Sasan

building something new. ex @Twitter, @MoPub, @Vungle, @EA. C++, Scala, Erlang.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ After asking where to work in San Francisco because the cafes were so unworkable the very friendly @hoopcutter + @DesignWithAllie contacted us to invite us to work at @AngelList's @founders_cafe so we got a Waymo (yes!) and went there

There we also met the very nice and smart @luisgnet @flotemer @quasa0

We worked a bit and then of course we went out for steak after at a restaurant called Lillie Coit's, and it was really good steak

It's fun you can drop into SF and meet people so fast (of course with a little help from X) and also you really observe the level of conversations here are very high IQ, it's like you feel you were starved off high IQ convos and when you finally have it, it feels like ice water in your brain, just what a joy to meet people who actually know their stuff

Obviously this will sound super pretentious, but in the rest of the world you spent 50% of the conversations just informing people on the latest developments in tech and health and then after that you can finally talk about what's actually going on

In SF you skip all that because everybody already knows what you're talking about and you go straight to what it's about, similar to being in big cities in China btw

People talk about biohacking, dissolvable peptides, retatrutide (of course), recursive self-improvement and world models

But to be honest I think you can get that by just being on @X too, you don't have to be in SF for that, but it is nice sometimes to have those conversations not in a X thread but actually in a room with real people IRL!

The complete lack of workable cafes in SF also made me think, like I know why it is, it's the natural tension between the more lefty locals and the techies, and the locals don't necessarily want to serve techies, they want to serve locals and improve local SF culture, which is the ironic tension of SF because all the money comes from tech of course

But that also made me think in seeing the rest of the world try emulate Silicon Valley with their super cheesy incubators and coworking spaces and startup ecosystem bs that never ever has worked out for any country. SF doesn't even have cafes to work yet they have trillion dollar companies created here in the last few years

Like it's obviously not about having a coworking space, or cafes to work from, because SF doesn't really have any good ones, it's all about regulation and how easy you make it to start a business, raise money, hire people and giving those people stock options, and then grow the company and hopefully make it big (0.1% to 1% odds) and then everyone early gets rich too

Another thing I saw which was rather ironic that a lot of the people we met are bootstrapping in SF. I thought if you live in SF it makes most sense to raise money because it's 1) expensive to live here, 2) the whole value is the connections to raise or invest? But they say they're here for getting connections and customers, interesting for sure and you wouldn't see that 10 years ago, so bootstrapping has definitely entered the modern startup founder's mind, which is great to see!

[Richard Feldman @rtfeldman]

In the past 3 years, I haven't noticed any uptick in release speed for software I use. If productivity is increasing, I can't tell as an end user.

I have noticed decreases in uptime, increases in bugs, and a HUGE increase in people bragging about how many PRs per day they land.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

@nikitabier @joshuabstark Personally i recommend us @FaytuksNetwork

[Wyatt Arndt @TheStanchion]

Please mark this Elias Pettersson goal as NSFW

[PhotoChess @photochess]

THIS 🥹

#FIDEWorldCup2023

[Sasan @gootik]

@followtheh Where is this graph from?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Surely someone who can figure out how to build spaceships can figure out how to distinguish scrapers from legit users. The patterns must be so different.

[K O @kate10010]

POV you’re about to read the dumbest sht you’ve ever seen

[Sasan @gootik]

@awesomekling @Shopify @ladybirdbrowser Great news! Congratulations

[Alex Kantrowitz @Kantrowitz]

Imagine having a system designed for this very purpose

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

Developers explaining why they can’t just copy and paste the code snippets generated in Figma.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@joerogan Does this offer also apply if the debate takes place somewhere else? If not, your disinterested search for the truth begins to look like mere self-promotion.

[Sasan @gootik]

Because who cares about biking. Getting coffee is more important

[amir @blumenfeld]

Apple Vision Pro is the real deal.

[Sasan @gootik]

I love @CertManager.

[Jason Hunter @jaserhunter]

We still photographing basketball hoops? 🏀

[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

Uh, how large is this sea ice anomaly going to get? 🥴

More visualizations at https://t.co/V0Lt0w1sTi. More background on this ongoing extreme event at https://t.co/UiilcFykr9 and https://t.co/6XG67lDezY.

[Sasan @gootik]

@UnkilledThrill @TwitterSupport Wow what’s with the replies to this! So many bots