Arnav Chauhan

@DStrachman I would love to be there!

Excited to announce our keynotes for our 1517 Summit in June -- all will be speaking about their view of the next 10 years and how to get started building today! - Thomas Sohmers (Positron AI/Thiel Fellow): Started building as a teenager, became a Thiel Fellow at 16, founded Positron (one of the fastest growing AI companies) just three years ago. - Roya Amani-Naieni (Trilobio/776 Fellow): Joined bio labs as a teenager and received one of our first R&D science angel checks through 1517. She's selling robots to make the future of biology brighter! - Hooman Reza Nezhad (Solcoa/Thiel Fellow): Started building in his basement as a teen, received a 1517 Medici grant to move his work forward, launched Solcoa which turns magnet waste into high-purity metals. If you're a teen, student, dropout or wily maker/scientist, DM me for an invite.

What I imagine Day 1 at AWS looked like for some intern a few summers ago: “Welcome! You’ll be spending your internship working on the AWS console mobile version because there are soooo many users that want to provision resources and run CLI commands from their phone” In unrelated news, I made an EC2 distribution while at the gym yesterday. Very convenient 👍

My coworkers and I have noticed those who are top players in videos games tend to be cracked engineers. If you’re one of them, I want to hire you. Come build in SF with me, we’re building something incredible at @vitalize_care

@rushilkukreja Hits deep man

Usually, we think of H2O as water, ice, or water vapor. But the most interesting physics happens when it's none of those, where there's no longer any difference between liquid and gas. At this critical point, a quantity known as the "correlation length" of water diverges, which means H2O molecules that normally would only affect their immediate neighbors become statistically linked across the entire glass. Fundamentally, at a critical point, the system loses its characteristic scale. A life transition feels the same way. A career change, a move, a new relationship, or in my case, going from high school to college. In high school, my life has had characteristic scales too, like the social graph of TJ or the radius of places I'd drive to. But entering college, all of those scales collapse. A single conversation at orientation could become a decades-long friendship, or absolutely nothing. A choice of which eating club to join ripples outwards in ways that are currently impossible to predict. I'll temporarily be a system where influence has no characteristic length because everything is correlated with everything. Maybe that's what keeps life so interesting.

@bneyshabur @PerrinMyerson

We are looking for someone with high agency and product vision to help shape our first product from the ground up! If you are excited about Mirendil’s vision (checkout our website), please apply/reach out. Referrals welcome. I would also love to hear what you think we should build toward!

Very fun team to work with!

I’ve been thinking about this a bit. 3 points: 1. Reinvent the “company intranet”: only accessible through your vpn, device, login, wtv but is a central space for everything in your company that is only for internal ppl with plugins to all the services that you need for dashboards/docs/slides that are navigable with agents 2. With these models getting better, you don’t have to jump between Sheets and Forms and Slack and ____ service to organize data, it could just all be in the company intranet. You don’t have something? That’s fine, just prompt it into existence and make the same service but native to your company and usecase. 3. As more people start making “company brains”, they need a place to put the home for them that isn’t Claude Code in the terminal. What if it’s locked to ppl in your company with a nice ui in the intranet?

when everyone in a company is shipping internal dashboards/docs/slides via claude. what is the best way to deploy and share an internal url within an organization? e.g. the internal vercel or internal supabase

@cory Tons of fun this summer :)

launching a new experiment: Rising Frosh the summer before my freshman year at UIUC... I was lucky to meet other builders before college even started. some became lifelong friends who also went off to start billion+ dollar companies. if you are a rising frosh this fall and building stuff @ reply or DM

@pitdesi no way we're in the same indian store groupchat lol

@PerrinMyerson Larp

ceramics!

@sampadanepal Something something finding a gap in the market

Mom said it was my turn to post about starlink on @united 🤯

@rishiaparikh @cory Baller over here

@cory I know exactly who this is... Arnav's meetup was lit Can't go wrong with either so just look into club quality/campus life/campus itself If you are looking for a roommate text me, my close friend is cs + philosophy

UT or UIUC?

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

@shubhampatilsd beast

this friday, i biked 137 miles from san diego to north los angeles on a $80 bike i bought off craigslist no prior training or prep. my best use of free will so far

@jstwng how do i cop me one of these

@lou_jug Playing with fire

new side quest: reversing my lactose intolerance Saw enough health influencers call it a skill issue so I started microdosing Parmesan to try to restore my ability to produce lactase Go figure, 3 days in, not a single symptom. This could get interesting

@vikvang1 Raycast - the people’s favorite Warp - terminal Shottr - screenshots. Worth the lifetime license imo Alt-Tab - window management (copied windows alt-tab ) Rectangle - also window management Stats - cpu/gpu/ram utilization in menu bar

new laptop for work what are go-to tools and apps I download first? any ADEs/IDEs that come to mind?

@BiscottoAnthon1 Good stuff man! I remember v1 haha :)

Idea born in the gym Inspired in SF Design and iterated in Sydney Now Manufactured in Shenzhen 50+ beta testers 800 units pre/ordered Sometimes you need to think about how far you have come…

@hyusapx hella cute man

just solved this! courier: a mailto redirector! try it out below, no install needed.