crcarlson

Bay area entrepreneur.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Finally, sudo make me a sandwich is reality.

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

I will give away one of my 2026 Starship calendars to someone who reposts the post below! Winner will be drawn when I begin shipping orders next month. Good luck!

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@CJHandmer Yes, we need more Bosch and Borlaug, way underrated.

[Stratechery @stratechery]

2025.23: What Nike Learned About E-Commerce

The best Stratechery content from the week of June 2, 2025, including why Nike is working with Amazon, the logic of an Anduril and Meta partnership, and the Japanese rice crisis.

https://t.co/9ULzjWpHgN

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

“We Are Pleased To Announce The Grand Reveal Of The Greatest Teacher Of All Time”

“Oh thank god I was so worried I’d have to learn something”

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@boomsupersonic @paulg so cool!

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@snowmaker Their product? Or their product prototypes? I'd been thinking 3D printing is great for prototyping, but still relatively limited for products.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Ferris Wheels https://t.co/GxRqskV7xA

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@LynAldenContact Thats my secret Cap, I'm a systems engineer...

[Clickspring @clickspring1]

The first episode of the series on constructing the second oldest geared mechanism on the historical record, The Byzantine Sundial-Calendar, is now out on YT - do please enjoy!

[Michael Mauboussin @mjmauboussin]

https://t.co/7OOOlJzxdt

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@paulg What are your main use cases for it currently?

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@Arnold_Ventures I am confused, doesn't this chart show that higher premiums yield more consolidation, not the other way around?

[David Humphrey @humphd]

Screen sharing with a student today:

S: "I don't understand this function.."

Me: "<Explains>...change line 11"

S: "<Starts typing...>

Copilot: "<Offers suggestion, no explanation>"

S: "<Immediately accepts suggestion without reading, still doesn't understand, code is wrong>"

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

This study suggests that people who publicly shame & dogpile on social media are not motivated by moral outrage or a desire to do good, but by sadism

They just get off on the cruelty
https://t.co/DYE9Rn6pVa

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Interesting study where Ali Baba turned off e-commerce personalization for half a million people to see what would happen if personal data was more regulated.

Sales fell significantly, hitting smaller & newer sellers most as buyers needed to search more. https://t.co/ACsUU1AZpS

[Stratechery @stratechery]

5-23-2023 ($)

•Meta’s Low E.U. ARPU
•The Supreme Court and Section 230

https://t.co/gJYUCJx7Vb

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@FitFounder exercise, cooking my own food and fitness tracker for calorie counting

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@dsoneil @YouTube I prefer your more informed, educational, creative content to fart jokes.

[crcarlson @crcarlson]

@Jason MS DOS, MS Office, Intel Pentium, Google Search, Facebook, Netflix Streaming, Amazon Prime, AWS