Travis Tarr

Design Lead @ Airbnb.
Alum @BlaBlaCar, @JBFilms.
Lived in Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles.

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony for President

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. Way more than admit it. Within a year the median piece of writing could be by AI.

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@milkshakes4lyfe @AmericanFietser I love Montrose but that’s a photo of Telluride.

[sarah guo @saranormous]

secret to doing hard things: work with people who are fun when things are hard

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Twitter’s source code is full of libs. It’s time to get rid of them

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@michelletandler Love the @opalelectronics. Strong software too.

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@editingemily @laurieontech @allisonplus

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

people used to leave their house without a phone. like they would really just grab their wallet, their keys, and walk outside. totally unmediated reality, talking to strangers and shit, they would not even look back.

[BrokeAssStuart @BrokeAssStuart]

I love this city.

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@allisonplus More interesting than chocolates!

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@sama @paulg @OpenAI Or how to pursue and enjoy something that involves a unique combination of deep empathy, critical thinking, and physical talent...

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@sama @paulg @OpenAI 's progress is game changing. My two kids are 6 and 2. What are the most important things to teach them to enjoy life in the next 100 yrs?
1. How to ask really good questions
2. Deep sense of morality
3. How to create something from nothing
4. ???

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A valid heuristic for making decisions: Would it make the world more interesting to 4 year olds?

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@mikelove By Meeting 4 you’re just blasé about life.

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@mikelove It's a bustling metropolis at heart!

[Chris Frantz @frantzfries]

The new chatbot from OpenAI is actually insane

Replaced Google for work today

Now it’s giving great advice on games to play with my toddler tonight

I could see not needing to use Google again 💀

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Sports is a great way to discharge natural human jingoistic energies. If there is a world cup every year we might cease to have wars.

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@RobertIger @WaltDisneyCo The Mouse House!

[Rian Johnson @rianjohnson]

Screenwriting master class

[Travis Tarr @Ampelmann]

@antonnewcombe Happy Thanksgiving, man. Hope you’re doing up a proper feast like you did with Bourdain that one time.