Grue Jay

Three B's: Birds, Bikes, and Being Bad at philosophy.

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

life update (i still work at the same place i just changed terminal emulators)

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

life update

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

sepp 😭😭😭😭😭

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Doing this at the counter at the donut shop

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Y'all are CRACKHEADS LMFAOOOOOOOO

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Terrible idea

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The House voted overwhelmingly to make daylight saving time permanent, but the bill faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. https://t.co/vxY0EYoWKj

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Close enough, welcome back Bobby weir

[Chad Cuckington, CFP @chadingtoncfp]

Genuinely what the fuck are we doing

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

He’s so right, thank you Tommy Hoyt

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

New Hampshire Representative Tommy Hoyt (D) sent this email to a parent last night:

"Do you know why children's results tanked during covid? Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You're clearly no professional."

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

E is the obvious choice but C contains north and south hero and isle la motte, putting it in a clear second.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

Northeastern version.

You have to stay inside one of these circles for the rest of your life.

Which one are you choosing, and why?

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Everyone wants rotating sandwiches back but you can’t just steal her whole thing

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

you can rotate a gyro in your mind and nobody can stop you, it’s not even illegal

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

He’s just playing the hand he was given at his own table in his own casino in a game he asked for. Much like his actual casinos, he fucked it all up and lost money.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

I get why so many people are frustrated or skeptical about this Iran MOU. On paper, it looks like a massive compromise: $300 billion in unfrozen assets, a fixed schedule to lift sanctions, and immediate oil export waivers for Tehran. But what were we expecting when on one side, Trump is facing an apocalyptic regime that wants the world to burn and on the other, an American public that has no stomach for war? He played the cards that were actually on the table.

I’m sick and tired of the politicians and podcasters who bitch and complain no matter what Trump does. They scream that the war has to stop, but the second he stops it, they turn around and yell, "what kind of deal is this?!" If the goal is to actually end Iran’s regime, history shows there's only one model that works: total WWII-style defeat, occupation, and denazification. That requires American boots on the ground and an Iranian people ready to build a free country from the rubble. But NO ONE, myself included, wants boots on the ground.

Is this MOU what Trump wanted? I doubt it. But he did exactly what a leader of a Republic should do: he listened to the people and found a way to end this. A dictator would have kept on going. At the end of the day, a president can only go as far as the people will carry him. Right now, our appetite for war stops at the gas pump.

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Evil fucking hospital holy shit

[Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12]

The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to end youth transgender care and has committed millions of dollars for detransition care.

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

The problem with orbital data centers isn’t cooling its that these fucking GPUs fail every god damn 5 minutes.

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Me except I did actually break my hip

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

Remote workers at 11:47 AM on a Friday

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Can’t even keep his story straight in the same sentence. Are you dodging cyclists constantly or are there no cyclists and empty bike lanes.

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Allowing right on red is the worst idea a city can do. Just begging for drivers to hit pedestrians.

[eBike Gillian @BikeGillian]

My 13yo bikes on the W&OD Trail to school daily. At the crossing of Walter Reed Dr, the drivers heading south are allowed to turn right on red when the trail traffic has a green

My child sees close calls here every week

Why won't @ArlingtonDES put a no right on red?

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

This is just like Andy Elliot shit for coders. At least Elliot gets his victims out knocking doors and stuff. This is coming to the office 7 days for what. Typing on the keyboard.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

I hadn’t really looked that closely but what first made me suspicious is that “Milton” was labeled in Vermont and no real map of this resolution would include Milton. Once I saw that the other errors became painfully obvious

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Why is this ai generated. It’s just a map with some lines. Why did ai need to get in the mix

[𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚 @Chris_Grosse]

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What region are you picking?

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

When I was in the ER after a bike crash the other night the attending saw my third nipple as asked “has that always been there”. Like did he think a bike crash caused spontaneous nipple formation?

[William Shipley @Willrandship]

@Seo_JangHara3 humans are one tiny hormonal tweak (increased mammary TBX3 activity) from having as many as 14 breasts as it is

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

Me in the hospital bed right now eating french fries

[🖤 Sophia 🖤 @Richard_Vixen]

It’s big chungus Thursday

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

I thought this said “sense of justice as fairness” and I was wondering why having adhd would give you better insight into John Rawls’s political philosophy

[cessi 🏀 @ceciiii07]

Anyway I learned yesterday that ppl with ADHD and/or autism often have really really REALLY strong senses of justice and fairness. So now I know why I react so strongly when ppl do things that are shitty. Don't do shitty things, guys! You'll stress out the ADHD/autistic folks!

[Grue Jay @grue_jay]

One day if i work hard enough, I'll get to drive this every day :heart-eyes:

[The DC MD VA Live @TheDMVLive]

The Springfield Interchange (The Mixing Bowl, I-95/I-395/I-495)

Springfield, Virginia