The accusation that people who are already very successful in business go into government to make more money is a lazy and stupid narrative. As I’ve learned, serving in government involves substantial disruption and divestiture of one’s business interests. The real question is

Waymo now available in Austin via the Uber app. Telsa Robotaxi is next (in June?). Getting fun! 🤖 theverge.com/news/623302/wa…

Interesting

The US gov was headed towards bankruptcy. When numbers like "billion" and "trillion" are casually used, people have a hard time grokking what that means. To make it relatable, if the US gov were a family household making $100k per year, this is what its finances would look like

It is so insightful to see the quality of the people behind DOGE and the real problems they are solving. A MUST watch.

The road ends here. Let’s go!! 🏀

We are outta Delaware and now in Nevada a16z.com/were-leaving-d… We’re Leaving Delaware, And We Think You Should Consider Leaving Too | Andreessen Horowitz Joe Lombardo

A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.

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AWS us-east-1 outage RCA… TL;DR a distributed DNS automation race condition occurred and the net result was an empty DynamoDB record aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

Headed to San Francisco on United. 😍 Starlink!! Ty Elon Musk!

This isn’t understood by enough people Try to be useful to your fellow man, by creating some product or service, and we all win.

when you realize that matrix called the bad guys "agents" and 25 years later we literally invented them

I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/op…

PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter.

For context, the entire U.S. venture capital industry invested $170 billion into startups in all of 2023. OpenAI just raised 65% of that in one round.

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the