Kisha Mavryck Richardson 🛸✨

Founder, Builder, Engineering Leader, Nomad
- Intelligence & Deep Learning Systems
- Science Fiction, Travel + Sketch Comedy
- Greenhouse & IOT Systems

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

Quantum Entanglement is difficult to picture because the correlations belong to the quantum state as a whole, and not to little signals travelling between particles.

Here, I represent a many-body quantum state as a changing graph and hypergraph. Pairwise correlations form the luminous links

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Connect with other New Yorkers and meet new friends by exploring this week's NYC summer events.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen online today. It’s lovely 💯

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

My biggest takeaways from @Netflix's Chief Product and Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone:

1. Elizabeth believes that “systems thinking” is becoming the most important skill in the AI era. In engineering and product, this means people who can see across business domains and build the common capabilities that let many teams move quickly. In design, it means experience designers who create templates and design systems so that non-designers can ship work that stays coherent and on-brand. The underlying driver is velocity: when more people are doing more types of work at higher speed, you need to be good at building common scaffolding.

2. Systems thinking is learnable: zoom out one level from your specific problem. Given a task, step back one click—what bigger problem does this serve the business, will it scale across the product surface areas, should it become a platform capability? The companion habit: do your job in a way that helps your manager do theirs. This will force you to think about how all the pieces fit together.

3. Expect a storming phase before a forming phase. The role confusion people feel right now (“What is my job anymore?”) is the predictable middle of any transformative technology. Elizabeth’s advice: focus on high-quality source-of-truth data, guardrails on what ships, and constant internal reinforcement that humans own what they create.

4. The top AI labs converged on Netflix’s culture. High agency, high talent density, top-of-market pay, bottom-up thinking, fast experiments—the traits Lenny hears constantly from AI labs were in Netflix’s early culture deck. Elizabeth’s explanation: excellence comes from hiring exceptional people, trusting them to do great work, and holding them accountable.

5. Netflix’s culture is centered around building “excellence as an operating system.” High talent density, radical transparency, context not control, and the keeper’s test. These work together to create an environment of trust and accountability, without bureaucracy. But it’s also uncomfortable. It requires tolerating people making decisions you’d make differently, resisting the reflex to add process when things go wrong, and letting people carry the weight of their own choices. Elizabeth describes the hardest part as “being comfortable in that discomfort.”

6. The keeper’s test is as much about recognizing great people as it is about removing the wrong ones. The test—“If this person told me they were leaving, would I fight to keep them?”—is often cited in its difficult form: the moment you realize someone isn’t the right fit. But Elizabeth uses it predominantly as an entry point for honest performance conversations that are deeply positive. Most of the time the answer is “I would fight so hard to keep you,” which creates the opening to articulate strengths, discuss impact, and name what’s working. Good feedback hygiene needs a forcing function; the keeper’s test provides one.

7. Specialization is trending down—adaptable generalists are trending up. We’re shifting away from narrow stack-layer specialists (pure frontend, pure backend) toward people who can navigate fluidly across layers. The same logic applies to business domain knowledge: the mindset of “I’m a payments expert, full stop” is less valuable than “I know payments well enough and I’m willing to imagine what the future version of this looks like.” The meta-skill is learning to learn, not locking into a single lane.

8. Netflix’s approach to AI fluency is a universal principle, not a level-specific expectation. Rather than rewriting career ladders to specify what AI competence looks like at each level, Netflix added a single aspiration across all roles and levels: AI fluency. What fluency means varies by function and seniority, but the non-negotiable minimum is the same everywhere—an open-minded, experimental mindset, genuine curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity.

[Okayplayer @okayplayer]

📹NORF SIDE (VISUALS)
👤JILL SCOTT
👤TIERRA WHACK
🚨OUT NOW

[Camden Stewart @camdenstewarts]

Jeff Goldblum reacts to my original composition "Love"

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Essence Fest, you all certainly showed up tonight! I had such a great time chatting with @KekePalmer about my book #TheLook, this next chapter in my life, our journeys as Black women, and so much more. Thanks so much for all the love! 

And for those who couldn’t make it to New Orleans — can’t wait for you to catch our conversation soon on @imopodcasts!

[The Associated Press @AP]

When something breaks, most of us replace it. At this Brooklyn repair cafe, volunteers are helping neighbors fix everything from lamps and jeans to vintage fans and old smartwatches for free. The events are part of a growing global movement to reduce waste, save money and bring back repair skills that many people say have been lost.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen.

If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: https://t.co/ovcyLePA9P

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

.@TemsBaby and I met with some aspiring artists at the Obama Presidential Center’s new Media Suite! Barack and I hope this Media Suite will become a place where young people can find their voice, learn about music, and make beautiful art.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

bringing the trophy to NYC 🏆

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do?

Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

https://t.co/Nb8rOAGO4T is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you.

Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them. 


[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Great spending time with New York City’s Cutest. And thanks to @NYCMayor for giving me an excuse to break out my best “Wheels on the Bus”

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

BREAKING🚨: Starting February 17, 2026, Earth enters what astronomers are calling a "golden age" of solar eclipses.

Over the next three years, six solar eclipses will sweep across the planet: three "ring of fire" annular eclipses and three total solar eclipses, all between 2026 and 2028.

[𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚃𝙴 𝚁𝙰𝙱𝙱𝙸𝚃 @thewhiterabbit]

This guy, named Nathanialpov, used to play the sax regularly in empty tunnels and parking lots.

One day after he went viral; he now has hundreds of people seeking out where he performs and waiting for him to arrive to listen to him...

This too, is America 🎷♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ﾟ.

[Santiago @svpino]

Learn how to build software.

Invest all you have in it. Go broke if you have to. Get in trouble with your boss if that's your only choice.

Because once you know how to build things, nobody can stop you.

Because AI is a multiplier, and the stronger you are, the more it will benefit you.

[PJ MORTON @PJMORTON]

💔🕊️ Thank You.

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Dear New Orleans,

In collaboration with ESSENCE and Edward Buckles, the “Dear New Orleans” film honors the spirit of Black New Orleans, giving the city its flowers while celebrating those who keep its traditions alive.

This is more than a tribute; Dear New Orleans celebrates a culture that continues to thrive. From the city’s beauty and resilience to its culture, traditions, and people, it’s a heartfelt celebration of the people and traditions that make New Orleans one of a kind.

Watch Dear New Orleans on the ESSENCE YouTube page.