Jonny Sandlund

[Jonny Sandlund @jsandlund]

@OpenAI just an FYI, the conversion selector on your pricing page is broken on chrome web. the selector isn't converting pricing to per 1k tokens.

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[Jonny Sandlund @jsandlund]

@1sprintatatime Check out @USDResponse!

[Jonny Sandlund @jsandlund]

@esthercrawford @ycombinator @daltonc It's hardly a clear case that YC and the ethos of venture-backed tech (and, to be sure, it's not just YC) has created net positive value for society. Some of our biggest problems have worsened in the past decade and technology hasn't just been an inconsequential bystander.

[Jonny Sandlund @jsandlund]

@esthercrawford @ycombinator @daltonc YC and the wider VC tech community seem overly fixated on growth at the expense of moral clarity or conviction. It demonstrably enriches the relatively few, extraordinarily so, but it largely ignores externalities and the outcomes of the many...

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@JoeSciarrino @ycombinator @Cruise @danielkan The groupthink is so evident, and tremendously harmful. You're ignoring externalities. If you spend more time outside the technocentric bubble -- I think you'll find that what YC / VC tech has collectively built in pursuit of at-all-costs growth is far from the envy of the world.

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@arthurbrooks suspect it’s programmatic and unintentional. just sharing a friendly FYI that casino ads are being layered into your podcasts. e.g., https://t.co/c4gTXw74Gr

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@melodaysong @damitatweets Debord’s society of the spectacle gets close imo. the best thing i’ve read on how mediation changes the nature of our relationships. written in 1967, wild. lucid, incisive, and remarkably prescient.

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@DeanPreston @DonaldFR If only you’d actually put ideology aside. You helped create the problem that you’re now pretending to solve. Years ago, you opposed 400 divis. Today, you’re backing its development by SF, who’s record building large projects on time and in budget is categorically abysmal.

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@DeanPreston @DonaldFR @ThinkScrappy They committed to 20% BMR. The MR units weren’t extravagant. And it would have turned an empty, blighted corner into 186 mixed-income units of desperately needed housing, reducing pricing pressure for *everyone*. This could and should have been developed years ago.

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@DeanPreston @DonaldFR @ThinkScrappy Untrue. The Developers raised capital & and started planning ~7 years ago. They invested this capital over 7 years in multiple rounds of proposals, reviews, revisions, entitlements etc. before exhausting it. The numerous delays absolutely contributed to the project’s demise.

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@DeanPreston @DonaldFR @ThinkScrappy Covid also contributed to the delay. But there were already multiple year-long delays pre-covid, when you opposed it. Developers don’t have an unlimited source of capital. Delays cost $. Year-long delays cost $$$s. You know this. And you helped delay it and kill it.

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@DeanPreston @damienISgoodmon How many new housing units have been built in your district in the past 1, 5, 10 years?

… the facts lay bare: the Problem isn’t boogeyman investors. It’s rhetorically radical, ineffective politicians who block, obstruct, and delay desperately needed new housing.

[Jonny Sandlund @jsandlund]

@waitbutwhy Knowing what ends to pursue, how, when, and with whom. Seeking understanding of the particulars and imperfections along the way, while acting in spite of them.

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@jefielding @jamiequint 100%. For every "successful" founder who put work above all else always (family, friends, community, spirituality), there's one who didn't. The belief that balance signifies weakness of will is sadly prevalent - and incredibly toxic. Predictably leads to > burnout and blowups.

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@NathanpmYoung It's not an either/or. But buying local products multiplies economic benefits locally -- "local multiplier effect" -- which funds more vibrant, healthy, and resilient local economies and communities. https://t.co/godrFo6ySC

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@UrbanDashboard @michelletandler Lower level deck on the GGB, similar to the original proposal?

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@straballar @patriciamou_ yes 😁! so good, the perfect spot to end a long ride at.

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@michelletandler Of course, the commute time could be halved if the small-but-powerful contingency of uber wealthy Marin NIMBYs stopped selfishly blocking an extension of bart 😔

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@michelletandler Yah, but I doubt $s is a major reason tech workers in marin aren’t commuting to work in-office tho. Commute time + low occupancy / no vibrancy are probs the primary factors. For co’s w/o mandated in-office days, i’m hearing occupancy averages <10%.