Ivar Chan

tech builder

[David East @_davideast]

Introducing the Stitch SDK

Yes. You can program design now.

I've been dreaming of shipping this for so long because it's just so much fun to use. I welcome all the stars ⭐️

https://t.co/rxqhJpTy3G

[Allen T. @Mr_AllenT]

Retro games that don't exist

But I wish they did.

1. Lord of the Rings: 🧵

[Mert @merterdir]

every day we stray farther off steve’s light.. #ios26

[Mariè @p8stie]

I am currently in Sedona, Arizona.

At first I thought it was very nice here, the nature is interesting, the air is clean and the views are beautiful

But I am encountering increasingly weird people and situations and am realizing this place is filled with complete freaks

[Marshall Haas 🏎 @marshal]

This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days.

In April 2020, during the lockdowns I created 2 things that changed my life:

1. I launched Shepherd (eventually renamed Somewhere[dot]com). 4 years later we sold it for $52,000,000.

2. I created a new physical product that made us $1,036,175 in 60 days.

This is the story of #2.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is cool

[Pamela 💙❤️ @Pammadonna]

“This is a safe sack” 😂

#BillsMafia

[Vic Lombardi @VicLombardi]

Yeah, I’m done.
Mahomes can’t get separate rules.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

in Brazil, it’s a tradition to give the first slice of cake to the person you love the most🥹

[Eagles Nation @PHLEaglesNation]

UPDATE: The #Eagles organization and Big Dom have identified the vile Eagles fan who berated a visiting Packers fan on Sunday. He has officially been banned for life from attending games, and the team is also sending the woman Packers gear as an apology.

(via @RealDGunn)

[Ivar Chan @ivarchan]

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

A Christmas present they’ll remember for years to come 🤣

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Javier Milei (@JMilei), President of Argentina 🇦🇷.

I'm posting it in both English (overdubbed) & Spanish (with subtitles) here on X and everywhere else.

See comment thread for Spanish version and links. The Spanish version has me speaking Spanish 🔥

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:27 - Economic freedom
8:52 - Anarcho-capitalism
18:45 - Presidency and reforms
38:05 - Poverty
44:37 - Corruption
53:14 - Freedom
1:07:26 - Elon Musk
1:12:54 - DOGE
1:14:56 - Donald Trump
1:20:56 - US and Argentina relations
1:28:05 - Messi vs Maradona
1:36:58 - God
1:39:05 - Elvis and Rolling Stones
1:42:45 - Free market
1:49:46 - Loyalty
1:52:23 - Advice for young people
1:53:49 - Hope for Argentina

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

"Every marketer needs a team of 4-5 now to do the work.

CEOs -- make sure you know that.
VPs of Marketing -- make sure the CEO knows that." with @davegerhardt

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Milton Friedman was the best

[#NaMo Again 🚩 @BhaktSanatani_]

@fasc1nate The man of the year.. Respect 🙏
https://t.co/LagPrRNr0G