Asher King-Abramson

Three and a half years ago, I wrote up my personal mission statement and values. I revisited them today and they still hold 100% true. I expect to say the same thing in 50 years. Please share yours below 👇

@eriktorenberg No one better to do it!!

Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS. Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X. We’re seeding it alongside other angel investors such as Dan Romero, Packy McCormick, Soona Amhaz, Julia DeWahl, Austin Rief, Ryan Delk, Jonathan Swanson and more. The founding team includes @ChrisJBakke @theojaffee @gbrl_dick , @netcapgirl, among others. MTS’s initial hosts include the above as well as @MarkHalperin @creatine_cycle @amitisinvesting @labenz @JackFarley96 @jessegenet @stevesi , and more experts across tech, finance, politics, and culture.  MTS aims to be the best place in the world to make sense of what’s happening, *right now*, and it’ll be on X.  This was the original vision for CNN by the way. They called it “Randemonium”. The idea was, whatever the Current Thing happening in the world, put it on CNN full time, cover it from every possible angle, and keep it running until a more important Current Thing comes along. The CNN model has to wait for something to happen IRL. But something is always happening on X. And of course, X is — and has always been, the real world. Or at the very least, it’s the place where the people who run the real world make sense of what’s happening.  Essentially, what the hell is happening and why? The world’s an incredibly complex and erratic place and trying to figure that out is a lifetime occupation.  Figuring that out is the occupation of MTS. To Monitor the Situation is to watch history in the making.  P.S. MTS is looking for hosts, guests, sponsors, teammates, and other monitors to help make sense of what’s happening. Reach out if this is you, and feel free to join the MTS discord.

@flyosity There's a new king and it's you

First in my bloodline to run an LLM locally from the Burger King conference room

@eriktorenberg “I’m a flex 5”

@thedanigrant @matthewrubright Jam is in good hands, and excited for you to heal!

Couldn’t be more excited to see @matthewrubright stepping in as the new CEO of Jam! He’s an incredible leader and has been running the ship for the past few months while I’ve been dealing with a severe autoimmune issue, and today we’re making that official as I’m stepping away to focus on recovering. It’s been the adventure of a lifetime to get to build Jam with this insanely brilliant and goofy team and with all of you - the hundreds of thousands of Jammers in 175+ countries changing the world through software. When we started Jam, I never imagined that someone would create the 15 millionth Jam (!!!) or that our product would be used more than 85,000 times a day (often by autonomous AIs, no less) to fix issues fast and get back to what matters, building the future 💜 Watch this team. They are amazing :) I’ll be cheering loudly from the sidelines, big things ahead for Jam! 🍓🚀

@eriktorenberg Hack for this: work for people you’d want to make money for

When someone gets more successful than you, or has some blessing that you don’t have, you could be jealous, or you could be happy for them. Learn to be happy for them, because otherwise everyday you will have a moment of suffering, since there will always be someone who gets something you don’t have, and you will never have enough. Conversely, the happier you are for other people, the happier they will be for you when you’re successful, and the more they will directly contribute to your success. As a result you will have more abundance, and you will also feel like you have enough because you aren’t negatively comparing yourself to what other people have. Instead of competing and playing zero sum games with the people in your life, you are contributing to their and your own flourishing, and to more abundance more generally since generosity of spirit is contagious.

@eriktorenberg The real challenge is how you react when you get beat off the dribble and your teammates don’t rotate to help

Note to my younger self, though it applies at any age: Over your life, there are going to be thousands of times that you get triggered — something happens that makes you feel insecure, anxious, jealous, threatened, etc How you respond is going to determine the quality of your relationships. If you build your emotional capacity and resilience by learning how to move through the feelings without dumping them on others, your relationships will have much more safety and trust and connection. The more offended you are and the more you respond from that insecure or entitled place, the more you are going to push people away even though your desire is the exact opposite. When you do inevitably get into conflict, every conflict you have could be the seed of resentment and bitterness, or the seed for more connection and a better solution. That’s what I would have tried to master much earlier in life — how to build more emotional capacity so that I don’t act in ways that bring me further away from people and how to have a conflict in ways that bring me closer to them instead. This is something that you can learn intellectually, but you also need to learn it emotionally to be able to use it when you really need it.

@seanlinehan What tools do you recommend for engs to design? I find Claude/Cursor/etc generally isn’t great out of the box without a lot of structure Liked magic patterns when I tried it but was maybe 80% there

2019 job titles in tech are now meaningless. My designer codes, my engineers design, everybody writes, PMs are designing and coding and selling, infra is code, marketing is code, everything is code, chat is the unified interface. It's a whole new game folks.

@justindross Boy dinner

My wife isn’t home so for dinner I ate a handful of cereal, 5 mozzarella sticks, 2 pickled spicy quail eggs and a finger scoop of Nutella. Turns out the thin line between civilization and chaos is one woman with standards.

@justindross @roelofbotha @rabois Terrific idea! Love it and I see the opendoor roots

@JeremyGurewitz I’m never a fan of spray and pray, but if folks are going to do it, I would approach it like a sales sequence (prepopulate an application but manually tweak it before submitting)

If you use an auto apply service, it's trivially easy to tell because the application is terrible and we will reject you. If you're looking for a job, just apply directly.

@eriktorenberg The @ShaneBattier approach

People often think rising up in an organization requires getting better at self-advocacy, but often what’s also needed is the opposite: being lower ego and lower friction and being such a good teammate that others want to include you and thus advocate on your behalf.

@MBHeartIV @thebenroyer @CDullyDB CC @BobPlacak

@MBHeartIV @thebenroyer @CDullyDB It’s crazy to me we don’t have alumni reunions

Bob Myers on Dodgers manager Dave Roberts' role in the UCLA football head coach hiring process, turning into a sort of unofficial hiring committee member as the Bruins vied for and landed James Madison coach Bob Chesney: Transcribed by @CDullyDB:

@bb_fresh There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.

You spend your whole career engineering around some fundamental design limitation of an AWS service and one day you wake up and that limitation is just….gone

@ericlu Fastest solution is to bid for your branded keywords if you aren’t already and make sure Kapwing is in the headline. Usually only costs a few bucks a day. Dark business pattern from google for sure 🤷‍♂️

omg theres 5+ sponsored results that literally take our title and tagline when I search for kapwing, so crazy and idk if there's anything we can do?

@ericlu Lunchtime tennis if WFH is also a great hack

been really enjoying playing tennis lately. I think the secret in sf is to go to a tennis court at 9pm, which is when the reservation slots end, but still an hour from lights off

@cjav_dev @StainlessAPI Congrats!

Personal news: I started a new role @StainlessAPI

@paulg More evidence for the power of teaching people to parent differently. It’s recursive because your kids will parent their kids differently, those kids parent their kids, etc.

Something that's obvious in retrospect but I only noticed after years as a primary school parent: kids who are bullies or assholes tend to have parents who are too, and this often makes it hard for the administrators to keep a lid on bad behavior.

@thedanigrant @OpenAI So awesome!!

Ok so...imagine your browser let you edit the web like a figma Live from @OpenAI DevDay

@r00k I like “just to make sure I have it right, you’re saying X?”

Just about every time I respond to someone with "what I think I'm hearing you say is X" 1. I feel cringey and pedantic. 2. X is slightly to significantly wrong.