Sam Mclaughlin

Building software for a better tomorrow.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Want to up VC investment & returns in your city? Add a direct flight to San Francisco!

Want someone to stay in Congress? Add a direct flight to DC!

Direct flights also makes it likely that scientists will publish together & that organ transplants happen between connected cities

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Whenever I see a reply mentioning that correlation isn't causation, without fail it turns out to be saying something stupid. If they made a great seal of midwits, that phrase would be inscribed around the outer edge.

[Sam Mclaughlin @SamuelBrobert]

I’m on @withFND 🌐

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[Sam Mclaughlin @SamuelBrobert]

Check out my profile on 🌐 @withFND ↓

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[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

conservative: we should have christian values in government

me: like feed the poor

conservative: no

me: heal the sick

conservative: no

me: then what

conservative: plagues 👍

[Dan Rose @DanRose999]

In 2006 I was meeting with Jeff Bezos to discuss acquiring Audible when he described their founder Don Katz as “a missionary, not a mercenary.” I later learned Jeff got this framing from John Doerr, and it struck me as a good distinction when evaluating people. Here's a 🧵:

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

Free trade with China will usher in democracy

[John Backus @backus]

Honestly, I think this is brilliant.

Very humbling requirement reminding everyone building the system that people are on the other end.

Also the epitome of dog fooding. If engineers hate doing this, they'll be that much more sensitive to poorly designed parts of the experience.

[joey @joeydotdev]

imagine being so pressed about having to learn your customers�� pain points that you cry about it on blind lmao

[Sam Mclaughlin @SamuelBrobert]

Verifying my identity for @viamirror

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[JD Vance @JDVance]

Is there a bigger poster child for our failed ruling class than @AOC?

Self obsessed. Not that bright. Lives to control others. Mediocre in every way possible.

But what do you expect from someone so broken that she believes people shouldn't have kids because of climate change?

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

I've started reading "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" by Richard Hamming and it's like mainlining intelligence, enthusiasm, and, dare I say it, meaning! Every page makes me think of something new I want to do or write. This is the last paragraph of the introduction.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Founder/Go-to-Market Fit:

If primary GTM is bottom-up, founder needs to be great at product.

If primary GTM is inbound, founder needs to be great at marketing.

If primary GTM is outbound, founder needs to be great at sales.

[Matt Munson @mattmuns]

If I reflect back on my earliest years as a CEO, I can see the long hours I put in were not a way of managing my task list. The long hours were a way of managing my anxiety.

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

Make it work
Make it right
Make it fast
Make it work again because you broke it making it fast

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

America gets a lot wrong, but one of the most important things we get right:

Virtually every nationality—on average—is richer here than they are in their home country.

[delian @zebulgar]

"let's just meet out on the water tomorrow"

is my favorite phrase that has been added to my vernacular

[anson @ansonyuu]

girls only want one thing and it's a walkable city with mixed use development

[Ryan Lizza @RyanLizza]

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen just said this on @CNN:

"All of us [10 living defense secretaries] came to the same conclusion that we are in danger, that we have a commander-in-chief who is not above trying to use the military in order to achieve a political objective."