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Daniel Miller

@DanielMrkMiller

glass house, white Ferrari, live for New Year’s Eve. Sometime VC recruiter / talent person.

California Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
Asked after the game what they discussed, LeBron said: "I just told him he was good out there, but that there's nobody bigger in AI than Scott Wu. He was a chess champion, great at smash brothers (but only final destination WITH items), and he even beat me in a game of Horse."
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
@publicinte Scott Wu once saw LeBron James at a fundraising event in Carmel. Jokingly, Scott said "You know, I saw somebody play basketball once." LeBron laughed, and then LOST to Scott in a 1 on 1 game to 11.
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Pavel Prata@pavelprata·
Which Seed investors had the best April? I used @harmonic_ai to look at every company in the US and Europe that raised a Series A, B, or C and ask a simple question: who seeded them? In April 2026, I identified 111 companies across the US and Europe that announced a Series A, B, or C round and had at least one prior seed or pre-seed round on record. Then I traced every institutional investor (VC funds, angel groups, venture studios) that participated in those seed rounds. Each seed-to-upround conversion is scored using three factors – all derived from the April round itself: 1/ Stage Weight: - Series C = 3x - Series B = 2x - Series A = 1x Later-stage conversions are harder to reach and signal stronger company trajectories. 2/ Round Size Weight: Rather than using fixed dollar thresholds, we calibrate against the month’s actual distribution. A $100M Series A is exceptional, a $100M Series C is slightly above average. The scoring reflects that: - Top 10% for its stage = 3x (A ≥ $60M, B ≥ $110M, C ≥ $193M) - Top 25% = 2x (A ≥ $30M, B ≥ $65M, C ≥ $106M) - Above median = 1.5x (A ≥ $17M, B ≥ $45M, C ≥ $80M) - Below median = 1x These thresholds recalibrate every month from the actual round data – so the scoring stays relevant as the market shifts. 3/ Lead Bonus: If the fund led the original seed round, the score gets a 1.5x multiplier. Leading a seed requires pricing discipline and conviction – worth rewarding when that bet pays off. The composite score is Stage × Size × Lead Bonus, stacked across all hits in the month. Tier-1 mega-platforms (aka money banks) are excluded. The top 5 funds in April, by conversion score: - @Liquid2V - @4biocapital - @airstreet - @PointNineCap - @BoostVC Again, this is not a fund ranking. I don’t have AUM data for most funds, and I don’t know which fund vehicle made the investment. What I do have is a monthly conversion signal – a real-time view of which seed investors are seeing their portfolio companies break through to significant later-stage rounds. Over time, the signal compounds. A fund that appears once could be lucky. A fund that shows up three months in a row with multiple hits is telling you something about the quality of their picking. And we're going to track this every month at @murphcapital.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.' In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents. James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's. In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure. Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat. Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first. The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
Anthropic doing some sort of event on Market Street. Dozens of homeless people pushed north to Hayes. Reported to 311 - report closed 3 min later as invalid bc my picture (from across street, since I didn't want to walk through an encampment) was "just people standing". @SF311
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
Twitter is just a bunch of sub reddit jammed into one feed. Here's a top post today from "r/ElonStans", which despite blocking / muting "elon musk" I'm still exposed to. It's a terrible product compared to actual reddit. Quixotically, Grok is the best consumer AI app.
Carl@HistoryBoomer

A LOT of people are dunking on Elon for this. They are making a big mistake. I dislike Elon, but this is a silly attack. Common sense should have stopped people from making it. Common sense is in short supply. Folks are claiming that when "Maye Musk's" tweet refers to "your mom," "she's" referring to Elon's mom, which is, of course, herself, which would be pretty weird. So, they conclude Elon must be using alt accounts. According to this theory, when Elon sent the tweet, he thought he was logged into his dad's account, which is why he was referring to "your mom," but he accidentally logged into his mom's account and ended up looking foolish. Superficially plausible, except for one giant flaw... According to this theory, "your mom," Elon's mom, Maye Musk, was "cleaning toilets in a Liverpool boarding house as a child." But Maye Musk was born in Canada and grew up in South Africa! Maye Musk was never cleaning Liverpool toilets! Who was cleaning toilets? Elon's DAD's mom. His paternal grandmother. His grandmother (Cora Robinson) grew up in Liverpool! In other words, when Maye Musk refers to "your mom," it's a typo, and she's clearly referring to "your dad's mom," who is the only one of the two of them who grew up in Liverpool! This is all very obvious once you look at their bios, but people who don't like Musk want to believe the worst of him, so they jumped on the story. I admit, my first reaction was glee, "Aha, silly Elon, this is awesome," but I knew I had to double-check before tweeting a dunk. And immediately the theory fell apart. I wouldn't bother writing this long clarification, but Maye Musk's tweet has received hundreds of replies making fun of Elon's supposed error. I've also seen big accounts spreading this story. Be careful out there, people. Don't spread misinformation!

