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@AmberIllig @OfficialNathanY

Looking for 1-2 new folks to join a robotics dinner on Thursday. So far it's mostly folks we know from companies like Samsara, Zoox, Cruise, Form Energy, Snap Hardware. Request an invite here if you're a founder or founder-curious in this space: luma.com/fkp89q3f

@Ayussheth would love in

Thinking of starting a community for people who want to learn hardware, work in hardware, or just enjoy tinkering with things in general. Reply to the tweet if you want in.

also as a side note: the reason the deployment opportunity is so big imo is not because it's non-obvious, but because most "smart" people don't want to go to rural/unsexy parts of the country and get their hands dirty (they'd rather raise money and pontificate from their ivory tower)

robotics is inherently about hardware, however I'm meeting more and more founders who want to find a software (or just non-hardware) business to build for robotics. thoughts: > software is behind hardware (so this realization is correct, but not unique), and "robot brain" is indeed a hard problem to solve (further out than most think). that being said, I don't think solving robot intelligence as a company that is neither 1) collecting data (either by robot deployment, or other means) nor 2) a true research company like PI makes a lot of sense > Selling dev tools to robotics companies is a horrible business idea right now (sounds smart, but not enough robot deployments + nowhere near the #1 pain point) > the most obvious non-hardware opportunity is in the deployment gap. specifically, imo the demand for businesses in manual labor that want to try robotic solutions *today* I believe is much greater than most people realize, however no robot (humanoid to service bot) is ready to work out of the box (i.e. someone needs to come set them up, teleop, maintain etc). if I were thinking about a business, I would think about doing something that helps old-school, regular-ass businesses put robots into their space tl;dr build stuff that actively puts more robots into the world

@IlirAliu_ @OfficialNathanY

Dear algorithm: please show this to people interested in robotics, embodied AI, automation, and manufacturing around New York and the East Coast. We’re bringing together founders, engineers, and operators during NYC Tech Week to talk about what it actually takes to move robots from prototype to production. Tag someone who should be in the room or DM me if you want to join.

The most important decision of your life

In my first weeks at Astranis, I went to every engineering lead and said "hi, I'm dumb, how does [XYZ] work?" Turned my notes into an onboarding guide, which we used for our next ~500 hires. Many great things are downstream of being willing to look dumb!

@rushilkukreja Hit my friend up!

in LA/El segundo for the next few days. anyone in the area?

@_MichaelCole Bullish on Michael

Anyone in robotics, AI research, or hard tech willing to take a bet on me this summer? I've worked as an engineer in startups since 16 (mostly consumer software) and will be going to Carnegie Mellon next summer (unless you convince me to drop out). DMs are open!

Bureaucracy and the greed of companies that don't buy into the mission of supporting servicemen are just one of many things that prevent us from having mass scale and manufacturing. One-time purchase of licensing/manufacturing rights needs to be a thing.

@g_kasten Interested! lets talk on signal!

building for the physical world? shadow the biggest hard tech founders, visit factory floors, meet engineering teams and learn up close 1 day this summer. invite only @ reply or DM if interested

@teaganyuen1 Definitely a career make-or-break swing

$100k budget. san francisco. one dick joke. ceo doesn't know yet. if this tweet doesn't go viral i am going to be in so much trouble tomorrow

Life advice nobody told you: Talent and intelligence are overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that talent and intelligence are abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

An underrated cheat code in life: being incredibly reliable. Show up on time. Do what you say you will. Own your mistakes. It goes so much further than you think.

Some really cool people are asking to be invited to my poker nights, so I decided to host weekly poker games for young (high school/dropouts/college) people interested in startups all summer. Buy-ins decided day of. Luma calendar below.

The reason so many very successful founder have a ‘touch of the tism’ is because what makes you more successful as a child makes you less successful as an adult. To win as a child you need to follow rules and get along with everyone to fit in. To win as an adult you need to write your own rules, get along with few people, and differentiate. So if you’re split between two paths: conventional wisdom and your own path - pick your own. You’ll either be very right or very wrong. But no one wins big following the herd.

How to start a company: - step 1: tell everyone you're starting a company - step 2: everyone tells you the market is saturated, the timing is wrong, and you should get a real job first - step 3: start anyway - step 4: realise the people who told you not to start have never started anything it's a weird, humbling, occasionally terrifying, euphoric experience and there's no other way to find out who you actually are under pressure just start the thing bro

the best founders i know are ok looking stupid they dm strangers, post unfinished work, ask dumb questions ego is the bottleneck

I have infinite respect for friends who don’t gatekeep opportunities and instead open up their world to you. So many of my serendipitous moments this past year came from one friend who did that for me.