optimized lifting and dieting and am within ~5% of my estimated lifetime genetic strength potential.
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Jun 7
Now is the time to finally hit these!! I’m bulking until I hit both (within reason – likely until end of June)
Since I’m now 27 and redlining my genetic peak, the main challenge is increasingly becoming dealing with nagging injuries like muscle and tendon strains 🥲
P.S. check out weightlifting.chappyasel.com – I built a site a few months ago that pulls my data weekly from Weightlifting App to more easily share with others!
Stay tuned!! 🫶
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Jun 5
Been feeling extra grateful for the @AICollectiveCo team this week!
What started as a few people in a SF apartment has become a global team of 650 builders, chapter leads, organizers, advisors, and volunteers carrying this movement in rooms all around the world.
Every city, every event, every intro, every late-night planning doc, every “how can I help?” has pushed this further than I ever could have imagined.
It is the honor of my life to build alongside this team.
Thank you for growing the movement, championing the human side of AI, and reminding me again and again that the future gets built by people who care enough to show up.
Onwards and upwards!!
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Jun 4
Yesterday, I gave the fullest version yet of the core philosophy behind @AICollectiveCo.
The short version:
The Collective exists because AI is moving faster than our institutions, communities, and social systems know how to handle.
Our first event in Feb 2023 was a small living room meetup in SF. We were so nerdy about hosting it that we read The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, copied the name tags, icebreakers, harmonica intro, everything 😄
By our third event, 250 people had signed up. By the end of that first year, we had hosted 50 events in 40 weeks.
Today, AIC has grown into 250k members across 200 chapters and 50 countries.
The question I wanted to answer yesterday was simple:
Why?
Why are a quarter million people gathering around AI in rooms like this all over the world?
I gave three answers:
1️⃣ The modern Homebrew Club
Innovation moves faster together.
The original Homebrew Computer Club helped people figure out personal computing while it was still weird, early, and undefined. In 2023, we were doing the same for AI.
2️⃣ Belonging
For me, AI Collective became the place where I found my people.
I only like to talk about AI. It is most of what I do 😅
These rooms became the place where that stopped feeling weird, and where so many of my closest friendships started.
3️⃣ Pioneers on the frontier of human progress
This is the deepest one.
We are living through a compounding set of S-curves: computing, the internet, mobile, social media, AI, and now agentic systems all stacking on each other.
The rate of technological change keeps accelerating.
Human adaptive capacity does not move the same way.
That gap is where trust breaks.
Trust in institutions, technology, media, each other. Gallup tracks 62 indicators of trust, and 60 are at or near all-time lows.
I do not think the answer is blame.
The deeper issue is that paleolithic emotional creatures are working through medieval institutions while playing with god-like technology.
That is a hard setup!!
For AIC, the answer starts with two things:
Nearness and co-creation.
Nearness means putting people back in rooms together and building shared humanity around the most important technology of our lifetimes.
Co-creation means creating forums where people can wrestle with hard questions, surface battle-tested insights, and slowly upgrade the systems around us.
That is the part I believe will become magnitudes more important over the coming years.
As AI gets more powerful, the human side of AI matters more.
The rooms matter more.
The conversations matter more.
The shared trust, shared agency, and shared story matter more.
I clipped 4 minutes from the talk that starts to get into the 3 reasons above. Full video in the comments, and I will share the deck once it is uploaded.
This is the deepest I have gone publicly on why AIC exists, what we believe, and the role I hope this community can play in the years ahead.
We are all stewards of the future in some small way.
Onwards and upwards!! 🚀
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Jun 3
4,226 voices have already been recorded across 147 Humans in AI Week events happening around the world this week.
I do not think I would have believed that three years ago.
In early 2023, a small group of us were sitting in a cozy San Francisco apartment trying to make sense of ChatGPT, AGI, and what this all meant for the world.
The technology felt historic. The thing I remember most was the feeling in the room.
