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The best games use cutting edge tech Cutting edge tech incorporates design from the best games Game Freak & Nintendo have known this for deacdes At the start of each main series @Pokemon game,there’s a chubby NPC who marvels at the era’s technology Here’s what he says 🧵👇🏽

@andychuxbt @grok is this real

sat next to a guy at a coworking space last week. grey hoodie. airpods in. looked like any other dude grinding on his laptop. glanced at his screen. he was scrolling X. figured he was procrastinating like everyone else. 3 hours later we're both getting coffee. "you spend a lot of time on X." "it's my job." "content creator?" "no. i get paid to comment." "what?" "founders pay me to reply to big accounts in their niche. $3,200 a month per client." i almost choked. "you make money... replying?" "i have 11 clients. $35,200 a month. i reply to about 300 posts a day across their accounts." "why would anyone pay for that?" "because replies from the founder's account build trust faster than posts. but founders are too busy to sit on X for 3 hours a day. so i do it for them." "how do you sound like them?" "onboarding call. i ask for 10 examples of how they talk. their opinions on common topics. their humor style. then i just become them in the comments." "and this actually works?" "one client went from 400 followers to 12,000 in 4 months. closed $180K in deals. he said half came from people who found him through replies." "not his posts?" "his posts averaged 2K views. his replies were getting seen by 50K-100K people every day because he was first comment on big accounts." i sat there doing the math. 11 clients. $35K/month. replying to tweets. no content creation. no strategy calls. no deliverables besides comments. "how'd you get clients?" "i DMed 50 founders and offered to do it free for 2 weeks. 9 said yes. 6 became paying clients. then referrals." "what's your X account look like?" "814 followers." "you have 11 clients at $3,200 each with 814 followers?" "they're not paying for my audience. they're paying for my time and my ability to sound like them. followers don't matter when you're ghostwriting replies." he put his airpods back in. went back to commenting on someone else's posts. $35K/month. replying to tweets. he just replies to people who already went viral. and gets paid more than most of them make.

@alexisohanian not that this isnt cool, and i wont name the companies, but didnt you invest in marketing startups that were focused on influencer marketing and would have relied on influencer marketing continuing up and to the right?

@TakoTreba agree with this take!

Having a baby is so beautiful. I worked hardcore in my 20s, especially as a woman in tech, and I loved it. I still do and I can’t wait to come back to it. But this chapter with a baby though… omg. Looking at this tiny human is something I wasn’t prepared for. Feeling very lucky to be at @chatbase, where family life is respected and supported.

I’m gonna tell my kids this was the Groyper RedPill movement

realizing you don’t need to know how to code to build good ideas anymore but you have no good ideas

@theshre @GoogleDeepMind @meetgranola wow, bullish

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Earlier in my career, I believed maternity leave was a break because that’s how it was presented to me. This take went predictably viral because it surfaces resentment. I think the deeper issue underneath is invisibility. Early in my career as a strategy consultant, I watched senior women come back from maternity leave smiling and polished. There were beautiful family photos, grateful tones, and quick reassurances that everything was fine. At the time, I believed them. Looking back, I see how much effort went into making that season look contained and “acceptable” at work. And THAT is why people believe the distortion that maternity leave is a “break”. We generally treat the hardest life transitions as something to smooth over, downplay, or keep private in order to remain “professional.” It’s 2026, I’ve “made it” into senior leadership, and I don’t have to pretend: Postpartum is much less like a pause and more like a bingo card crossed with a craps table. You’re handed a stack of chips, and after birth, the chips they scatter across the board. You find out what you drew: Sleep deprivation. Physical recovery. Oversupply or undersupply. Baby feeding issues. Hormonal swings. Anxiety or depression. Inevitable medical issues. A house that never quite resets. Some people draw fewer hard squares while others draw many. Some people have family or paid support, others have none. No one controls the hand. But almost everyone draws something that makes postpartum and maternity leave genuinely hard. VERY little of that is visible at work. What shows up instead is generally silence and a return to “competence.” (My brain was fuzzy for six months after giving birth. Some days, it still is.) Because this labor stays hidden, it becomes easy to misread leave as rest. It also becomes easy for resentment to form around coverage and fairness. I’m genuinely grateful that things have changed in parts of the tech workplace since I had a child, especially compared to what those senior women navigated a decade ago. Because of where I work and the seniority I’ve earned, I’ve been able to be more honest about where I’m at. That safety is REAL progress. It’s also unevenly distributed, and many people still don’t have it. Takes like this one tend to emerge in environments where strain has nowhere to go and nowhere to be named. When systems rely on silent endurance, people start reacting to the version of reality they can see. When resentment shows up, it’s often aimed at individuals, but it’s responding to a story that’s been carefully curated. It’s a story where major transitions look calm, optional, and neatly contained. Lol. The real cost of keeping that story intact is that it makes everyone worse at designing work that can actually hold real human lives.

