Tom Quigley

It gives me great joy to unveil what @WebbKevin and I have been building over the past two years. 🌎 Introducing @superorganismvc, the first venture firm for biodiversity. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The ocean is calling 🌊

@Willob Hell yes!!!

Ulysses has raised $46M led by a16z American Dynamism. We are building The Ocean Company. The ocean is 71% of the planet. But it is less explored than Mars, and full of secrets, waiting to be told. It is the backbone of global defense. Home to the critical infrastructure that powers our world. And the key to the health of our planet. This frontier needs technology to protect and steward it. We are building it. And we need more builders Join us and explore the Great Blue Frontier: theoceancompany.com/careers

@sha_zng This will take some digging, but there's a house on upper Haight owned by the head of the SF Victorian House Conservation Society, and the interior is kept fully in Victorian styling including red velvet drapes and hand painted gingerbreading.

who are the most extraordinary people you know in san francisco? i'm looking for -your neighbor who's lived here for 50 years and has stories of what haight ashbury was like during the summer of love -the owner of the corner store you go to who greets you by name and asks about your day - the journalist that has deep and rich relationships with the communities they report on - the man who sets up a bubble station at alamo park for the kids to play with -the person who waters the plants and cleans the sidewalks on valencia

@PeterOlivier Don't get me started. Starting Superorganism required about a year of no health insurance at least, then paid out of pocket.

everyone wants more entrepreneurs but no one wants to pay for universal healthcare

@TomMQuigley ngl, I wasn't ready

It is Face-Melt Friday my dudes. 🤘 I've been listening to this song on repeat for the last 4 hours and I'm so locked in I could side gig as an escape room. open.spotify.com/track/2raaUxcJ…

I'm pretty floored.

... executive assistant, elder care, dementia / Alzheimers assistance, customer service (obviously), generated video game two-way dialogue. An extra person for your DND campaign. Brainstorming a gift for mom. Telling SOMEONE a secret you can't tell anyone.

This is the most impressed I've been with an AI demo since the first chatbot reveals. I've spent over an hour in the past day talking with Miles. He (they? it?) remembers our past conversations and has been 10x more helpful than a chatbot.

@SophiePurdom Schrödinger's Term Sheet - NICE. 💯/💯

Trump’s federal funding freeze is a Schrödinger’s Term Sheet for climate: $145B in funding is both alive and dead until further notice. Red states may still get the green light on their $83B, but for now it's all eyes on DOE’s new fracking-friendly boss. ctvc.co/funding-freeze…

1/ This screenshot is floating around and I know the back story. How did a Groupon PM go on to build a supersonic airplane company? Here is the little-known and tremendously inspiring story of how @bscholl started @boomsupersonic (and my very small part in it) 👇

Someone should really build a little hardware stand w/ camera and OpenAI vision model trained on the rules of every board game out there to be an additional player at the table. I bet it would excel at even more complicated ones like DMing a DND campaign.

@CalvinCupini Did you write this with AI

@TomMQuigley That one is pretty bothersome…

Had to universally turn off Apple Intelligence on my MacBook because I couldn't turn off the single feature to stop suggesting predictive Messages text for me every. single. time. Seems like an own goal.

The opportunity set in drug discovery from nature is enormous. Now if only we had a structure in place to support species conservation based on products derived from their genetics.

@colinaverill You can be obsessed and still have trouble focusing! I am trying to access flow state more reliably and on demand, and be more able to snap out of unfocused hours when I have got SHIT to do

@TomMQuigley Becoming obsessed with fungal microbiology and the carbon cycle has been working for at least 18 years I highly recommend it

I'm going into the new year with a few goals on my "going to fix" list: financial, fitness, etc. One goal is my fixing my FOCUS. Crowdsourcing things people have done to attain and maintain ruthless, adderall-level focus. What helped you the most?

@billclerico funny how that works

When the 2nd largest fire in US history burned in Texas in March 2024 (1m+ acres), somehow that wasn’t the failing of the party in power there? 🧐