People were thinking out loud. Changing their minds. Admitting confusion. Getting excited. Getting scared. Finding language together.
That night became @AICollectiveCo.
Three years later, this community has grown to 250,000 members, 200 chapters, 1,700 events, and 650 volunteer organizers around the world.
This week, that same instinct is becoming Humans in AI Week: June 1–7, 2026, across 100 cities and 50 countries.
A global time capsule for the AI era.
The question is simple:
What does it mean to be human in the AI era?
The answers are messy. That is the point.
Some people are excited. Some are scared. Some feel behind. Some feel superpowered. Most of us are carrying a few contradictory feelings at once.
That is why I still believe so much in rooms full of real people.
Online, AI discourse collapses into extremes. In person, the temperature changes. People listen longer. The anxious parts get named with more care. The optimistic parts become less abstract. You remember there is a person behind every position.
That has always been the magic of this community.
We can gather frontier builders, curious newcomers, artists, students, founders, policy people, educators, and skeptics into the same conversation, then let the room do what the internet usually cannot: slow people down enough to hear each other.
Humans in AI Week feels like the culmination of 3 years of learning how to create those rooms.
For me personally, this is also a handoff moment. I stepped back from leading The AI Collective because the community had become bigger than any one person, and because AJ, Catherine, and the team were ready to carry it into its next chapter. Watching them turn the original spark into something this global is SO special.
Deeply grateful to @AJs_AI, @catrosemcmillan, our chapter leads, our volunteers, our partners, and every person showing up or adding their voice this week.
This is what we built the community for.
Onwards and upwards!! 🚀
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Chappy Asel retweeted
AI software doesn’t need to keep eating human interaction. AI hardware shouldn’t be ur “friend”
Thats why we’re launching
Sticker Camera: to build AI for IRL.
its a completely new type of object on which you can capture, edit, and create art in the physical world
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May 28
Congrats to @frank_liquid and team! @TJHSST_Official mafia goes hard 😤
May 26
Introducing Co-Invest. (@coinvestai)
The first way to trade directly through ChatGPT and Claude.
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May 28
Pope Leo and Christopher Olah just asked the question underneath the entire AI transition:
What does it mean to be human in the AI era?
That is the question @AICollectiveCo has been making room for since the beginning.
AI is moving too quickly for any of us to metabolize alone. Reading about it online mostly creates anxiety. Being in a room with other thoughtful people actually helps you process what is happening, build language for it, and decide where you have agency.
That is the human layer I think AI needs.
For the past three years, AIC has been one big experiment in building that layer. 250,000 people across 200 chapters, from frontier researchers to founders to students to local organizers, trying to make sense of this technology together.
I have been calling this “civic middleware” because that is genuinely what it feels like we need more of: connective tissue between labs, policymakers, builders, and everyone else whose life is going to be shaped by AI.
The Pope’s Babel / Jerusalem framing is useful because it makes the stakes feel concrete. AI can become a force that centralizes power, abstracts away human judgment, and leaves most people feeling like spectators. Or it can become something we collectively shape toward human flourishing.
That second path requires more than regulation and lab alignment. It requires communities with enough trust, technical literacy, and shared context to turn local experience into collective intelligence.
That is what still gives me so much energy about the Collective!
People do not just want yet another panel or newsletter. They want a place to make sense of the weirdest, fastest technological transition of our lifetimes with other humans who are paying attention.
The highest calling of the Collective is to help society build the shared context, trust, and participatory muscle to make AI genuinely human-friendly.
And we are less than 1% of the way there. Onwards!
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May 27
Congrats to @StanfordLaw liftlab and especially @PKelaita! Big man doing big things!
May 27
Announcing JudgmentBench – a dataset we at @StanfordLaw liftlab developed along with @harvey and @SnorkelAI that evaluates frontier LLM work product.
The dataset contains 30 real-world tasks crafted by Biglaw attorneys paired with >3000 rubric and preference expert annotations.
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