Avi Millman

Pibble owner. Startup I suppose. Mets / Arsenal fan. New Yorker now living in Boulder, CO.

[Morgante @morgantepell]

It's astonishing that Gemini still can't even edit Google Sheets. How can Google be fumbling this badly?

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

On our Camino trek, tonight we stopped in Pontevedra, Spain.

a few mins into walking around we both noted this city felt weirdly great and alive (yet not chaotic) in a way other cities just don’t

Busy plazas, kids running around, people sitting outside, restaurants spilling into the streets. It felt like the city was built for humans.

It wasn’t immediately clear why it was this way so I asked chat what was going on and got a great answer (paraphrased)

In 1999, a new mayor made a very controversial bet: the city center should be for people, not parked cars.

He moved fast. Pontevedra removed street parking, eliminated most through-traffic, and kept only the useful car access: residents, deliveries, taxis, emergencies.

At first, people hated it.

Store owners were absolutely furious. The obvious objection was: if customers can’t park at the curb, they won’t come.

But then people actually lived with the change and really liked it

The city got calmer, safer, more walkable, less polluted, and more alive. Foot traffic replaced car traffic and businesses got busier than ever.

The mayor keeps getting reelected, still there 27 years later (he’s Spain’s longest serving mayor among large cities)

Of all the cities we’ve visited on this trip through Europe, Pontevedra (which I had not heard of before) is the liveliest, a hidden gem!

I don’t think every city should ban cars, but it seems obvious that cities get a lot better when the best public space is used for people instead of car storage.

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@pitdesi Legend of obscure but useful references. Sheelcyclopedia

[Tom Toro @TTomTToro]

@TheEconomist

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Such great marketing. Reminds me of when this shoe company got the NBA to ban their shoes for making you jump too high

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@OfficialLoganK Have you considered integrating your distribution with your power in stupidly obvious ways? Do you need ideas? Would you consider listening to a few?

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@wolfejosh @wolfejosh you care about the folks invested in indexes?

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

I think you're going to see it's all going to converge back to screens and data and panels and buttons.

People don't want to ask the same question over and over. They'll ask something, it'll be set up to show something, and that thing will be saved as something they can always look at. Stable pre-defined glances, not blank slates each time. Common questions will become buttons and panels again.

Most people ask the same kinds of questions about what they work on most of the time. Having to start from scratch with the questions every time seems like a step backwards.

Another way to put this: Questions are wonderful for a deeper dive, but not a daily drive.

Not sure you're suggesting questions always, but the comparison screenshots looked that way.

[Einar Vollset 🇳🇴🇺🇸 @einarvollset]

This.

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@garrytan The problem is the system and incentives. That’s the whole problem. Doctors and admin are some of the smartest and most caring in the world. But the incentives and how everyone makes money is the problem. Creating tech is not actually the hardest part

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@WillManidis Cool take. But isn’t there a third that it’s priced for, hold, wait, and see.

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@OfficialLoganK @rezoundous How does your enterprise Gemini UX not have a way to organize or delete chats. At the very least archive them. It makes repeat usage completely untenable. Gemini is not truly integrated in any real sense of the word. The gaps are so obvious and have been there for ages

[Opta Analyst @OptaAnalyst]

A week after Mikel Arteta was appointed as manager, Arsenal sank to their lowest position in the history of the Opta Power Rankings (since 2010), ranked 27th in the world.

They have spent most of 2026 ranked as the best team in the world.

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@pitdesi @pitdesi why is that answer regarding general capitalism dynamics ok when the question was about what is good for society. Which was a bigger question? Generally I feel like you see the forest for the trees on these things.

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@nathanclark_ you ship your org chart has never been truer

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@Johnsjawn who hurt you?

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@sarahstrobes out of line. he came to win FA cups and league cup dubs.

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@PoznanInMyPants @BukayoSaka87 duuuuuuude

[Avi Millman @AviMillman]

@buccocapital Product hunt vibes

[Paul Graham @paulg]

What? It's not sufficient to park their money in an index fund or a blind trust? Lawmakers need to be active traders to take care of their families?