Bilal Zuberi

Great to see Jensen’s views align with us. Four core values of @redglassvc Curiosity Intensity Integrity Humility First two makes you technically smart Next two make you a good human

Reminded today… When web search engines were relatively new, I knew friends who were expert at using Boolean operators to better design their searches. Then it became irrelevant. From Claude: The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines by Randolph “Ran” Hock — first published in 1999 by CyberAge Books, with a second edition in 2001. It covered the operation and use of major search engines of the day such as AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Northern Light, WebCrawler, and Yahoo, including features like phrase searching and Boolean operators. Hock was well-credentialed for it — he was a former librarian at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, and had held training positions at DIALOG Information Services and Knight-Ridder Information, two of the big pre-web research database companies. It later evolved into The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook, which went through multiple editions into the 2010s. For context on why those AND/OR techniques mattered back then: AltaVista, launched in December 1995, introduced advanced search operators that power users loved — Boolean logic, phrase searching, and domain-specific searches — and for several years in the late 1990s was considered the most technologically advanced search engine available. So there was a real appetite for guides teaching people how to use these tools properly. There were also other books in the same niche around that time, like Find It Online by Alan Schlein and the Researching Online for Dummies series — it was a whole genre during the late ’90s/early 2000s internet boom before Google made searching more intuitive and killed the need for Boolean syntax in everyday use.

We agree on some things. And we don’t agree on some things. But we both believe that we must harness technology to improve the lives of ALL Americans. Silicon Valley must work in service of America, vs the other way around.

Woohoo @AppliedInt and @Nominal_io!

PE deals to take public companies private, and SPACs to take private companies public, are all ramping up simultaneously. We will look back at this time in finance history with bewilderment.

Excited to join my good friend @KanuGulati in this conversation.

@chrishume_ Agree.

Whomever made this needs a raise. My goodness.

@leehower I agree. Infrastructure doesn’t just function on its own. The glue that holds it together is extremely valuable.

@bznotes Indeed. There's a whole layer of fleet management, w/ physical assets + at least some humans, that will be required to enable the AV future 😉

Saw a Waymo on a tow truck yesterday. And realized these tow truck drivers may still have a job 20 years from now.

Manipulators are important…

Congrats Joe and the Deviation team!

@pitdesi People running these government X accounts should be fired. They are idiots.

Who’s gonna tell him

What??

@parand mandihouse.com

@bznotes Where?

Delicious Yemeni “Mandi” in LA!

@sajid_sadpara Congrats!

Alhamdulilah summitted world 5th highest mountain Makalu . #Makalu

@saif305 haha..a while though.

@bznotes Until Towmo.

“If you have never heard Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sing, close this article and go listen. Come back when the room has stopped spinning. I will wait.”

Take their jet engines, use them to generate electricity for data centers, get $Bs in contracts. VCs are so excited about turbines.

Discussing how data will rule the physical world with @CameronLMcCord of @Nominal_io.

Oh fun…SBIR mills don’t go away.