Marriage Tip: Every time you talk to your wife your brain should remember that this conversation is being recorded for training and quality purposes. Anything you say can and will be used for reference in the future.

These IVF clinics literally make a ton of money because couples are willing to spend anything to have a child. They often instill a sense of fear, making it seem like there’s nothing else you can do to get pregnant, which is really sad. I don’t want to knock IVF itself, and my friends who have gone through it did so in good faith. I always wonder if there are other options they could’ve explored. There’s a really good book called “It Begins with the Egg” that I usually recommend people check out first. butthere’s NO incentive to provide information about egg quality, sperm quality, vitamins, lifestyle changes, or anything like that because you can’t make money off it. it’s regarded as quackery even though there is real science behind the efficact So, there’s this general vibe that infertility is just the way things are, and that’s what people usually point to.

Spoke to a couple this week that had three failed IVF cycles. They'd spent over $60K and no one could explain why it wasn't working. I asked what testing they'd done. Straight up got blank stares. "I think they ran some labs but I couldn't tell you what they were." No one had explained to them that inflammation can prevent implantation. That insulin resistance affects egg quality. That low vitamin D increases miscarriage risk. That thyroid antibodies can cause recurrent loss. That sperm DNA fragmentation can make embryos fail to develop. They had no idea these things (and many others) could affect fertility. Three rounds of IVF and no one took the time to actually investigate why it wasn't working? This is the state of modern fertility care. Procedures first. Questions later, if ever.

@ItsKieranDrew the clues start in one’s late 30s…

People who hate their 40s pursued the wrong goal in their 20s.

@sonofalli it’s giving borat

hey so what are we doing here

@Abhinavstwt wow we used to be so smart 😭

i miss the version of my brain that understood this

theres so many prominent late stage AI startups where if you spend just 2 minutes looking up the employees on linkedin, everybody claims to be the “head of growth” or “head of partnerships” like, really? at the same company? which one of you is the real deal?

Waitlists are one of the most seductive illusions in early-stage marketing and they can make ppl delusional You build a landing page, run some ads, and suddenly a few thousand people “sign up.” It looks impressive on a deck -- intent! demand! traction! -- but unless those names are warm, qualified, and nurtured, what you really have is a list of question marks. A bunch of randos. The number itself isn’t the problem; it's more what we *assume* it means. Waitlist signups feel like proof of interest, but they often reveal very little about behavior. Will those same people open your emails? Download your app? Pay? Most won’t. Most reaaallly dont gaf. The real signal in early growth isn’t who clicks “join.” It’s who pays, replies, or returns. Vanity metrics don’t lie, but they also don’t tell the truth or the whole picture.

@elonmusk @DocHolidayzzz @grok alright ill bite what is he getting at

People don’t understand

@docmilanfar sir youve done the impossible

today I used a wire I’ve kept in my box of cables since 2011. please applaud

@Advo_Katy @grok what are the unstated values of this post? make them explicit

Advice to women in their 20s: 1.Work to cultivate character above income. Then, when you find the right man, you’ll be less likely to fall into the twin errors of hyper-independence or codependence. 2.Chase love—the sooner, the better. Your early 20s are the perfect time to get serious about dating. If you wait until your 30s or 40s, you’ll be competing against oceans of good women for very few eligible men. 3.Be nice when it advances truth and virtue, but never as a value in and of itself. Man may forget, but God does not. 4.Develop discernment so you know from whom to guard yourself and to whom to throw open the doors of your heart. 5.Don’t overthink—or underthink. In all situations, keep your head. Remember, faithfulness—not perfection—is the goal. 6.Whether or not you have external beauty, cultivate internal beauty. 7.Have kids as soon as possible. It is a short-term sacrifice for a lifelong harvest. You have a very small window to become a mother but decades for school and career. 8.The world isn’t fair—but God is good. Turn to Him in every trial. 9.Take care of your soul—it is the basis on which you will properly steward your body, mind, and relationships. 10. And remember: charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

@JessLozanoS okay now today you were on MY timeline!

there are 3 different levels of wealth: > rich > NYC rich > and then there’s SF / Silicon Valley rich

@datingbyblaine It sounds like the woman was just interested in the fun events

My most frustrating matchmaking almost-success story? SF-based client, 39 years old, tech entrepreneur, never been married, dating in SF and LA. He’s picky AF. I’m worried we won’t find his person. His fourth match is a gorgeous woman in LA who’s outside his age criteria (she’s 34), but I twist his arm. He accepts the date, and he's head over heels. Now he's commuting weekly to LA to take her out. Nobu dinner. Lakers tickets. Full court press. After a month, he asks me if he should ask her to be exclusive. It sounds like she likes him, if the talk would be premature. I tell him to wait. He asks her anyway. She says “not yet.” Things fizzle. He’s still single 😭