TIL: Steve Aoki’s dad founded Benihana.

Is it just me or has twitter just devolved into threaded clickbait listicles?

Find out how I’m immortal/fantastically successful* in just 23 easy steps 🧵

New habit when meeting VCs: ask for a book recommendation. Purpose is twofold: 1. You can tell how someone thinks from what they read. 2. If the conversation was a total waste of time at least I got a book to read

How is this ok? Sub in anything else for “short”— “fat”, “disabled”, “mentally ill” and this would have blown up and AT&T would have been forced to apologize. youtu.be/2x4Zpn0l8CA?li…

So this is how you blow a $10bn hole in a crypto fund’s balance sheet….

Trung Phan Why the puff piece The New York Times?

Oh god. All of the @Twitter designers have left the building. Elon Musk shipping a ton of features is only great if the UX is there. Otherwise you end up with Windows Phone.

The product of everything: Where are all of the airport maps? austinlo.substack.com/p/where-are-al…

The product of everything: On labeling and permenance austinlo.substack.com/p/on-labeling-…

My new conspiracy theory is that the junk spam calls are trying to grab enough voice samples of me to deepfake my voice to steal my identity.

A new podcast interview just in time for your weekend. Thanks Austin for coming on the show to share about Peek. Excited to see how y'all leverage your unique data for AI inputs in the future!

the new york running community is electric. raced 6 miles through the streets of downtown manhattan at 2 AM today alongside nearly 200 other runners, and am confident that it's one of the coolest things i've ever gotten to do. s/o to OrchardStreetRunners for organizing the adventure

It baffles me that people in LA will scream bloody murder over Bob Iger’s salary and be ok with Rui Hachimura signing with the Lakers for 3y / $51 million…

Cap table software is the purest example of commodity SaaS with no moat. In a 3 year span, we’ve gone from paying $300/mo to $60/mo. Every year, a new entrant in the market is willing to undercut the incumbent by 50% or more. Can grow crazy fast.. but easy come easy go.

Either the Twitter algo is better than I thought or every other founder has started running marathons. Gonna have to get into curling or something.

PSA: if you care about getting out of JFK in a reasonable amount of time, don’t bother flying JetBlue. Uber pickup moved to terminal 7 so you get a fun half mile walk + AirTrain just to get a car.