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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
@griswold Nobody thinks imessage is the spiritual successor to AIM…
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Matt Griswold@griswold·
In retrospect, the killer feature was the "Sign Off" button. AOL Instant Messenger was synchronous. Unlike texting, seeing a "buddy" online generally meant they were present and open to chat. After a while, you left (as though from a real place), and the sound of a door slamming shut confirmed your exit. You were no longer there, and everyone knew it. Life was good. Then we made chat asynchronous. You may think iMessage is the spiritual evolution of AIM, but they are not the same species. In an asynchronous experience, everyone is always simultaneously online and away. Not far enough 'away' to be 'offline', but not present either. You can only know if the other person is really here by sending a message and watching for the status to change from Sent to Read. Call it "Schroedinger's Chat" I know this sounds like an Andy Rooney bit (a reference only the AIM OGs will understand), but I am not asking to go back. I just think we left something behind that we need to bring back. We all live on the Internet now. We are 'here' every day for hours, and yet we have no presence. We are asynchronous ghosts in most of today's apps. We could use more synchronicity. At least enough to notice when someone isn't present. Enough to "Sign Off" and hear the door slam as you go.
RetroNewsNow@RetroNewsNow

On May 1, 1997, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was released

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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
Pretty decent chance that by being the best consumer AI model platform, ElevenLabs will have a higher terminal value than one of Anthropic or OpenAI
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
Love the AI era in popular media because we get great headlines like this
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
@yrechtman How about the all in for Trump because it was necessary to save startups, or whatever rationalization they came up with
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
@dhvanil Most software products do have "taste" in their design, but that taste is overwhelmingly not valued by the user who in most cases just want cheap utility.
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my hot take is that "taste is a uniquely human thing" is cope. one simple example: i've noticed that friends of mine who are not designers at all (for example, backend / infra people) were making projects with ai 2 years ago that looked obviously sloppy. now the same people are shipping things that look… pretty polished. probably good enough that a junior designer could pass it off as their own work. and when i ask them what changed -- did you learn some design fundamentals? did your 'visual taste' improve? are you better at noticing bad spacing / typography / color hues? most of the time the answer is just: the tools got better. the models got better. i can only judge this for visual design / frontend because that’s where i feel like i have some taste. but i’m pretty sure the same thing is happening in copywriting, backend architecture, research ideas, product taste, etc. yes, prompting matters. yes, having a good taste yourself still matters. but the median 'taste' of an ai model in 2023 and the median taste of an ai model in 2026 are very different. there is a waterline of taste and it is rising very fast. sloppification of the internet was a temporary phase.
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MERICA MEMED
MERICA MEMED@Mericamemed·
Man, no one in my high school was doing anything near this innovative.
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
@ddpaskoff @mtracey Is everybody in this thread a bot? It’s been an extremely well covered story how this was uncovered
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ddpaskoff🐊@ddpaskoff·
@mtracey Not to defend this guy, but why doesn't anyone ever expose who orchestrated and planned the takedown of Swalwell? This happens over and over again. All this oppo research is planned and released at just the right time and we are always told "everybody knew".
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Michael Tracey@mtracey·
This woman says she exchanged some flirtatious messages with Swalwell, he asked her to meet up, she didn't want to, and then they stopped talking. That's it. But now she's an "accuser" -- and even a "survivor"! Amazing
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Daniel Miller@DanielMrkMiller·
This may perfectly capture the nadir of Trump's second term.
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Siqi Chen@blader·
at dinner with my wife couple next to us on a first date date’s going well, she’s into it then: guy: “i’m really into this really complicated card game” girl: “oh my god, is it canasta? i LOVE canasta!”” guy: “it’s called magic: the gathering.” me (inside): ohhh nooooo …
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