The sooner you can learn to ignore the haters, the better. Avoid the temptation to become one or surround yourself with them—it’s fun in the short term, but they are almost never successful at anything other than social media.

It’s entirely reasonable to simultaneously: -Stand with Israel, -Condemn Hamas’ terroristic slaughter of Israelis & Americans, -Demand the release of Israeli and US hostages, and -Express concern re: innocent civilian Palestinian & Israeli lives. We can do this.

Move somewhere beautiful. It is good for the soul

While SF politician @AaronPeskin keeps trying to ban autonomous vehicles, Swiss Re—one of the world’s largest reinsurers—benchmarked Waymo’s data against 125B miles of human driving. tldr, AVs *much* safer and easier to insure than humans: > at least 300% safer than human

Hard to overstate what Sam Altman did for the industry and world with OpenAI. Google sat on the transformers invention for years and did nothing. Sam pulled AI forward by years w huge vision, GOAT fundraising and “perfect game” level execution. That was the only way OpenAI could

Feels like an appropriate time to mention: If any tech CEOs need a board member and want to pay me $300k per year plus some stock to dial into 4 meetings per year and just agree with whatever you want to do 100% of the time, my DMs are open.

As machine learning has almost become an art of giving different names to the same thing in past decade, just want to remind everyone what Henry Poincaré said: Mathematics is the art of giving different things the same name. For young students interested in AI: Learn more math!

"Running a hyper-growth tech company is not something you can train for. You can buy all the business books, read all the blog posts, and have all the coaching/mentoring sessions, but my greatest learning was just to get in there and start figuring it out." - Fritz Lanman CEO of

Heartbreaking and infuriating - our school shooting strategy cannot be "rely on heroes". Of all the shit wrong in the US, the fact that we subject our kids to the threat of school shootings and continue to do nothing to prevent and or stop them is perhaps our worst failing.

They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression. That's kind of beautiful.

1) Inflection will likely be the first of many VC-backed Foundation Model companies to fail. Foundation models without proprietary, real-time data AND massive distribution for RLHF are the fastest depreciating assets in history. youtu.be/MWE5LsO62wA?si…

The only silver lining of Oakland Men's Basketball losing in Ro32 in OT was that it let DJ Burns and NC state make this amazing run… (also wow Oakland could have really made a run too had they not run into a top 4 team early!)

When Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS, he was given six months to live. Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya’s film, For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign, chronicles their incredible journey, and proves that all of us are far more powerful than we know. I hope you’ll watch it on Prime

So proud of the engineering team at Mindbody for handling this Crowdstrike outage in 3 hours in the middle of the night. While most of the world continues to navigate this outage, we were back up at 619a PST. Outages suck but are inevitable, so having a platform (especially one

The stage is set for the greatest real world episode of West Wing of all time... On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, one of the most accomplished American presidents in history, realizing he no longer has a path to victory, puts party and country before himself and

Building companies is hard. Taking two fitness brands through a “one in a hundred years” global pandemic is harder. Super proud of the teams for not just surviving but getting these businesses into great shape. Still feels like just the beginning.

One of Sam Altman’s more underrated insights. Creativity is massively undervalued skill in founders (and tech leaders generally!)

This alone should be enough for everyone. Even before you get to protecting reproductive health, gay marriage, smarter foreign policy & even the economy and spending! (since WWII D admins have seen more econ growth & R admins have driven 60% of growth in nat debt - at best both

Voters in Montana approved a ballot amendment that enshrines a right to abortion in the State Constitution. Montana was one of 10 states with similar measures on the ballot this year. nyti.ms/3UE0JJo

Too good. For the record my Mom and her Dad went to ND so I have some legit affiliation... Go ND!