📡 Isaac Phillips

exploring, technology, startups, telecommunications, tier 1 cities, little villages, mountains, oceans, & languages. Founder @siglocom (YC S21)

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

@denisewu Not according to history 🤔

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Is Trump doing this for entertainment or training? 😹

[Joe Holland @JoeHolland]

It’s true. From Teddy’s autobiography,

“While President I used to box with some of the aides, as well as play single-stick with General Wood. After a few years I had to abandon boxing as well as wrestling, for in one bout a young captain of artillery cross-countered me on the eye, and the blow smashed the little blood-vessels. Fortunately it was my left eye, but the sight has been dim ever since, and if it had been the right eye I should have been entirely unable to shoot. Accordingly I thought it better to acknowledge that I had become an elderly man and would have to stop boxing. I then took up jiu-jitsu for a year or two.”

[N. Parish Flannery @NathanielParish]

Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz in Mexico, meeting with President Sheinbaum

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Agreed.

[Preethi Kasireddy @iam_preethi]

Childhood is supposed to be inefficient. The unscheduled hours are where imagination lives, where boredom fosters creativity, and where kids learn to figure out what they like and don't like.

The parents booking every week of summer in February think they're being responsible and helping their child succeed. I think they're robbing their kids of their childhood.

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

I favor a lot of the classics, a lot from my childhood:
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- Go Dog Go
- Fox in Sox
- Peter Rabbit
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes
- Charlotte’s Web
- Saint-Exupery
- Hans Christian Andersen

Any recommendations are welcome!

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

One of the funnest things about fatherhood is getting books for my son. Amazon just delivered a version of The Conference of the Birds. We haven’t read it yet, but it’s beautiful. Illustrated by Demi. #childrensbooks #fatherhood

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

One of the funnest things about fatherhood is getting books for my son. Amazon just delivered a version of The Conference of the Birds. We haven’t read it yet, but it’s beautiful. Illustrated by Demi. #childrensbooks #fatherhood

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:

Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.

1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.

2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.

Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.

Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Sad story 😔

[Amb. Arturo Sarukhan @Arturo_Sarukhan]

👉 "In Mexico City, axolotl salamanders are everywhere before the World Cup — except in the wild" https://t.co/5heY0vfYIe @Reuters

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Looking forward to reading more!

Saplings: The Childhoods of Exceptional Entrepreneurs, by @mariogabriele https://t.co/oBMxGNBxp9

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How is this new? We did this at my wedding in Coyuca... 🦎

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

The new viral Mexican “Iguana” dance

[High Country News @highcountrynews]

Paying attention to birds — and doing so in whatever way is accessible to people — supports a person’s health. You’re not only moving around, but you’re listening; you’re noticing signs of birds, you’re enhancing your cognitive flexibility.

https://t.co/LWiqlnE6C9

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

The US tech industry would be a shadow of itself without immigrants.

First 10 examples that come to mind:

1. Elon Musk (South Africa)

2. Andrej Karpathy (Czechoslovakia)

3. Sergey Brin (Russia)

4. Jensen Huang (Taiwan)

5. Satya Nadella (India)

6. Ilya Sutskever (Russia)

7. Sundar Pichai (India)

8. Lisa Su (Taiwan)

9. Fei-Fei Li (China)

10. Sanjay Mehrotra (India)

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Tokenmaxxing! 😲

[Tyler Bosmeny @bosmeny]

A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight

@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity

Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner

I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Pupusas con repollo 🇸🇻

[Lolo Díaz @LoloxDeVille]

COL O REPOLLO?

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@DamonZumbroegel Huauchinango Puebla is great

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Fresh snow in Mexico City & Estado de México ❤️

[Tomás C. @JTomCorVi]

¡Maravilloso!
Iztaccíhuatl (del náhuatl: iztac, "blanco"; cíhuatl, "mujer").

[El Universal @El_Universal_Mx]

¡Nieve en plena primavera! ❄️

🏔️ El Volcán Xinantécatl, conocido como Nevado de Toluca, amaneció cubierto de nieve este martes debido a las bajas temperaturas y las lluvias provocadas por el frente frío número 42 en el Valle de Toluca.

Por cuestiones de seguridad, el acceso a visitantes permanece restringido.

📸 Fotos: Cuartoscuro

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Makes sense

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

It's not hard for an American man to be "Mexicanized."

You show up in the desert penniless, exhausted by the harsh sorrows of the world. You wander around Yuma. By chance, some friendly campesinos offer you some Tecate. You get drunk.

They offer you work picking lettuce, and you take it. Immediately, you're immersed in a world of cumbia and corridos, habanero salsas and tamales, great big crates of lechuga loaded onto trucks, and you're tanning so dark you're starting to look Mexican yourself.

The guys are calling you "güero" -- they're nice to you. They're nicer to you than anyone's been in years. They want you to play fútbol in the churchyard with them; they never exclude you from whatever they're up to, never skip you in the tequila rotation. Their world is colorful, loud, sweaty, laughing, and they're glad you're there. You get the sense that this is how it was always supposed to be.

And you can't come back from that. When you go back home, everyone seems so "stiff" and cold. Your family, they eat quickly, they don't linger over anything, they don't seem to enjoy anything. Your town has no one playing fútbol on the lawn, no cumbia, no burning sun that makes you smile and sweat. Everyone is awkward, tentative, distant. You cannot help but miss la frontera.

It's at that moment that the process is complete. You just can't go back. You're "spiritually Mexican" now.

Pic related: It's me and my wife.

[📡 Isaac Phillips @desapmex]

Veteran cybersecurity experts know the best encryption can be broken with a baseball bat.

[TravelGov @TravelGov]

Hong Kong: On March 23, 2026, the Hong Kong government changed the implementing rules relating to the National Security Law. It is now a criminal offense to refuse to give the Hong Kong police the passwords or decryption assistance to access all personal electronic devices including cellphones and laptops. This legal change applies to everyone, including U.S. citizens, in Hong Kong, arriving or just transiting Hong Kong International Airport. In addition, the Hong Kong government also has more authority to take and keep any personal devices, as evidence, that they claim are linked to national security offenses. Read more: https://t.co/K5w2tETFu5