Andrew Callahan

Entrepreneur & Developer

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

A while back, I was talking with a friend who'd moved to the US a few years prior

At some point, I said something like "we Americans..." and he froze with shock. He asked, "Wait, do you think of me as American?" Without much thought, I said "Of course!"

He paused for a while and then said, "Wow. Back home no one would ever refer to a recent immigrant that way. Heck, they wouldn't refer to any immigrant that way, even if they'd lived there for decades"

While the US has a lot of problems (many of which are our own making), this moment made me swell with joy and pride for this special place

Happy birthday, America. I'm so proud to be the citizen of a country where, if you choose to build your life here and contribute to your community, you can become an American too 🇺🇸

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

What if there was a way to:
• Mitigate climate change
• Create more life
• Grow the economy
• And make money along the way?

Let's call it *Seaflooding*

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

"The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy estimates it would cost just over $24 billion to have prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease."

This is a huge bargain and it’s insane that we’re not fully funding it.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One of the things AI coding assistants are showing us is how much duplication there is in the code that's out there. Most people just write the same stuff over and over.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We will take any amount of chronic pain to avoid a moment of acute pain.

[Andrew Callahan @andrewcallahan]

@_AndrewCallahan Oh no! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Will DM you now.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Hey @elonmusk - you now have the power to bring back Vine. Seriously. Vine ruled AND it'll be a TikTok killer. #BringBackVine

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[Sam Altman @sama]

trying to make the price of housing go up over time instead of down is one of the most destructive policies i can imagine, and makes ~everything worse.

so many things would get better if we could get this one thing right.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Almost everyone chooses permanent chronic pain over temporary acute pain.

[move 37 @pm]

Programmers take vacations to program.

[Andrew Callahan @andrewcallahan]

@balajis andrewcallahan.eth

[Sam Altman @sama]

We can build AGI. We can colonize space. We can get fusion to work and solar to mass scale. We can cure all human disease. We can build new realities.

We are only a few breakthroughs away from abundance at a scale that is difficult to imagine.

[Balaji @balajis]

This is a Renaissance painting.
No, the opposite of a Renaissance.
Dégringolade.
20 years.
2 stalls.
A full press conference.
A toilet paper ribbon.
No scissors.
Idiocratically oblivious pride in this “accomplishment”.
And a model that is being exported all over America.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Believe in the future!

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

we need a word for the deep sadness of knowing you won’t be here to witness the future

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

"I know not with what weapons web3 will be made, but web4 will be made with a series of tubes"

- Albert Einstein

[Sam Altman @sama]

The single best policy for another American Century is to roll out the red carpet for 100 million of the most talented immigrants in the world.

Talent is evenly distributed; it is one of the great own goals of all time that so much of it wants to be the US and we say no.

[shira @shiraeis]

So many ideas. Such little time. So much ADHD.