jasmine

Made in Silicon Valley, programmed to love Steph Curry, AI Media Fellow @FreeSystemsLab @HooverInst

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

Growing up in Silicon Valley, I believed tech was meant to democratize opportunity and accelerate human progress. The early ethos of the Valley wasn’t just about building profitable products, but about shifting the trajectory of lives and societies. There was idealism, for sure, but also a serious belief that technical breakthroughs should serve human success.

But somewhere along the way, parts of the industry traded vision for vanity. As capital flooded into tech, incentives shifted. Virality began to outpace value. The goalposts moved from solving hard, important problems to maximizing engagement, retention, and monetization.

Today some of the brightest minds are pulled towards optimizing ad clicks and frictionless dopamine loops. Why? (Insert disclaimer: The issue isn’t the people).

Innovation isn’t dead. (Insert disclaimer again: Many technologists are building remarkable human-centered tools.) It’s worth asking again and again: What is worth building? And who is it truly for?

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@farhatchristina Give them a raise

[chromatic. @juhmeer]

shout out to jasmine!! i love her rice

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@heshie Stanford

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

Fall looks a little different this year

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

Central Park today btw

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@heshie He’s right

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

Me after 1 glass of wine

[jack @jack]

there is no moat

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@amruthapotnuru Did you know there’s a secret Taco Bell cantina in Pacifica?!?!

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

Nothing like reading tweets from sf/bay area transplants about “the culture”

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@r0b0t_sp1der So true

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@trq212 👏 hell of a run!

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@shwedotai Yum

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

I just went to go see it with some friends. I ate pizza and some sour patch kids

[shweta @shwedotai]

In San Francisco, you can't just watch a new movie.

You’re invited to a VC funded screening.
You wait to see if you get off the waitlist.
You text your friends to see if they're going to the same one and no, not that other one that everyone else went to.
You thank the startup (ty @ExtendHQ!) for hosting.
You post online that You Saw Everything to humble brag that you went a watch party.

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@smc90 @cdixon 🚀🚀🚀

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@ahall_research @MTSlive @StanfordGSB Yup!!!

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

They’re calling it the Rudy Gobert virus

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

It’s going to get a lot worse btw

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@keshavrao_ Yessir https://t.co/Y1dysqj6Sq

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

This is exactly what the book The Inner Game of Tennis talks about

The mind that’s trying to not lose is a different mind than the one that has nothing to lose

It’s what makes Alysa Liu and Erling Haaland so fun to watch - they compete like they have nothing to prove, so nothing gets in the way

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@khushkhushkhush 🎯

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

@Winterrose This deserves way more love

[Eli @elkelk]

I propose a $10,000 yearly fee to be able to legally call yourself a founder

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

hm idk if i was a pathological liar and master manipulator and i knew the most common tell for liars is avoiding eye contact id probably practice not blinking to the point where i accidentally overcorrect