Andrew Song

You’re really lucky, you know that? You didn’t have to wait your whole life to do something special. - Walter White

@Nexuist @sdamico Was it Bellarmine?

This actually kind of happened to us. Our team went to FRC Worlds in 2016 where a SV based team wiped the floor with their Android based computer vision app. But it turns out that they were using a Google Pixel, which at the time was an unreleased smartphone, only accessible to the team because one of the parents was a Google employee. Nothing happened but they did update the rules to say that you weren't allowed to use hardware that wasn't generally accessible to everyone else after that

Waiting for the first PED scandal involving Bay Area high school robotics teams

Meanwhile, you knuckleheads are tripping over SOC2 testing when margins are better than SaaS #gid=212815877" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

They would rather let these people drown to death.

I've spent 3+ years of my life working on climate change. And honestly? Most of the people in this space have no clue what they're doing. I don't care if you went to Harvard or have a PhD. The results speak for themselves, and they're embarrassing. But it goes deeper than that. The real talent isn't coming to climate. Why would they? There's no money in it. It's the same reason swimming doesn't attract NBA-level athletes. You go where the incentives are, and right now that's AI. The smartest people I know are building chatbots, not decarbonizing anything. So you're left with a field full of people who care a lot but can't execute. And instead of figuring out how to build and scale real solutions, half of them are pushing degrowth. Their answer to climate change is literally "shrink the economy, consume less, go backwards." They don't want to solve the problem with innovation — they want to use it as a backdoor to restructure society. And then they wonder why nobody's buying in. This has been going on for 40+ years. Decades of conferences, research papers, panels. And it's only getting hotter. At some point you have to ask the uncomfortable question: why have the people who've owned this problem for this long gotten so little done? Stop gatekeeping. Stop using climate as a vehicle for degrowth ideology. Start building something that actually works.

No seriously, go to LinkedIn and look up Chief Sustainability Officers and you will be deeply underwhelmed.

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@nephew_jonathan @CJHandmer @202accepted Jimmy is a customer and has been to a balloon launch :)

@ASong408 @CJHandmer @202accepted wait you’re friends with Jimmy? I mean if they’re hydrogen this shouldn’t be that difficult (maybe there isn’t enough oxygen in the stratosphere?)

This article is 6 years late claude.ai/public/artifac… Instead they hyped up non-scalable projects that were the equivalent of paper straws.

@nephew_jonathan @CJHandmer ok, @202accepted do you know anyone that can make our Earth cooling balloons go BOOM?

@ASong408 @CJHandmer I’m saying you should hire a pyrotechnic expert

@nephew_jonathan @CJHandmer We've been using hydrogen since 1/2025

@ASong408 Helium is about to skyrocket in price anyways. Given that sulfur dioxide is best produced by burning sulfur à la @CJHandmer—

I genuinely respect @stripe, which makes this frustrating to say: their Frontier Climate program funded projects with no realistic path to profitability, betting that government subsidies would bridge the gap. Many of those projects are now dead. The lesson here matters — climate tech that can't survive without policy miracles isn't climate tech. If they took the billion that they dedicated towards whatever they funded, and instead just yeeted SO2 into the stratosphere, we would be having a different conversation.

Three years ago we wrote about what would happen if we moved shipping fuel sulfur emissions to the stratosphere instead of just eliminating them. The short version: it could offset all human-caused warming, using existing balloon technology, for ~$10B/year. makesunsets.com/blogs/news/mov… The science on this has only gotten stronger since then. What hasn't changed is the gap between people studying the problem and people willing to act on solutions that already exist. We're launching monthly. The math works. What are we waiting for?

Andrew Yang: "Wealth taxes are a disaster, because wealth is portable." "I joke with people. It's like, guys, you cannot think that rich people are rancid assholes but that they'll stick around if you decide to hike taxes."

@powerbottomdad1 Congrats brother!

everyones happy and healthy, praise God amen?