Being the first child & the first generation in the US is a journey of its own. Creating your own path, personality, future without any resources isn’t easy. All your ideas and dreams are doubted by your own family, but guess what? I’m not here to be ordinary.

I need one (oddly simple but specific colored) large lollipop for content. Pls send recs

you can get a lot further in life if u just root for people instead of praying on their downfall btw

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

Product and marketing must live together, but have become weirdly separated Making a good product means knowing how to communicate the product's reason for being. This requires having contact with the market. @bchesky talks about how they're intertwined, but few others do so

PSA: Do not open your windows in Waymos. I was assaulted and robbed in a Waymo in the Mission District. I was punched three times in the face and head. Waymo treats criminals as pedestrians and stops moving, leaving you vulnerable. They gave me 5 free rides tho

My favorite part of Cercle.me is being able to quickly glance at my phone and know my friend’s latest moods💜 @cercleme

what i’ve learned is that you can burn out my body, you can make me hate the industry, but you can never steal the joy that the flow state of art and design brings me. we wake up every day and invent a new corner of the internet. how incredible is that????

i think it’s beautiful what you loved doing at 6 finds you again at 28

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

ego bruised bc im at a tech week event and nobody recognizes me

ladies, @itskasturiii and I walked around pac heights with a crabbing net for 30 min and were approached multiple times. higher ROI than a dog

Bros in tech are so severely starved for taste that a mere generic font that says nothing, splayed out in white and set to a neutral color garment is considered goated swag

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

Before people learned about brands and followed them Then people followed people bc they wanted to connect to a person over a brand. But influencers and people started feeling inauthentic Now brand awareness shifted to experiences. Make your own opinions from the experience you get offline.

I’m like the opposite of AI. It took me over half an hour to write a simple email, and I didn’t consume a single drop of water all day.

I hate to admit this but Trump was right. He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof. I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

this is badass omg

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 “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” 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.