Alex Murphy

@amphi73 @paulg @grok Groks notes Miss some important points. 1. The toxicity of uber came from the founder, like x and musk 2. Dropbox has tried many different forms of marketing before the fun video

@paulg @grok Map each of these to real world examples.

Someone asked what advice founders ignore. That they: 1. Should change their name. 2. Should launch fast. 3. Shouldn't treat fundraising as success. 4. Shouldn't assume they can raise because it's time to. 5. Should fire bad people quickly. 6. Shouldn't talk to acquirers.

Trump is suspending sanctions on Iran and Russia, which will put over $15 billion in their treasuries to help them fund the wars against us. It’s stunning. We have never ever seen this level of war incompetence in American history.

@OmriOrr @DrNeilStone I hate that top

Name a human invention that has saved more lives than vaccines

@bell00david @DrNeilStone I’m going with the wheel or the lever #TimeWins

@DrNeilStone Sewers. The wheel. Antibiotics. Internal combustion engines, the plough, combine harvesters, yokes….. Are you even aware of the trajectory of Western life expectancy over the past 3 centuries??? You know Earth is more than 60 years old? What a genuinely ridiculous question.

@garrytan Chipotle, on your birthday … questions

Ok bro I have some news for you

. @united every single flight starts with “we’re going to keep the crew seated” immediately followed by, or proceeded by we’re expecting a smooth flight. Doesn’t square. It’s not sometimes, it’s every single time.

@jack @blocks 10x more likely to be a bad outcome than a positive one. This sounds more like fear than victory. There are at least four founders in the 4k that will start a competitor. One or two of them will win. I bet those founders know how to use capital letters too.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus. It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her. ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her. Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable. I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

@paulg This is the hardest part to accept, but is completely correct.

Which in turn implies that this controversy will never be settled. There's big segment of the population who can't be convinced by any amount of evidence. So unless Trump and Noem stop lying, which they won't, there will always be people who believe them.

Initially I was surprised at people's ability to ignore evidence leading to conclusions they don't like, even with multiple videos of the scene. But then I remembered that 34% of Americans don't believe in evolution.

@paulg @JDVance What do you agree with? That everyone should be asked, or that he should have shot her?

@JDVance I agree, but that word salad is not the simple question. The simple question is simply: Should he have shot her?

Every congressional democrat and every democrat who's running for president should be asked a simple question: Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over? These people are going to try to arrest our law enforcement for doing their jobs. The least the media could do is ask them about it. x.com/i/status/20089…

@Robeno @GavinNewsom that they are there in the first place.

@GavinNewsom So they said. Do not come over htis line and they came over the line and non-lethal force was used. Your issue?

Trump’s America.

@trentjhughes Why does age matter to the vc when they expect an exit in two quarters anyway?

We are in 30+ VC conversations right now One hesitation that was voiced was that us being older (30s lol) and being exited founders may be a concern Most founders are dropping out of college to start stuff at age 20 Meanwhile we've collectively had 5 exits, built over $100M in revenue across businesses Do we still have the fire or work ethic is the concern Obviously they haven't seen us work before haha We are building for the long run with this one And I love a good chip on my shoulder Just watch

@theallinpod While medicating yourself to make a political statement is stupid, a pales in comparison to both the stupidity and harm done by extremely under-informed and ill-informed, thus near baseless, claims made by DJT and RFK.

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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

This American Dad’s beautifully articulate takedown of what’s happening is as powerful as it is informed “Is this greatness?’ He asks … and then answers

@acnewsitics I think he meant that he wanted to send some national guard troops to spread mulch.

Wow!!! Portland is a damn war zone!! Look at this!!

@KCMartinK @reedhastings Nope. We are losing recently educated people, the most well educated people, to go and start and build businesses elsewhere.

I've worked on H1-B politics for 30 years. Trump's $100k per year tax is a great solution. It will mean H1-B is used just for very high value jobs, which will mean no lottery needed, and more certainty for those jobs.

He's not wrong

@rgvrmdya @tbpn 30 years

BREAKING: The Deel Spy just testified in Irish court and is cooperating with Rippling. His affidavit is a crazy read. Covers how much he was paid, code words, and a whole lot more. Everything the spy alleges is below, apparently Deel told him it would be like James Bond: 🧵