SF was over if not for OpenAI and Anthropic!
Before that, it was over if not for Stripe, Uber, Airbnb, Twitter, Salesforce, Visa, Gap... and if you go back a bir further - Levi's, Bank of California, Spreckels Sugar, Wells Fargo, Union Iron Works, Southern Pacific :)
The city gets “saved” by the next boom every time. After the gold rush, there was silver, railroads, shipping, banks, sugar, utilities, Pacific trade, defense, semis, PCs, biotech, enterprise software, the internet, social, mobile, SaaS, fintech, crypto, and AI.
I think that's just how it goes in this town.
This is a plan for Phase 2 of the National Security Renaissance: Project Alexander. It proposes a national security asset class to accelerate the effective and efficient deployment of capital into technologies vital to the nation's security. 🇺🇸
Our Congress, Treasury Department, and private citizenry have the power today to enact critical reforms that will have an immediate and transformational impact on American innovation.
All feedback welcome! 🧵1/14
on today's episode of Swole as a Service i brought dearest @mirandanover of @Fort to the gym to do a leg workout (she did it. i'm not beating the skips leg day allegations).
we talked all things fitness wearables
also naturally on a leg day i made her hit chest with max pushups in 60s...
00:30 Leg day schedule
00:53 Back squats + Why isn’t there a device for strength training?
02:00 Hip thrusts + What do fitness wearables track?
04:45 Bulgarian split squats + How will fitness wearables change our lives?
06:16 The Chestmaxxer Challenge + The future of fitness wearables
Last year, I was sad to see how much support the essay AI as Normal Technology got.
I think it has significant weaknesses and that those weaknesses support downplaying risks we should be preparing for.
Weekend project with @baelentina_: There are 77,100 people flying on United right now.
We scraped the total # of unoccupied United seats and merged it with ADS-B data.
peoples reactions to visual design are a rorschach test that tells you so much about what they’ve been exposed to and what their associations are. its semiotic truth serum that will only get more legible as algorithms become more siloed
the incredible @AshleyAPelzel is hiring an EA at @AstroMechanica — if you are a world-class operator who can own calendar, communications & logistics for our exec team, DM me 👇