Scott Sowers

Follower of Christ. Husband. Father of two girls. Glen Park for life. Ex Campfire, PostHog, Mux, Dropbox

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@paularambles Millennials got old and started playing pickle ball with their parents

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@davidrgoldberg @StevenMeyer It only launched in FL last Dec. because insurance not available in all states. FSD strikes likely affect your rate 😆

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The flybys will continue until morale improves.

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this noise ruined my calls yesterday btw

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@PeterJ_Walker This feels relevant https://t.co/nxF1iVVN2z

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https://t.co/tTtQwkYVDO

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@barbinbrad People are asking to do more with less

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@RooktoRep Always follow up on inbound leads. Always.

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@alexadelman The inside part yes, the outside part probably not

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@CoastalFuturist Palisade looks much better IMO

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@davepl1968 Excellent

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@CoastalFuturist Booking flights is hard if you’re over-optimizing for price, which is a 20-something’s mentality, and the “productivity” agents are largely designed by 20-somethings, with their own problems in mind

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@cessupplyguy1 @dhh @Delta @united There’s still time! https://t.co/nuT58JeXdc

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@dhh @Delta @united Made the move from Diamond Medallion to Premiere 1K last year and haven’t looked back.

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@TheSalesRoo Nicotine helps a lot too

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Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.

(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.

(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.

(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.

(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.

(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.

(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.

As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.

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@rsg But you can get a sandwich and a bad coffee from the bodega at 3am. Where else can you do that?

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@CoastalFuturist You should do the first two, for sure.

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@sam_gzstrength To be honest, unless the guy has close nephews or nieces, we probably shouldn't want a lot of single men changing diapers. Just a bit weird.

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@Kazanjy PostHog has a great sales team

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@CoastalFuturist Hah, walked by this tonight with Alex and Sachin and wondered what was up

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@Chris_Orlob Classic. Been there