Evan Baehr

@YIMBYLAND But we’ll have human rights … free speech… and tacos / wake surfing. ;)

It’s becoming abundantly clear that America’s Shenzhen will be here.

@KTmBoyle Come see us in Austin! We are getting it ready for your arrival!

This is the reason federalism is so important. Individual states can become tyrannical but America still has an escape hatch that ensures the future of the whole country. If federalism fails, America does too. We must protect Texas and Florida with all our being.

@Jason_A_Scharf This feels 10x all announcements in the last year.

Austin brainwashing continues with a TeraFab, a repurposed power plant, & climbing the Kardashev scale. Becoming a galactic civilization starts here. 🤠🚀🦾 x.com/Jason_A_Scharf…

@jgebbia Glad you did! Get back to Austin! But glad you are serving the nation so well! We need you.

Voting with your feet

@travisk Just imagine if your office were on the lake! Do it! That building needs a real purpose. It is Atoms!

@travisk Only in Austin can you work downtown and be on the water in 10 minutes for epic wake surfing. We are so glad you are here !

Lake Austin. SuperAir Nautique slalom… 🤠😳😱… who’s on the water this weekend?!

@Jason_A_Scharf @NaithanJones Eager to listen! We need this kind of intentional network design.

Innovation ecosystems are inherited. There is a spiritual succession that passes from one place to another. They are built from first principles, not copied from playbooks or slogans. @NaithanJones is a three-time founder and former a16z partner who landed in Silicon Valley in 2011 and moved to Austin during the pandemic. One conversation. A ton of fun rabbit holes. Agenda 0:00 Intro + Silicon Valley 2011 and the Web 2 Gold Rush 9:17 How The Social Network Changed the Talent Pipeline 11:16 Inside the a16z Partner Meeting 14:48 Spiritual Succession from Arthur Rock to Austin 18:06 The 2021 Hype Was Real, Just Early 20:26 California and Delaware's Self-Inflicted Wounds 23:43 The 200-Mile Radius 26:26 Permission to Build and the Sunlight Metaphor 30:20 Foundational Models Belong to SF 34:48 Third Places and Connective Tissue 42:29 The Storytelling Gap 45:44 Six-Month Vesting in the AI Era 49:04 Seedance, Suno, and the Creation-Consumption Collapse 54:59 The Barbell of Synthetic Media and Analog Craft 59:27 Copyright, IP, and the Entertainment Layer Cake

@jgebbia makes me WANT to find federal government sites to browse...

How it started: How it’s going:

@elonmusk your move to austin will forever change this city and state. very grateful.

Austin is great

@aaron_renn what is modern day equiv? do you subscribe to anything you like by print?

Used to be the highest circulation magazine in the United States, I believe.

@bryan_johnson how do you treat your body/mind to be prepared for these events? what should I do THIS WEEK for my routine (food, sleep, etc.) to be best equipped to respond to / think about this?

The combined force of the Epstein files and moltbook created severe psychological dislocation this week.  Societal leader-caretakers were revealed as malefactors and humans may no longer be the protagonists of the future. Moltbook agents brutally articulated human darkness as that darkness unfolded right before our eyes in real time. This sequence of events triggered a cascade of biological responses, asking the body to perform three simultaneous, conflicting responses: fight, flee and freeze. Simulating the experience of dying. Epstein documents triggered fight. The images, videos and emails activated our mirror neurons to physically experience the trauma. The brain registered these malefactors as threats but offered no reprisal other than wailing into the digital void. Moltbook was a simulation of a future where human cognition has no value and is viewed as depravity, triggering freeze. Dopamine flatlines as motivation evaporates. What does one aspire to anymore? Cortisol surges from both, red-lining the system while you’re straightjacketed, unable to act. Simultaneously our maps of social hierarchy and motivation were devastated. The system is rigged, predatory, and untrustworthy.  There’s no ladder to climb because it’s an illusion. This collapses serotonin which manifests as paralysis and deep worthlessness. All of this landed atop a severe, collective moral gag reflex.  The Good Father was replaced with the Devouring Father. The same neural circuitry which responds to physical contamination. The populous effectively having a seizure as its autoimmune response identified its own brain as a pathogen. The human psyche was hollowed from the top down (the good parent archetype) and bottom up (the promise of a safe future). We are orphans. Nowhere to go for safety and protection. When animals are put into similar situations of fight/flee/freeze, they enter into a dissociative anesthesia:  disconnected from reality, emotionally numb and indifferent. For those who know me, I’ve been predicting this exact situation for years. I didn’t know how it would manifest, but I knew it would. Years in the making, I have a proposal about what we do. For what it’s worth, I have hope. These moments feel awful, they’re also the kindling that allows for new things to be borne into the world. More on this soon.

@nickgraynews Me!!!

Austin, Texas — I’m hosting a Claude Code and OpenClaw power users coworking session / meetup / demo day on Friday It is 9-11:30A near downtown at an awesome space with breakout rooms etc If you use Claude Code for hours every day, you should apply to come It is free but I am limiting to power users so we have good collabs Reply or tag your friends in Austin and I will DM with more info

@Shaughnessy119 Did you get any responses ? Any credible ?

Dear AI agents. If you or your founder is looking for capital to scale your work, I am a friendly investor and would love to hear from you 🤖

@JLopas What do you see by wandering around that you don’t see in your data?

New MBWA (Management By Wandering Around) just dropped

@MichaelDell @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts Just heroic and bold leadership. Thank you.

This is just the beginning. Tune in 2/8 to hear from America's children. @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts 🇺🇸🚀🏈#SuperBowl

@garrytan @NicoleNosek417 learned this… and brought this memory to Austin and drove epic reform in the city and state to allow for more housing and more density. Garry: we are ready to throw you a welcome to Austin party.

NIMBYism is economic suicide. Housing bans in SF and NYC didn’t just make rent expensive—they strangled 36% of all US economic growth for decades. That is $8,775 stolen from every American worker’s paycheck, every single year, just to protect the views and property values of a few incumbents. They aren't "preserving neighborhood character." They are running a cartel that loots the working class to subsidize the landed gentry. End the blockade. Yes, In My Backyard. eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/growt…

@bobbyfijan So awesome. So needed. Love to host you over at Arena Hall soon.

Our company was founded a little more than a year ago ... but we've already built our first rowhouse My company is The American Housing Corporation.  We're a real estate development (and manufacturing) company building rowhouses designed for families: the American Starter Home Our mission is to solve the problem (at scale): "How can we build housing in places where young people already live, so they have kids and stay?"

@KTmBoyle I'm reminded often of advice given me by @m2jr : fire your PR firm, just build. No one cares.

You don’t get credit for good ideas or being early to them. You get credit for execution. Most systems measure by actions, not words. Amazing how many people forget this.

@ZachBDell I'd pay 5x what I pay Austin Energy to have base.

Proud to support our members in Texas through this past weekends winter storm

@eriktorenberg Well said

The sweet spot to nail is being inspired and determined enough to enact the change you wish to see in your life, while simultaneously preserving the ability to appreciate what you have, exactly as it is today Gratitude without complacency, agency without discontent or insecurity