Chris Harris

Acoustic Gardens, 2022. Inter-species HCI The contribution of biogenic recordings grow an animist representation of the relationship to a 'the spirit of a place'. Through repeated collective listening to place, these spawned Genius Loci appear less pixelated into clearer view.

@henrythe9ths FUNDRAISE

I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right team to build this? We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem. Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round. That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work. We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors. We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage. Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper. And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected. And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works. So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then: Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process (because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder). So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years. Here's what you are getting: • The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C) • 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI • A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually) • An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed) Want access? • Like and share this post • Comment "FUNDRAISE" • Follow me so I can DM you the link I'll send it over ASAP. P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

First attempt at removing cars off the roads with neural nets. Will have to dream harder.

Are you folks interested to engage with local ecological knowledge about the killer whales? Here in strait of gibraltar I'm producing research and orcanising for this human-wildlife conflict. I can't remember what to use twitter for. What would you like to know?

@_newcubes_ was interesting to hear you talk about the notion of relationship to and identity with when it comes to caring for bioregional ecological state. Always happy to hear more about design for ecological relationships and cooperation. Staying tuned!

I'll be discussing DAOs as hybrid ecological / digital commons on the next Regen News hour tmrw... let's go

...for an experimental audio piece with experience, insights, speculative storytellings: I produced a piece in this drop with the help of some of my most creative-collaborative friends in Berlin. Limited edition on-chain record @metalabel_xyz / @seedclubvc / @0xFoster to collect:

⌨️ 🧡 NEW QUALITY DROP IS LIVE 🧡 ⌨️ "Several People Are Typing" by Foster x Seed Club A zine exploring the creative potential of collaborations in the age of decentralized media.

foster.metalabel.app/several-people… Several People Are Releasing @metalabel_xyz @0xFoster

Amazing- More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot. I join Sir David Attenborough, calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining because of the irreversible damage it will do to ecosystems. theguardian.com/environment/20… theguardian.com/environment/20…

art doesn't have to be useful, while the affordances of art are, very useful.

@wollekob make love your friend and make friends with those you love. give love to those who shape it best.

💕love advice💕 i fell in love with a girl that I met yesterday, she's beautiful and open and smart. I also am in love with another girl that for me is the epitome of love. what advice can you give my heart twitter?

@0x_salon #ProphetMotives

accessible generation of synthetic plausibility further exposes historians as convincing imaginative story tellers. True or False is emotional, it returns from a function of moral resonance to a consensus of embodied score keepers.

The best historians are prophets;

@AnneSelke But also exercise more during the day and only drink one coffee before noon :)

@AnneSelke 8pm lights off. candles only. Drink tea with lavender and wheatgrass. Voice call a friend without looking at the phone. Write in a notebook. Think about who you will ask for wisdom in your dreams and how you will be calm, caring and vivaciously exuberant again tomorrow.

I'm sleeping bad. I want an elaborate and charming pre-bed ritual. Send ideas!!

@austinrobey_ @daspitzberg @_HHFF @ntnsndr @velefante22 @divyasiddarth @againstutopia Depends on the mission of the group, and v mch the emotional safety too. Crit in tekmil comes to mind incase you're planning a revolution theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tekosi…

@austinrobey_ @daspitzberg @_HHFF @ntnsndr @velefante22 @divyasiddarth @againstutopia I really like weekly retrospective questions all answered in a group channel. The choice of q's are key for maintaining energy across different interpersonal layers. I've helped a few product teams design retro formats like this, though it's more peer-group-review than p2p

What are some frameworks or examples for group peer review/ collective self-management? cc: @_HHFF @ntnsndr @daspitzberg @velefante22 @divyasiddarth @againstutopia

We should be learning how to create better opportunities for eachother

@sebkrier They have already been doing this artist & song replication manually in studio for quite some time! Bit gross.

they kinda sound like what a good music generation model would output? on the other hand however maybe I'm insane

Something weird going on with the Spotify recommender algo. I get completely unknown tracks/artists with 0 online presence, but that sound VERY similar to stuff I listened to immediately before. Some also uploaded to YouTube Music this week. Something off about the artwork too?

@AnneSelke I thought I was dense in dodecadence until I prized in your presence tense

@hellokozmo I thought I knew English until I found myself googling every 12th word you use

I thought I was a poet errant until I met @AnneSelke