Payam Mirrashidi

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[Payam Mirrashidi @sfpayam]

Had a great time on stage with Dave Brown at AWS re:Invent 2025. Appreciate the opportunity to talk about Swift on AWS Graviton as the powerful combo developers need to build high-performance applications from devices to data centers.

#Swift

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[Sumit Gupta @SumitGup]

Super excited to have the creators of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and the team from Styra as part of the Apple Cloud Infrastructure team at Apple

https://t.co/AQuVd1Y61V

[Apple Music Classical @AppleClassical]

More accessible than ever, introducing Apple Music Classical on the web: https://t.co/SJzywcK2dp

[Payam Mirrashidi @sfpayam]

@YRueyYen What was yours?

[Payam Mirrashidi @sfpayam]

@Astrobear1Isa What’s your major?

[Apple Music @AppleMusic]

Whether you’re feeling the rush of a new crush or healing from a breakup, music can help make sense of it all. 😍

Check out two new stations made just for you: one for Love and one for Heartbreak. 💘💔

[Mirrashidi @mirrashidi]

I asked boys to name scientists, if not for #2, the last one would be my favorite:
Albert Einstein
Mom
Isn’t there Isaac Newton?
The guy with a kite
Emmett Brown

[Payam Mirrashidi @sfpayam]

Really proud of my daughter Paloma for talking about the male gaze during her TEDx talk. https://t.co/hbNdjR2WNm

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”

He plots stories on 2 axes:

X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune

He goes on to say,

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

Point 1:

Stories have defined patterns.

In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey.

Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world.

Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes.

Each story, he said, fit one of the 8.

Point 2:

Vonnegut says,

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.”

To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer.

Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for.

Point 3:

End on a high note.

Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.”

The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.

It’s called recency bias.

Lift people up and they will love you.

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“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”

I wrote this with @RobbieCrab. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising.

And I talk about creative storytelling. Follow @nathanbaugh27 for more like that.

[Jeff Boyce @Negative_Tilt]

Just wow. Last night in Yosemite #CAwx

[Payam Mirrashidi @sfpayam]

RT @visegrad24: Bulgarian yoghurt has finally been listed in the European Register of Protected Designations of Origin (PDO).

Traditional…

[Lorenzo Green 〰️ @mrgreen]

Expanding famous album covers using AI. 🪄

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h/t to @dobrokotov for this amazing idea!

1. Michael Jackson - Thriller:

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

Apple Music Classical Now Available for Android https://t.co/gMBwdWWE04 by @hartleycharlton

[Robert Fruchtman @_fruchtose]

Hello San Francisco, I'm at the Park Branch Library attending a pre-application meeting for a housing project at…hold, what's this address? 1846 Grove St? Is that…?

[Payam Mirrashidi @sfpayam]

I love it when a plan comes together. https://t.co/p4OwpJkQh1

[Holly Moeller, @mixotrophe at other places too @mixotrophe]

After many months of data entry and QC, #wundergrad team Josephine Kaminaga and Sophia Mirrashidi are off to the races performing (saturating!) curve fits (sometimes on data digitized from papers written before they were born 😅). #figaday 2.5/n #year2

[Mason Bates @masonbates]

Mysterious courier approached my front door at 7 AM… Required ID and my signature… And then left me with this beautiful little parcel from Tim Cook. Very thankful that Apple music is dedicating such resources to its new Classical app.

[Apple Music Classical @AppleClassical]

#AppleMusicClassical is here! Watch as two of the most powerful talents in classical music, @AliceSaraOtt and @kcanellakis, team up to introduce you to the new app. https://t.co/lwnF4Dx4ua

[Coby @Cobylefko]

Exciting News: San Diego's City Council has unanimously approved the creation of a 7-block pedestrian plaza in the heart of the city!

[John Wilander 🇺🇦 @johnwilander]

Apple Music Classical is here! ❤️ It’s a companion app to Apple Music, specifically designed for classical music which is different in that it has many recordings of the same piece, different musicians playing the same piece, and different directors. https://t.co/L2L4gBQaGD