Grayson Boone

Industrial Engineer applying systems-thinking to tech, AI, and biohacking. Documenting my journey. Miami model.

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

You might know me as an engineer, health-nut, or a model.

But I'm on a new journey: learning software & AI from the ground up.

I'm "building in public"—sharing the wins, (many) frustrations, & "aha" moments.

Follow for tech & systems-thinking.

#BuildInPublic #AI #TechJourney

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

If you are asking “Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?” I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don’t want to see that happen to AI. Public opinion matters, and it shouldn’t be ceded unchallenged.

If you are asking “Why should I support AI efforts at all?” I believe we are in the midst of a transition more vibrant than the industrial revolution. Opinions formed a couple of years ago about the uselessness of AI are no longer valid. Millions of people and organizations are getting great returns from using it, and the demand for data centers is the market responding to the value signal. That is how progress is made!

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

This 💯

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

When I first became a dad I was genuinely worried my career would suffer.

The opposite happened. 3 things changed that I wasn't expecting.

First, a child cuts the filler from your life instantly.

I used to sit at my desk for 14 hours and feel like I was crushing it when in reality maybe 4 of those hours were actual work and the rest was meetings that didn't need to happen, scroll sessions I told myself were research, and "quick calls" that turned into 90 minutes of nothing. A child deletes all of that overnight.

Because you literally don't have the time anymore. Every hour matters in a way it didn't before. You could be with your kid, working on your startup, exercising, having dinner with your wife, sleeping. When your time is actually full of things you care about, the filler can't survive. I'm shipping more now than before my kid was born. Half the meetings. Faster decisions.

I stopped saying yes to things out of politeness because my time has a very real cost now that I can feel in my bones.

Second, your risk tolerance goes up, not down.

Everyone assumes having a kid makes you play it safe. For me it created this urgency to build something real while my kid is young enough to not remember the hard parts. That urgency is more useful than any productivity system I've ever tried.

Third, your thinking just gets clearer.

I don't know how else to explain it. You stop deliberating for days and just make the call. You stop chasing every opportunity and only chase the ones that actually excite you.

Something about being responsible for another human being gives you this filter that cuts through the noise instantly. Before my kid, I'd go back and forth on a decision for a week. Now I make it by lunch and move on.

I used to think having a kid was the thing I'd do after I built the company. Turns out the kid made me better at building the company. Wish someone had told me that sooner. So I'm telling you.

I know this sounds like something a new dad says to justify it. I thought the same thing when other dads told me. Then it happened to me and I understood.

I think you will too.

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

@mentalquestion_ @MattWalshBlog Frontiersmen: the Men who built America

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

@MattWalshBlog As a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, I completely support this 🙌🏼 a man of legends!

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

Miami is a great place to raise children and build a family, despite the urban myths about its supposed incompatibility.

There are public playgrounds everywhere, the weather is fantastic for sports and outdoor activities during their development and growth; on Saturdays you can use bank card programs to visit children’s museums.

You have the ocean, great weather… perhaps the only thing missing to make it perfect would be an improvement in public schools.

But it is, quite literally, a city full of activities for families and kids.

I always hear people say that Miami is full of superficial people with no family ambitions. That could not be further from reality. I think those who see it that way are simply not interacting with the right people.

[Javarevisited @javarevisited]

Manager: We lost our best engineer today.

CEO: The one leading payments?

Manager: Yes.

CEO: Did another company offer more money?

Manager: No.

CEO: Then why leave?

Manager: He said he was tired of fixing the same production issues every week.

CEO: That’s part of the job.

Manager: He didn’t mind fixing issues. He minded that nobody wanted to fix the root cause.

CEO: We prioritized speed.

Manager: He wanted quality.

CEO: So he left over that?

Manager: He left because he felt like a firefighter, not an engineer.

Good engineers don’t just want to solve problems.
They want to eliminate them.

[GrowingMiami 🦩 🌴 @growingmiami]

Absolutely incredible statistic 🤯

West Palm Beach 🏖️ is doing more office construction than either Houston, Austin, or the entire state of New Jersey.

As well as 60% (1.6M vs 2.7M) of all of Manhattan.

But with a population only 127,000.

Populations of regions on chart, can you spot the odd one out? 🤔

Population:

Boston - 673,458
Manhattan - 1,660,664
Dallas - 1,326,087
Los Angeles - 3,878,704
🏖️ West Palm Beach - 127,744
Austin - 993,588
San Diego - 1,404,452
New Jersey (state) - 9,548,215
Houston - 2,390,125

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

@jordan_ross_8F Openclaw

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

@saif305 @FannieMae @JRupena @milocredit Amazing inspo! 👊🏼

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

Miami’s Baywalk is finally getting its missing link: a 600-ft pedestrian bridge under I-395.
Love seeing the city iterate and patch its real-world infrastructure gaps. Who else is running this the day it opens? 🌉🏃‍♂️

https://t.co/KXMHqrkzfx

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

My consumption is following a similar breakdown. Been really enjoying some "old" books from the 90s. Just finished Technopoly and starting Lean Thinking. The former is an amazingly insightful read that grants a lot of socioeconomic perspective on the past 5 years.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.

[Small Cap Snipa @SmallCapSnipa]

Jeff Bezos wants AI to approve Miami building permits in 10 seconds:

“Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit and it should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.”

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

@DanushkaStanley How do you think AMD's Strix Halo stacks up? I've been eyeing the framework desktop 👌🏼

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

@Motion_Viz System

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

We often confuse a "Growth Mindset" with positive thinking.

It’s actually just data processing.

A Fixed Mindset hides the error logs to protect the ego. A Growth Mindset exposes the bugs so the system can actually upgrade.

[Saif Ishoof 3️⃣☕️5️⃣ @saif305]

I think people far too often mischaracterize a growth mindset as optimism.

It’s actually a willingness to look stupid in public and learn faster than your peers.

[Grayson Boone @BooneTheLoon]

Spot on! In Dweck’s framework, the "Fixed Mindset" treats failure as an indictment of ability. You end up hiding ignorance to protect your ego.

The "Growth Mindset" treats failure as data. It’s not just optimism, it’s leveraging the mechanics of iteration. You have to be willing to break the code (and your ego) to upgrade the system.

[Saif Ishoof 3️⃣☕️5️⃣ @saif305]

$10M from Stephen Ross + Ken Griffin just dropped to tell the world what many already know:

Florida’s Gold Coast (Miami ↔ WPB) is now America’s #1 place to build & scale the next big thing.

The stats:

#1 GDP growth among major metros past 3 years

#1 new business formations per capita

No state income tax + 30% lower gas/utilities

Top-tier talent pouring in (#3 attraction)

Ross: “The next generation of companies belongs here.”

Griffin: “Deep talent, regulatory clarity, extraordinary quality of life.”

The old legacy cities had their moment.
This is the new one.

[Ryan RC Rea @volvoshine]

👀 👀 👀
🚀 🚀 🌴 🌴
#Miami #florida

[DHH @dhh]

I never get tired of the Omarchy screensaver 😍