Doug

Hardware, startup universe, and technology stuff.

Vice President @FlightWaveAero (@RedCatHoldings) | @AmazonLab126 | @LightformInc | @DAQRI AR | #FightOn ✌️

[Doug @cleverslogan]

😂😂😂

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla has said.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

@bznotes At least they tried 🙃

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In Australia, your tax return breaks down exactly how your taxes are spent.

Should this be the standard around the world?

[Doug @cleverslogan]

Baby steps folks. How about build anything at all, anywhere near anyone. Remember this is the city that took 30 years to finish a bus lane on Van Ness.

[Harris Rothaermel @DeveloperHarris]

It's time to build the bay area megacity.

- rapid transportation (both intercity and intracity)
- high density
- high walkability
- enough housing to have 100 million+
- the home of 10+ trillion dollar companies
- underground hyperlogistics + robotic network
- capital of tech, hardware, bio, education, etc
- produce so much energy we export it to others

[Doug @cleverslogan]

The Vision Pro by itself may not be light-years ahead of Magic Leap or Hololens, but when when the Apple flywheels get rolling watch out!! 👀

A top-tier studio betting big on immersive content, and wielding the hardware channel to push it mainstream.

[David Altizer @thumbnaildavid]

RUMOR: Apple has been shooting all their AppleTV+ shows in 180 VR.

Leaked photo of the 180-camera rig on set.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

@TechCrunch @elonmusk Future deleted tweets by Techcrunch. This is a take that will not age well.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

It would cost a lot less than $100B to pivot to autonomous road trains.

For those of us who misguidedly voted in favor of Prop 1A back in '08, can anybody explain how this works going forward?

Do voters get an opportunity to cut our losses?

[Austen Allred @Austen]

California’s High-Speed Rail project was originally estimated to cost $33 Billion.

Now they’ve spent $9.8 Billion, no track has been laid, and they estimate it will cost another $100B+ to complete.

For a single system that will be about 800 miles long.

Honestly impressive.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

New Show Idea:
Hoarders, except it's for ex-politicians who hoard classified documents.
#totallyinnocent

[Doug @cleverslogan]

@EdLudlow @bznotes Agreed but... VERY slowly. Battery technology is advancing at a steady snail-like pace. Optics, sensing, and processing moving only kinda in the right direction. It is equally likely we get to effective wireless power instead before AR HMD battery packs disappear.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

Spending on the construction of US manufacturing facilities continues to climb (despite contraction in near-term mfg indexes).

Recession or not, it appears that Made in USA 🇺🇲 is making a true comeback especially in high tech. Huge win for @POTUS and #CHIPSact

[Doug @cleverslogan]

Super cool perspective

[Tony Dunn @tony873004]

The solar system cruising through the galaxy.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Time since first… (years):

Blockchain: 15
Tweet: 17
YouTube video: 18
Facebook post: 19
Blue-ray disk: 24
Digital video recorder: 25
Portable MP3: 26
Google Search: 27
Weblog (blog): 27
DVD: 28
Cloning: 28
Bluetooth: 30
Smartphone: 31
GIF: 36
Wifi router: 32
Website: 32
Search engine: 32
Laptop: 42
Handheld console: 45
Internet router: 47
Mobile phone: 50
Email: 52
Fax: 59
Pager: 74
TV broadcast: 98
Radio broadcast: 118
Phone call: 147

[Doug @cleverslogan]

Texas is the perfect place to build the future of construction tech, even though California is the place that actually needs it most. *Sigh*

Cool to see a big shot builder like @Lennar pushing the future down there.

[Lennar @Lennar]

Take a tour of one of Lennar’s new 3D-printed homes at Wolf Ranch in Austin, TX. These innovative homes, built by Lennar and ICON, feature elevated and energy-efficient design with an eye towards sustainability.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

Smartphone screens should be smaller for ergonomics and it's completely fine if they therefore must be thicker to fit battery life and premium CPU/memory.

[Aleks @aleksliving]

what design hot take will have you like this?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Where does water really fall into? Great demonstration of rotational forces at work.

[📹 https://t.co/tomJOZkI23]

[sarah guo @saranormous]

1st time founders focus on tech
2nd time founders focus on distribution

[Doug @cleverslogan]

@mitchaiet Oh my

[Suhail @Suhail]

A graphics revolution is occurring in AI. Incredible research from NVIDIA.

[Doug @cleverslogan]

Get it done.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: AOC and Matt Gaetz have introduced a bill to ban Congress members from owning, trading stocks

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Within a year we will all be utterly "ainundated" with content—endless FLOOD (see James Gleick) of AI generated emails, podcasts, auto written substacks etc

I predict many people begin "DRYDOCKING": insisting on in person human connection no devices no AI