in her 1983 nobel lecture, barbara mcclintock presciently described the origins of new species as the aftermath of accidental hybridizations stay tuned for tomorrow, as we stand on her shoulders

skilled immigration ftw

come hang out on Oct 9! pizza & drinks brought to you by the incredible Plymouth team; talks from Ahmed Ahres, Niccolo Fusai, and myself

an enormous thank-you to Plymouth for helping me through the process for a second O1! so happy to be back in SF and cannot say enough good things about Lisa Wehden and the team; to anyone looking for assistance with the visa process, I highly highly recommend reaching out!

I'll be giving a talk next week during SF Tech Week! Feel free to join or DM me

Last week I got my o1 approved and moved fulltime to San Fransisco to work at Midjourney. Blessed and excited 🦅🇺🇸 Huge shoutout to Lisa Wehden and the rest of the Plymouth team for making me need to do as little paper work as possible.

It's time to dig

And this also relates to talent mafias that flow through Silicon Valley companies - e.g., talent from Stripe or Palantir that moves to OpenAI or Anthropic, or Notion to Cursor. This is *both* technical and operational talent -the people who know how to scale companies.

I don’t know much about Stanford academics (never studied there) but I was always curious how it differed from Oxford. My Oxford experience was having a world-class academic grill you on an essay you wrote on the topic for an hour every week. I studied History, so topics ranged

I am officially recognized as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability! O-1 approved 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

quietly toiling in a warmly lit office in SF’s ‘Mint AI’ district, I heard a call at the office door. Who was it? only the great Tamara Winter bringing PRESENTS!

Fun chat with the brilliant Alice Bentinck touring the painted ladies in a Waymo talking about founding a company in the US, and extraordinary aliens 🇬🇧🇺🇸

learning all about AI for science, the future of robotics, and localization from the brilliant Ahmed Ahres, Nicole Fitzgerald, and Niccolo Fusai at Plymouth HQ. Lessons learned from building Physical Intelligence Revolut and Mila - Institut québécois d'IA 💙

Three takeaways from this talk: - ads likely on ChatGPT - energy constraints are fixed by natural gas in short term - then Altman is bullish on fusion & solar - Altman thinks about a scenario where AI *accidentally* taking over the world

Create your art because you never know at what moment in history it will be discovered

.Tess van Stekelenburg and I were running in SF earlier this year where she told me her vision for Valthos to protect billions of people globally. We talked about how AI-enabled biological threats are one of greatest risks to humanity - and how Valthos would solve that. People talk

Go work with Nicole Fitzgerald!!! She's a rockstar

Spent three years looking for a team in Biodefense to invest in. But never found one. So we built it ourselves. Valthos builds next-generation biodefense. As AI and biotech rapidly advance, we're approaching near-universal access to tools with the potential to cure humanity or