Jesse Spaulding

🎟 Private dinners: @somagatherings
✈️ Founder trips: @foundertravel
💬 Better public discourse: @thinklab (on pause)

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

I'm hosting a founder trip in Niseko, Japan 🇯🇵🏂

I've been coming to Niseko almost every season for the past 7 years. This year I've booked a 5 bedroom chalet for all of March, and am opening up spots for fellow founders to stay for 4-7 days.

The plan is simple: deep powder mornings, deep work afternoons, and group dinners in Hirafu (where we're staying).

Check the trip details on @FounderTravel (yep, I built an entire platform just to host this, thank you Claude!)

If you're interested, send me a DM with your requested dates and what interests you about the trip. (Or request to join in the app 👀)

[Founder Travel @FounderTravel]

Niseko Founders Chalet — hosted by Jesse Spaulding
https://t.co/gC0w5oVInP

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

@yongfook Share Lounge! Nobody even makes eye contact so easy to be productive.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

If democracy is a conversation, then what happened when the conversation moved onto social media platforms designed to maximize "engagement"?

Increased polarization, which is a major threat to liberal democracies.

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

@Gfilche @ChatGPTapp @grok Try Midjourney!

[Tesla @Tesla]

World's first autonomous delivery of a car!

This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

Been waiting a long time for this! Let's goooo 💪

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

Robotaxi Launch party 🎉 ❤️

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

@Asar_2DW @somacircle Sorry about that. We are still ironing out all the issues.

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

I'm hosting an entrepreneurs dinner in Canggu, Bali through my app @somacircle. Guests will be matched to tables of six based on interests. After dinner, we’ll all meet at a bar for drinks and conversation. 🍻

https://t.co/u5L6pUk82i

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

In pursuit of product-market fit, you should be less of a data scientist and more of an anthropologist.

Every week I see teams pretending to be scientists and analyzing metrics on a test group of a few hundred users who came from odd sources unrepresentative of their broader target audience — like a Discord server or a handful of friends & acquaintances.

Instead, keep it simple:

Your analytics dashboard should literally just be a table of users with the following columns:

• Name
• Registration Date
• Last Active Time
• Number of Sessions

Then follow these steps:

1. Sort the list by Last Active Time
2. Look up the most active users on Instagram or Linkedin
3. Then interpret their behavior on your app through the lens of their online identity
4. If you have a messaging channel such as Intercom, send them a generic message asking for their feedback (and maybe offer a $25 gift card)

Do this regularly.

It’s certainly not science but it will tell you more about what’s resonating about the product than a bunch of statistically insignificant data.

[Tesla AI @Tesla_AI]

FSD Supervised ride-hailing service is live for an early set of employees in Austin & San Francisco Bay Area.

We've completed over 1.5k trips & 15k miles of driving.

This service helps us develop & validate FSD networks, the mobile app, vehicle allocation, mission control & remote assistance operations

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

Discovered this new aesthetic today. Kinda neat.

It’s called Japandi = the combination of Japanese + Scandinavian design.

[Tesla @Tesla]

A robotaxi future is closer than you probably think

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

@vish 👀

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A question we all need to ask:

If you were the main character in a movie of your life, what would the audience be screaming at you right now?

We've all been there...

We're watching a movie or reading a book and the main character is clearly off course.

We start to feel that internal urge to scream at them:

• "No, don't open that door!"
• "Drive to the airport, don't let her go!"
• "Forget about him, bigger things ahead!"

The bird's-eye view perspective on the main character's situation provides a unique vantage point—an ability to see the landscape around them and the bigger picture.

It may sound crazy, but we are all that main character—and our audience would be screaming something at us right now.

What is it? What are they screaming at you?

What insight does the bird's-eye view perspective provide that we are missing on the ground?

We all need to think about this from time to time.

We all need to detach ourselves from our situation and see it through someone else's eyes.

Perspective is everything.

Remember: When in doubt, zoom out.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The striking thing about the reaction to ChatGPT is not just the number of people who are blown away by it, but who they are. These are not people who get excited by every shiny new thing. Clearly something big is happening.

[Jesse Spaulding @jspaulding]

@PutrinoLab @zahifayad @NIH A radical change would be having peer review done publicly. And perhaps even entire research projects: https://t.co/0QjJYfJY5g

[Future Fund @ftxfuturefund]

1/ We're thrilled to announce the FTX Foundation's Future Fund. We make grants and investments to ambitious projects to improve humanity's long-term prospects.

We plan to deploy >$100M this year, and potentially a lot more (in principle up to $1B).

https://t.co/kIWdm48LZ4

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let’s make the roaring 20’s happen!

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I've long been interested in new ways to organize science and enable curiosity-driven discovery. Today, in partnership with @Stanford, @UCBerkeley, and @UCSF, we're excited to announce Arc Institute, a new undertaking in this vein: https://t.co/NAOHTwFKuH.