Cullan Ash

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@jayparsons 😂😂

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

🐐

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

HUGE win for Nishesh Basavareddy against Taylor Fritz 🇺🇸

#RolandGarros

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

Crash and burn is a little too intense but otherwise, yeah. Agreed.

[⭕ AI & Design (Marco) @AIandDesign]

I'm not gonna lie, the @Meta layoffs are some of the most dystopian I've ever seen. They got told to work from home, they were sent the emails at 4AM in the morning. Those who weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move, preparing AI to take their job as well. They're literally training the AI that will eliminate their position as well.

Meanwhile, Meta is raking in RECORD PROFITS.

I am a massive, unapologetic AI enthusiast. Yet, this is NOT the future I had in mind.

I wish for Meta to crash and burn. This is not the way. Literally nobody benefits from this.

[Sina @SinaHartung]

Andrej Karpathy is the Sydney Sweeney of AI

[Jeff Morris Jr. @jmj]

Building in Public was the playbook. Not anymore.

If you're a founder, don't give competitors a sniff of what you're working on until you're ready for showtime.

No benefit anymore to building in public. People are too busy to care what you're doing & they'll happily copy you.

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

Anthropic just won

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

45 y/o CFO, cracked Waterloo dropout, HBS Chief of Staff

[Yam Peleg @Yampeleg]

The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by some LLM right now.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

To MCP or not to MCP, that's the question. Lmk in comments

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@skylarromines @_FlipMan They drive like a less noisy jeep wrangler

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The state of Indiana passed a law banning rail transit. Indianapolis, a city of nearly one million people, cannot have trains as it's against the law.

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

The satirical B2B sales comment is gold

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Fernando Mendoza made sure to update his LinkedIn after winning the National Championship 😭🔥

(Via @fernandomendoza)

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@sweatystartup born and raised in bloomington. GO HOOSIERS

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@gas_biz @realEstateTrent Gas station guy saying Costco is ironic

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@GavinSBaker I hope he runs

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@mattyglesias @maxdubler Variances for exterior cladding. Some municipalities already do this. A lot more should. Look at Carmel indiana for example.

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@anothercohen Tried them all as well and continue to go back to office 365 :/

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@realEstateTrent This is something that can be changed within your settings

[Cullan Ash @cu11an]

@realEstateTrent 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️