David Axelrod

@paulg Agreed, like elastic vs inelastic deformation

This is the aspect of climate change that I worry most about — when instead of seeing gradual degradation, we cross an irreversible line.

@expo Expo is remarkable, feel lucky to benefit from your relentless progress.

🙌 Expo is the best it's ever been, and it's about to get a lot better. We raised a Series B so we can go faster on the things that matter to you: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and the services to make end-to-end app development a delightful experience. There is a lot of work to do. This round led by @Georgian_io puts us in position to go do it!

@brian_armstrong I don't think it's healthy for the primary home screen modal to be about levering up. Financial leverage has destroyed so many lives.

Our world is built by those who install soffits and know how many fixtures the UPC says you can have on a bathroom wet vent. Proud to serve those people.

@Not_the_Bee Bias is built in. monoculture.ai

I asked ChatGPT to give a thumbs up or down for all 100 senators. The results are ridiculous. All but 2 Dems got a thumbs up, all but 4 Republicans got a thumbs down (and those 4 Republicans with thumbs up are Murkowski, Collins, Romney and Britt...aka not real Republicans)

@GonzalezJulius @paulg @ConfusedSith No

@David_Axelrod @paulg @ConfusedSith bogometer.com this?

@paulg @ConfusedSith Ah nice. You don’t happen to have a picture or video of it somewhere do you? Cool piece of internet history.

@David_Axelrod @ConfusedSith Bogometer. It didn't chime, but it was driven by fairly noisy mechanical servos.

@sahill_og Claude fund it

- Claude gave me idea - Claude make architecture - Claude code built it - Claude review it - Claude secure it Am I missing something??

Buying Amazon for its Anthropic feels like buying Yahoo for its Alibaba.

@GergelyOrosz We had a Waterloo intern last summer @BuildTrayd who built 7 or 8 useful internal tools for Trayd. He had an enormous bias towards action and just always improved a process if it annoyed him.

Inside a group of ~50 CTOs + founders. Talking about hiring new grads. 4 of them violently agreeing to how amazing University of Waterloo [Canada] is doing something so right - and their goto place to hire standout interns + new grads. What is Waterloo doing others are not?

@moseskagan Professional shops almost always use a schedule of values and aia 702

When negotiating a construction contract: Never agree to ambiguous milestones like "25% completed". All this does is set you up to argue with the contractor about what constitutes "25%". Instead, peg progress payments to objective milestones, like "rough framing completed and signed off by city inspector". This way, there can be no dispute about whether the milestone has been reached / payment is due. - For more on the business of buying, renovating and managing real estate, join my mailing list at moseskagan.com

@thedankoe @nikitabier there have been a lot more of these blogs recently. I wish I could listen to them on my walk home, either the author reads it or have some ai voice do it.

@bskdany It is common for a company to make their engineering interview center around a problem that they’ve already been focusing on internally. It answers the question “did the candidate do it like we did it? Are there any blind spots we had?”

Astoria, Astor place and the Waldorf Astoria are all named after John Astor. One of the richest men in the world at the time. Didn’t survive the titanic.

@SpeculatorArt @Jake_SX9 Wouldn't you say that FanDuel and DraftKings are gambling companies?

Etrade does not magically become a gambling company if it's users decide to gamble on 0dte options. You can counter that sports markets are gambling regardless if they are p2p order books vs sports book. I'd argue that sports betting, like poker, has been misclassified as the true test for gambling should be whether it is a game of chance or a game of skill. Fantasy Sports, for example, has been classified as a game of skill, despite 85% of users being net losers.

I think most people dunking on Prediction Markets / Kalshi as gambling simply do not understand the modern world. 30% of Robinhood volume in February 2025 was zero day to expiration options. One out of Three. Is Robinhood a gambling company?

"8% of the SPY is Nvidia". Would you rather there have been little to no returns instead?

@bgurley I think it’s important for health insurance premiums to be pre tax which is hard to do outside of payroll time. Vast majority of people take the standard deduction so making premiums tax deductible wouldn’t leave people better off.

💯 Simple way to simplify our broken HC system. Get the employer out of the loop. US only structure. They are a reluctant and unnecessary participant.

@AcquiredFM Incredible

This is insane.

@CreatedByJannn @Hetzner_Online I know Django admin when I see it. Congrats!!