Ada Yeo

7 years ago i was at a low point in my life decided "fuck it" and moved to sf although i'd never been here, had no money, and knew only one person now i'm the happiest i've ever been finally got my green card today. don't believe the haters, the american dream is real 🇺🇸

Cheap stablecoin transactions continue to be one of the most important sources of large-scale value that crypto provides today. Excited to see @codexfx joining the arena as an L2 and thinking explicitly about synergy between itself and ethereum L1 from day one.

@neilparikh @RadicalVentures @ForerunnerVC @a16z @felicis @trailmixvc @joinsequel Congrats bro!!!! When are you going back to medical school? 😂

They said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. We tried anyways. Today we're launching Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, and announcing $93M in funding from @radicalventures @ForerunnerVC @a16z @felicis @trailmixvc @joinsequel and many more. We've had 50k people using it, with pretty transformative results. Here's my co-founder @danielreidcahn telling our story. Link to Ash below.

@catehall I don’t fully understand the psychology of it but that tracks. That’s why 2 of the 12 steps are: admitting that you are powerless over your addiction and then believing in a higher power.

in fact, believing that addiction can be conquered through the application of enough brute force of will is something that keeps many addicts in addiction much longer than they would be otherwise

@timhwang On the shortness of life - Seneca

what is the shortest, most powerful book ever written

@ste_bau if he wanted, he would

So my wife recently started going to my local gym's spin classes -- but there's a problem: The classes get booked up quick and there's limited bikes. These other women are super fast at getting their reservation in! But you know what they're not faster than? A GitHub action using Laravel Dusk that auto-reserves the latest seat as soon as it becomes available

@mollyfmielke Congrats ❤️

he dm’d me here :)

spotify should build a dating app that matches you with people based off music taste

@tomgriff_in In my opinion, a lot of false desires are actually from your mind ie “I NEED these chips at 3am to be happy” and your body is actually the one saying “no i’m actually full”

when people are told to “trust their intuition” or “the wisdom of their body”.. how do ppl differentiate this from a million other false signals or misaligned desires? if I tap into my body and it wants sugar, is that the wisdom of my body or an addictive impulse? if I want to binge Netflix all day is that wu wei flowing with the tao etc. or am I just being lazy without clear priorities? these are easy cases, but what’s the meta framework to think about this?

@dankuntz completely orthogonal

SF completely cooked my brain. Why am I constantly saying “semantically similar” when I could just be saying “similar”

@sjwhitmore Congrats Sam :)

hello world

@pk_iv Congrats bro

If you know me, it’s fitting that I’m marrying a women I met on the internet The world chose Julia for me. And I promise to choose her every day for the rest of my life. And no matter what happens, we’ll face it together, always and forever. 9/21/24 ❤️

@levelsio what happens when lawyers have outsized influencer on the product org

Official Google AI lead tells me to go here I go there I see this I close the tab

@mickeyxfriedman @flairAI_ This is so sick!

Introducing AI fashion Photoshoots on @flairAI_ you can now train fashion models on your clothing with incredible accuracy - texture, labels, logos, and more preserved with midjourney level quality 🔥 rt and comment to try this feature in beta. serving access codes today:)

@andy_murray time to switch to pickleball

Never even liked tennis anyway.

@philiprosedale @rrhoover There wasn’t much chatting on Chatroulette when I tried it out 😂

@rrhoover Translation so that you can video call someone in a different language is such a great example of a very positive use of AI. Imagine something this and free like Chatroulette or Omegle as a way to find common ground with strangers.

People underestimate how the world will change once language barriers are removed. Toby is a new app to speak in other languages on any video call (link below).

@TenreiroDaniel I think I read that in a sun tzu book once

@TenreiroDaniel when did this shitpost account become thirst traps

@davidmarcus love the nuance and how it was written in a way that democrats could get behind

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump. Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it. My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there. In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help. The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them. Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship. This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally. This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged. On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries. On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home. I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform. Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center. It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together. Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen. In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

@HDRetrovision great tweet. it’s crazy-making when people push an agenda that hurts literally the people they claim to help

whenever I meet anti-capitalists in sf who profess to be advocating for the poor, I wish I could show them this chart and say “capitalism and technological progress have brought billions of people out of extreme poverty and suffering over the last 200 years. ofc it’s not perfect, but it’s the best system we have for human flourishing. is this what you wish to stop?”