Trey Griffith

founded a few failed startups (@xkitco, @sparkswap), YC alum.

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

Dystopia as imagined in the 80s: the world is controlled by corporations

Dystopia as imagined in the 2020s: the world is controlled by nonprofits

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

I’ll never forget getting an exploding term sheet from a VC, supposedly because the entire firm was going to Burning Man

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

VCs: "I'll be grinding hard throughout the summer. No other investor is going to outwork me!"

Also VCs:

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

@yuris I didn’t realize I had that number memorized until now

[George Mayer @GeorgeMayer]

Turns out remote people care less about their jobs… which is obvious, but something team “we’re just as productive” will need to contend with.

[Jonathan Korman 🟣 @miniver]

Speaking as a professional software user experience designer, you do NOT want to create software systems which compel ideal processes.

You want flexible systems which make ideal actions easiest and other actions transparent.

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

True for all startups, but this is 100x harder in Bitcoin/crypto vs something like SaaS.

No one hypes up a pre-launch SaaS product that they’ll never use.

[Alexander Leishman 🇺🇸 @Leishman]

One piece of advice for Bitcoin entrepreneurs: Bitcoin/crypto twitter liking your pre-product idea doesn't really matter. What matters is real paying customers. Don't get the two signals confused.

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

@peer_rich Guilty. Best idea you’re not working on rn?

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

@dadiomov We need to bring back golf shirts

[Joel Engardio @JoelEngardio]

I support City Attorney @DavidChiu's fight against a court injunction that won’t let San Francisco remove tent encampments when people reject offers of shelter.

If someone refuses shelter, they shouldn’t get to camp anywhere they want indefinitely.

And they shouldn’t get to do whatever they want. If someone repeatedly breaks the social contract, we can’t let “anything goes” become the new normal.

San Francisco is a compassionate and generous city. We provide shelter and services to thousands of people every year. We’re committed to building affordable housing for unhoused people.

But we can’t give up our streets to people who continually turn down our offers of shelter and services. We need the ability to enforce laws because San Franciscans deserve to live, work, and go to school in a functioning city.

One decision by one judge has created chaos. The injunction conflicts with other judicial rulings. It holds us to an impossible standard. We’re expected to provide shelter to 100% of the people experiencing homelessness before we can tell one person who rejects shelter they’re not allowed to camp wherever they want.

The injunction prolongs human suffering on our streets and it keeps us from helping people in need. Some people with severe mental illness and drug addiction require compelled treatment to save their lives.

Successful treatment depends on a safe place to live — and that is not on our streets. We need to keep creating more housing of all types: shelter beds, subacute beds, community residential facilities. But for this housing to work, we must take “sleeping on the sidewalk” off the table.

We also have to acknowledge the existence of “drug tourism.” It explains why some people set up camp in San Francisco and refuse shelter. Drugs are not allowed in shelters, but they’re easy to get on the sidewalk. That’s why we must shut down the open drug market on San Francisco’s streets.

We must continue our compassionate approach to homelessness. But we will not sacrifice the social contract for a functioning city.

Read news story about the injunction and a rally to overturn it: https://t.co/rhnCfwcMCV

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

Everyone complains about stagnancy at the top of the tech industry, but 10 years ago the biggest companies were Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and today it’s Alphabet, Meta, and X.

Disruption never stops!

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

@robinhanson Isn’t it just “cruel and unusual”?

Perception of how painful the death is (“cruel”) x how unusual such a murder method is (“unusual”).

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Despite all the effort that has gone into it, it doesn’t look like programming language design has any real compounding power. There are better and worse languages, but other market and technical forces can swamp language choices.

[Kyle Vogt @kvogt]

Thrilled to announce that the California Public Utilities Commission just approved @Cruise for fared operation 24/7 across all of San Francisco!

It’s a huge milestone for the AV industry, but even more importantly a signal to the country that CA prioritizes progress over our tragic status quo.

We share the CPUC’s commitment to delivering safer, cleaner and more accessible transportation options, and remain committed to collaborating closely with regulators to push toward this critical goal.

Let’s Cruise!

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

@GergelyOrosz @ClipboardHealth

[Lucas Ferreira 🇧🇷⚡️ @lucasdcf]

A lot of people who had DMs open to everyone now can't receive DMs from unverified accounts. And this is not something they're aware of because the setting was changed without them being consulted.

Let your friends know!

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

It's a ferromagnet

"We argue that, together with the pronounced shape anisotropy of the small fragments, the soft ferromagnetism is sufficient to explain the observed half levitation in strong vertical magnetic fields. Our measurements do not indicate the presence of the Meissner effect, nor zero resistance, in our samples, leading us to believe that our samples do not exhibit superconductivity."

https://t.co/JwmhxSGLwh

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

@Kazanjy Any examples of what LLM-via-buttons looks like?

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

Is there anyone in the world who uses Infrastructure-as-code *without* GitOps?

Who is the term GitOps for? Some hacker who writes Terraform but only on their own machine?

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

Poll* 🤦

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

50 years from now, which will be the biggest story?

[Trey Griffith @tgriff3]

I think I ran the pill too soon https://t.co/QJ4Xz3yWnP

[AI Breakfast @AiBreakfast]

Major fusion breakthrough today:

A Lawrence Livermore National Labs fusion experiment achieved an energy net gain today for the second time, producing 3.15 megajoules from an input of 2.05 megajoules from hydrogen atoms.

The fusion experiment was repeatable.