Thomas Forbes

@jackoregankenny @underthenettle @stripepress Would have loved to but I'm back in Europe for the summer

@underthenettle @stripepress @ThomasForbesy you should go!

Stripe Press is coming to Washington, DC! ☕📚🌸 We're hosting a pop-up coffee shop and bookstore on Saturday, June 28. RSVP here: lu.ma/kcnytcqs

@atamb_ favorite metal?

metals

the mechanics institute in sf is the nicest place i've ever worked out of. cosy wooden desks tucked away in a labyrinth of niche archival texts

This figure from Gracner et al. (2024) makes an important claim about obesity. It is from a natural experiment in which some babies were exposed to sugar rationing in their first years after birth. The results show that those who had lower sugar intake as babies had lower obesity rates as adults. The hazard ratio for obesity is shown on the Y-axis. If these results hold up, then we can conclude that diet matters in a deeper way than simply the calories consumed in the present moment. It can affect the body's propensity for obesity in the future. This experiment is about sugar, but if the dynamic is established, it could also likely apply to other kinds of food.

@edi_sf @mon__lim what chairs are those? they look perfect

Just moved into a new apartment. @mon__lim what do you think?

the balloon wrangling low key required some skill at points

we helped over 100 people build their first robot. As my graduating gift to Waterloo, I gave 37 teams a robot kit I designed, and took over the engineering buildings to host the largest robot hackathon, ever. The demos are unreal!—check them out below

Spent the last weekend building a robot in waterloo and winning the "autonomous" prize. Thank you @sincethestudy for hosting and @Harryoc493 for carrying

I’m at the point in my life where Im starting to seek danger

the data inside government forms should be stored in .json not .pdf

@Appyg99 haha same

Just bought a bunch of Nvidia stock. Thanks psyop for the 15% discount

110% I was working on an animation heavy web app and opening it on safari turned my battery into a timer

hey! i'm moving to sf from May to August to work on hardware @ Lumindt (energy storage co) excited to meet some of you while I'm there, but also looking to find housing with interesting people. if you know of any group houses or people looking for roomies, shoot me a DM!

@theo full send

Please don't make me do this

@naklecha what book is that?

i’m most happy and productive when i realign my goals every few months. every time i forget to do this, i lose all motivation and momentum. ^this observation + the book’s advice combined have gotten me across every creative/motivation slump that i have ever had in the past.

@willob hell yeah

Making a group chat for technology brothers and sisters that like to lift weights. Share goals, be held accountable, celebrate your wins and ask for advice. Who’s in?

@s8mb Thank god they waited until the end of innovation

@ShukantP probably you the past week

Money is a cure for so little.

@gregisenberg I feel I've gone down this path a little...

Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though. He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words - basic ones. Like his brain was buffering. Finally asked if he was okay. His response floored me. "Sometimes I forget words now. I'm so used to having ChatGPT complete my thoughts that when it's not there, my brain feels... slower." He'd been using AI for everything. Writing, thinking, communication. It had become his external brain. And now his internal one was getting weaker. Made me think about calculators. Remember how teachers said we needed to learn math because "you won't always have a calculator"? They were wrong about that. But maybe they were right about something deeper. We're running the first large-scale experiment on human cognition. What happens when an entire generation outsources their thinking? Don’t get me wrong, I’m beyond excited about what AI and AI agents will do for people in the same way that I was excited in 2009 when the App Store was launched. But thinking out loud you got to think this guy I met with isn't the onnnnnly one that's going to be completely dependent on AI.

@Harryoc493 busting

Motor Testing..

@techbrospod Can I get 3 Ramp SDRs at my beck and call?

You get three. Which are you taking? - Patek Philippe 6300A-010 - McLaren F1 - G650ER - 100K followers on X - Lipizzaner stallion - World tour of Aman properties - Selling $5MM of secondary pre-PMF - World-class secretary - Saddam Hussein's golden AK-47 - Your Ramp SDR