Proud of my brother for helping student learn how to use automated systems for manufacturing and more

One of the most undercover villains in the fight for safer streets is fire departments who insist on responding to all emergencies, not just fires, in gigantic ladder trucks instead of smaller vehicles.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received on Twitter? Below is mine, from Jace Deloney. Little over 4 years ago.

Love that Audrey McGlinchy is updating the KUT Austin audience on something as wonky as Austin's parking policies. Letting the market decide how much parking is needed is a great first step.

How much parking is getting built in Austin now that it's not required? One program offers an idea. Great story but KUT Austin's Audrey McGlinchy kut.org/housing/2024-0…

Last 2 times the Fed’s first cut was 50+ bps: 🔸Jan 3, 2001 - S&P 500 fell ~39% next 448 days - Unemployment rose another 2.1% - Recession 🔸Sep 18, 2007 - S&P 500 fell ~54% next 372 days - Unemployment rose another 5.3% - Recession 🔸Sep 18, 2024 - ? - ? - ?

The German settlement in the Hill Country is quite evident

Austin just hit 100° This is the latest triple-digit day on record, crushing the old record of October 2nd in 1938 #atxwx #txwx

The best part about Texas is the mixing of Anglo, German, Mexican, and Black culture into one distinct cuisine, music, and art expression of itself. There are divisions for sure, but the best part happens when lines become blurred. And that is Texas culture to me.

This will always be one of my favorite transportation data visualization projects. When I came across it 10 years ago, I knew that I wanted to work for a company that helps people navigate their world using geospatial and operations data. mbtaviz.github.io

If given a choice between staying in a customer-facing Senior PM role (focused on matchmaking in a marketplace) or moving to a Platform PM role (focused on re-platforming & getting away from a monolithic architecture), what would you choose? Aakash Gupta George from 🕹prodmgmt.world Paweł Huryn

watch @waymo avoid calamity with a scooter rider

This year I co-founded an augmented reality company, MeshMapXYZ When fundraising last summer, the most common question was whether it was too early. But the deeper I went into XR, the more confident I became that this is the best time to build. Thread on 2024 learnings —>

In 2007, ~70% of Garmin’s $3B in sales was car GPS devices. Then iPhone/Google Maps clapped the business. The stock fell 90% but Garmin pivoted and fitness watches/trackers are now most of its $5B+ sales and its valued at $40B (even surviving the Apple Watch). Impressive chart.

DeepSeek censors its own response in realtime as soon as Xi Jinping is mentioned

Much has changed in downtown San Antonio, except—thank goodness—this 108-year-old German delicatessen. Welcome to Schilo's. 🫛 🍵 🥪🥤🫧 texasmonthly.com/food/schilos-d…

This video of the Guadalupe was shot in Kerrville, Tx from the Center Bridge. Watch how fast these flood waters were traveling & washing everything in front of it out. It goes from low & barley flowing to over the top of the bridge in around 35 minutes. I sped the video up to

Austin, TX home values have now contracted 3 years in a row. -13.9% in 2023 -4.2% in 2024 -5.4% in 2025 Note that this is the biggest housing correction Austin has experienced in the last 25+ years. Even bigger than what occurred in the GFC.