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aspiring wise guy

[Mabintou @mabintou]

This is the stuff that really gets me going!

[walt @avalosie]

@nstlgiaxpress It’s an infectious part of American culture bc you just don’t see this in Europe. They don’t even have gyms!!!

[walt @avalosie]

Storied Canyon Coffee in LA is closed due to a failed health inspection. My heart

[walt @avalosie]

@oasishealthapp @michaelmiraflor Not gold standard 😭😭😭

[Oasis @oasishealthapp]

23 leading protein powders were just tested for heavy metals

– 70% had more lead in one serving than safe daily limits. some 10x over

– Plant-based powders averaged 9x more lead than dairy ones

– Naked Nutrition + Huel topped the list with 1,200–1,600% of CR’s safety limit

– Cadmium + arsenic also found in several products

[walt @avalosie]

Something is working in Denmark bc everyone had a newborn

[Michael J. Miraflor @michaelmiraflor]

Actively hating on new things (scenes, media, companies, genres, etc) without first experiencing or sampling said things is such a dumb quality for people to possess, yet people remain proud to broadcast their haterade on social media. A very millennial-coded behavior (?)

This also counts for when people are passive aggressive irreverent towards things that they don’t themselves appreciate. Like when someone says “the sportsball thing” in reference the Super Bowl. Like we get it, you don’t watch sports. Why direct attention towards it? Why be a hater? You are lame for not partaking in the enjoyment of something millions of other people enjoy. You are not better or more interesting because of it. You’re just not a curious person. You are a hater.

[Phillip Jackson @philwinkle]

the rebalancing of our defaults

[walt @avalosie]

Flight just landed from Paris safe and sound. Thank you @nathanfielder

[walt @avalosie]

Loved that Aminé reference to Hellogoodbye

[walt @avalosie]

@JacobKinge Oh he’s desperate desperate

[Jeff Sunday @TheDegenWeekly]

This might be the best SNL skit in the last 20 years

[walt @avalosie]

Need to see 7 games of Cleveland and Boston

[Spiros Xanthos @spirosx]

Nobody:

VCs on Twitter:

"I woke up at 4:30 AM to take my cold plunge, and my espresso machine made a weird noise. That noise reminded me that great founders are impossible to ignore. Disruption isn’t quiet.

Here are 7 lessons I learned from investing in high-growth, category-defining startups at Series A & beyond 🧵👇"

[walt @avalosie]

Half the catch up conversation with a friend from London being about the price of eggs and groceries. Feels like 2022 again

[walt @avalosie]

Gelo for the SuperBowl 60 halftime show

[blue @bluewmist]

I read a quote that said

“The faster that you do the hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the good things you actually want”

and that has changed my whole perspective.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

This chart is nuts. Software developer jobs down 70% from peak.

People will blame the end of free money. But something way more interesting is happening.

The middle class engineer is dying. And it's dying because they're not needed anymore.

One good dev with Github Copilot ships what entire teams did five years ago. Microsoft just reported the highest revenue per employee in history.

The "entry-level engineer" doesn't exist anymore.

Instead, we have product builders who happen to code. Armed with AI, they ship entire products in days.

Meanwhile, the truly elite engineers are making more money than ever.

And they've shifted to working mostly on frontier tech. I mean the stuff that's really hard.

AGI at OpenAI.
Designing rockets at SpaceX.
Self-driving car tech at Tesla.

Product builders are becoming solopreneurs and creators Frontier engineers are making hedge fund money

In 2025, "software engineer" doesn't mean what it meant in 2020.

And that's what this chart really shows.

The middle is gone. The top is elite status. And everyone else is becoming a builder.

[walt @avalosie]

Space X Falcon 9 launch, from echo park

[A.T. The Dallas Nightlife Ambassador @OhThatsAT]

We been sitting thru YEARS of watching Guns & Roses and Aerosmith or whoever at the Super Bowl. Yall gone be alright