Todd Peoples

@WillManidis @nonmayorpete Wait, people don’t invest in VC to make money?

@nonmayorpete much in the same way you don’t invest in a venture capital fund to make money you certainly don’t invest in hospitality to make money, fundamentally misunderstanding why people do any of this

Serious question: who’s investing in this type of thing and do they ever make any money?

Sneak peek at one of our upcoming projects in Austin, made possible by Austin's HOME initiative. 3 homes where there was once 1, each sized for younger families and folks who normally couldn't afford to live in Brentwood. And maybe most importantly... beautifully designed courtyards that bend around a few trees that have been there for over a hundred years.

SpaceX has released a statement after today's 12th Starship test flight: "The flight test began with Super Heavy igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines and ascending over the Gulf of America. A single Raptor engine shut down during ascent. The successful first-stage ascent was followed by a hot-staging maneuver, with Starship’s upper stage igniting its six Raptor engines to continue its flight to space. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn. It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn. It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America. During its ascent burn to space, Starship lost one of the Raptor 3 vacuum engines but demonstrated its engine-out capability and achieved its planned trajectory. During coast, Starship successfully deployed all 20 Starlink simulators and two modified Starlink satellites that imaged Starship in space. These simulators and modified Starlink satellites were on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship. Starship re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and was able to gather critical data on the performance of its heatshield and structural strength. In the final minutes of flight, Starship performed a maneuver to intentionally stress the structural limits of the vehicle’s rear flaps and a dynamic banking move to mimic the trajectory that future missions returning to Starbase will fly. Starship then guided itself using its four flaps to the pre-planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean, and executed a landing flip, landing burn, and splashdown on two Raptor engines."

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse. “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.” If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible. ‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now. Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century? I started looking into it and I have not recovered. God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place. But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin. Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos. The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill. Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone. The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word. Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen. None of them knew they were collaborating. Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see. And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared. John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.” Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person. The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

im not sure whats happening but all my feral free agent friends are getting jobs 9 years solo next week hope to make it at least 10 lol

We're partnering with developers to spark a housing renaissance across American cities. On June 25th we'll talk about the entitlement, design, and construction tradeoffs that make small-multifamily pencil, at least in the markets we're working in. We'd love for you to join us!

@DassCoool @AppyOrtho Where in the Bible does it say to stay away from people who are different than you?

Yep for us that’s a small private school and our Greek Orthodox Church and partaking in all the family church activities. Need to be away from the woke anti family, anti Jesus, anti European, anti traditional roles people and their violence. It’s almost 2k a month for school but only during school year and church is whatever you are comfortable giving. It’s important to curate who is around your kids and it helps our adult sanity being around calm, happy, friendly people.

The older I get the more I understand why people who have their acts together are willing to pay a fee every month to a country club so that they have a social outlet for their family where the dregs of society are filtered out.

@Jennifer4Austin Terafab isn’t even over the same aquifer as lake Travis. This is just fear mongering

Could be Lake Travis if #TeraFab gets built in Central Texas. #TXLege x.com/WallStreetApes…

NEW: Martha Stewart raises $10 million in seed funding for her AI startup.

Lumping in Christianity with myths is disingenuous. Christianity is the foundation for every moral, political and legal system the West is built on. Would be very unlikely for a myth to have that kind of impact. Also, Christianity is not about expanding the range and depth of human experience. It’s a disservice to people to lead them to believe that.

I gave a talk last week that I was nervous to give to 80 people, because it's weird / about meaning of life / who am I to opine? but then a bunch of those people told me I should share it more broadly. "The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces."

Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI wsj.com/opinion/habits…

@antoniogm Devastating or liberating?

I had to buy a replacement air filter recently, and the contrast between what I have AI do and having to go to Amazon, look up old orders, make sure to order the right kind, was stark. Felt like banging rocks together. The flippening that's coming when everyone starts using AI agentically to do things in the world, vs. the old world of clicking around siloed websites, apps and forms, is still in the future...but when it comes it'll be swift and devastating.

@erenbali @KyleVansice

Who is building an AI agent that can pull permit / zoning rules by address (including city/county/state restrictions) and answer questions. If nobody has done thus it’s a $$$$ opportunity

@ecommerceshares Europe and Apple

Why has Europe decided to completely stay out of artificial intelligence race? Serious question. They’re not even trying. I really don’t get it.

@DKThomp Having kids is the ultimate long game and our society is short game oriented

I agree with Morgan. The “low fertility is about modern uncertainty” argument, the “nobody has kids bc it’s too unaffordable” argument, and the viral Connor Leahy video about “how much do you have to abuse a mammal to make it stop procreating” all get some things half-right, but they all assume that bc declining fertility is Bad, its causes must also be All Bad. But in the long run, economic growth has pushed fertility toward the replacement rate in practically every country on the planet. Modern industrial affluence has done a bunch of things at once (more female education, more individualism, less farming, less need for child labor, more access to contraception, cost disease, etc) but basically material progress turned children into a high-cost choice, and almost everything flows from that. As children become just another choice among other adult choices, questions about affordability and uncertainty are ruled in, so to speak. You can ask questions like “can we afford 1? 2? 3?” or “are we sure we’ll make enough in 15 years to support another mouth to feed?” These are not easy questions for couples. They are emotional and even painful. But in the grand sweep of history, I think they are questions of privilege, because they really are choices.

@JLopas When are we deregulating the Austin power market

We see tons of utility bills. It's shocking how many people are paying way above market - especially on older rates that slowly adjust upward without people noticing. A great study on this subject👇

@MattWalshBlog As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways - Isaiah 55:5

I'm a lot more open to the possibility of aliens than many people here, but the idea that anything related to aliens or UFOs could have "Bible-changing" implications is totally ridiculous. There is no reason why it should shake anyone's faith to find out that God created other lifeforms on other planets out there in the vast cosmos. There are like a hundred billion galaxies. My faith does not demand that I assume they're all completely empty.

@justalexoki By starting with the correct framing… The physical world is our opportunity and mission field, the spiritual world is our enemy.

how do i teach my kid that the world is our enemy without ruining his life

@TheHustleCritic It’s the sermon on the mount “lustful heart” combined with Ezekiel 36:26 - “I will take your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh”

The solution to a porn addiction is not behavior management like website blockers and giving your wife access to your phone. It’s self ownership.

@realBigBrainAI @jack So what happens when you’ve rebuilt your entire company on an infrastructure in which you have no price control of the inputs?

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Block, on why treating AI as a "copilot" is a losing strategy: @jack argues that most companies are approaching AI in a way that will make it nearly impossible for them to survive. "I think most of the industry is thinking about AI as like a co-pilot, as something that is augmented onto, rather than like how do you just rebuild our whole company with this as the core." His concern is that bolting AI onto existing structures produces companies that look indistinguishable from each other, and from the AI labs themselves. "If it doesn't make sense for your business to do that and you end up being or looking very similar or rhyming too closely with the frontier labs, then I think it's going to be very, very challenging to differentiate and survive." This thinking has been driving his decisions since early 2024, when these tools "really came to bear." That's when his team began building Goose, an agent coding harness, as part of a broader effort to rebuild around AI rather than layer it on top. The core insight? Speeding up old workflows with AI is a short-term gain every competitor will match. Real differentiation comes from rebuilding the company itself around intelligence.