JR

flow. ignite stars. repeat.

building commerce infra by day; and night.

[JR @ithakabound]

@cjc @jmwind @karrisaarinen Bravo! ++ pls.

As JM says, sharing lessons learned benefits all.

It's 'Black Box Thinking' in action: aviation hit ~0% accident rates by openly studying events. If this post prevents even 1 such incident, we've all won. 🫡

ps: can't wait to scale to even have this incident 😂

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If, when you say regulation, you mean the dead and clammy hand of the commissar—the gentleman who has never in his life built a single thing, drafting rules to govern a thing he cannot define, to be enforced by men who cannot read them; if you mean the form in triplicate, the impact assessment upon the impact assessment, the compliance officer who breeds, in the warm dark of the org chart, further compliance officers unto the third and fourth generation; if you mean the moat—the deep cold moat that the giant digs around his own castle and christens, with a perfectly straight face, public safety—the drawbridge he hauls up behind himself the very instant he is across, lest any hungrier and hungrier man should follow; if you mean the precautionary principle, which, had it governed our grandfathers, would have banned the wheel pending further study of the hill, and left us yet shivering and raw in the mouth of the cave, blessing its excellent ventilation; if you mean the European disease—that magnificent open-air museum of a continent, which produces in our time precisely two things in great abundance, and they are regulation, and the eloquent and well-footnoted regret of cultivated men explaining at length why they have produced nothing else; if you mean the license required to think, the permission slip for honest arithmetic, the king’s wax stamp pressed upon the forehead of every new idea before it may draw its first breath; if you mean the agency dispatched, with trumpets, to slay a single dragon, which arrives at the cave, surveys the accommodations, and moves in—and spends the ensuing century laying eggs and devouring the very villagers it was sworn to defend; if you mean the startup that perishes not of the market’s honest verdict but of the filing fee, the genius decamping by the next tide to a freer and warmer shore; if you mean the law that arrives, faithful as the swallows, exactly one whole epoch too late—helmeted, plumed, and magnificently armed—to regulate the stagecoach—then certainly, my friends, I am against it.

But—but, my friends—if, when you say regulation, you mean instead the humble steel guardrail upon the mountain road at midnight, the very thing you curse on the easy days and bless on your knees the one night the fog comes down; if you mean the brakes—for it is the brakes, and not the engine alone, that permit a sane man to drive fast and yet arrive alive—and the buttress, without which no cathedral was ever flung so high, but only in spite of which, but because of which; if you mean the meat inspector, who is the single homely reason a man may eat a sausage in this republic without first composing his last will and testament; if you mean the firebreak cut clean through the forest before the dry season of the burning, the smallpox cordon, the buoy that marks the channel, the rule of the road that lets ten thousand strangers hurtle past one another in the dark at fearful speed and arrive, by its quiet grace, every one of them home; if you mean the honest scale and the true weight, the reason a pound is a pound and a dollar a dollar from Natchez to Nome; if you mean the firm and decent wall between the counterfeit voice and the widow’s bank account, between the deepfaked candidate and the ballot box on the eve of the vote, between the loosed and loveless machine and the schoolyard it neither knows nor pities; if you mean the simple plank of law that says the strong shall not, in the gray dawn, feed the weak quietly into the furnace and sell the rising smoke as progress; if you mean, in the end, the one slender thread of trust without which no citizen will ever dare to use the marvelous thing at all—for where there is no rule there is no trust, and where there is no trust there is no commerce, and a miracle that no man dares to touch is no miracle, but only a handsome and expensive ghost—then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise one inch of it.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

This is 63 year old the_tunegirl, she later in life found analog modular synthesis and loves building every sound live with nothing but Eurorack.

She just made her debut at Awakenings.

This is what never giving up on passion looks like.

[JR @ithakabound]

@BrianRoemmele Legend in the making 🫶💙

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I just had the craziest experience at the airport.

We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.

Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”

Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.

The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”

He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”

Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…

Start clapping.

I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.

All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.

It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.

@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

[JR @ithakabound]

@strauss_matt wow

[JR @ithakabound]

@sciencegirl 💙

[JR @ithakabound]

@andrewchen If used for understood/stable, repetitive tasks: agreed.

Else, maybe.

“describes what they want” assumes sufficient understanding to evaluate/edit an AI’s work.

Till then, whatever increases understsnding: scribbles, whiteboard, spreadsheets, AI ‘guide’ (not doer), etc.

[Borges, Jorge Luis @BorgesJorgeL]

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es real.

[JR @ithakabound]

@_avichawla Mate this looks cool and logical!
Sent you a dm which may be buried somewhere in your layered inbox 😅

Would love to chat about this briefly and
related topics , if you’re down? Abrazo!

[JR @ithakabound]

@adamdangelo My daily conundrum—thanks for saying it out loud. If you’re open, I’d love to jam on a hard, urgent network challenge. Gracias 💙

[JR @ithakabound]

Build for the best network outcome.

Clip: https://t.co/UaBKqGoe84

[Tetragrammaton @tetranow]

NEW EPISODE: “Quora has a very small base—I mean it’s in the millions—a relatively small base of people who ask questions and answer questions. But hundreds of millions of people read the answers.” -Adam D’Angelo

[JR @ithakabound]

@historyrock_ Chris from @coldplay may add one here from @richardashcroft 😉💙

https://t.co/hKzijg5tjV

[JR @ithakabound]

@jmwind @typesfast Yup! 😅🫡

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

The container ships are still all going around.

[JR @ithakabound]

@jmwind 😍💪🥳
Any tips on PR let me know! 🫡☀️

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[JR @ithakabound]

@sama @POTUS “When the facts change, I change my mind.”

onwards & upwards @sama , let’s keep building everybody 🫡

[luffy @0xluffy]

watch this at least once a day

[JR @ithakabound]

@tobi @gregisenberg Hero, thanks man 💙🫡