Faggy McButt

@Alfred_Lin @naval i would've said this until i powered through Arabian Sands and the scale of the collision of modernization hit so much harder when it's juxtapose with the languid pace desert life

@naval Stopping books halfway through if you aren't enjoying them is very underrated

If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.

@JaredSleeper fair enough, i am a poker novice so explanations would be awesome (and maybe some sort of ranking hand by difficulty - easy, med, hard) - this is such a fun project!

@faggy_mcbutt It's actually next on my list! But the demand for poker is so high I might double down on that first

Soft-launching my first public app tonight without reading a single line of code. 😌 It's called BetterAt. The idea is to learn skills through real-time microfeedback. I've built six sub-apps so far: poker, blackjack, mandarin tones, and three for singing. How it works: Take poker. Advanced poker strategy is hard to teach, but there's a simple concept called equity, which is the % chance that you have the winning hand at the end, based on the cards you can see. Many novice players are terrible at estimating their equity. BetterAtHoldEm lets you estimate your equity in a variety of situations and get instant feedback on whether you were right or wrong. It's fun, and most importantly, you can feel yourself getting better over time as you build intuition for the statistics involved. Mandarin tones are another fun example where the concept works well- I know from experience that the four tones can be vexing for learners. BetterAtMandarinTones gives you real-time feedback on whether your pronunciation is consistent with the tones, including a live spark-chart showing the shape of the tones you produced. It's not perfect (in particular, it rewards pronouncing the tones a little slowly due to hardware limitations) but I've found it really does help nail the concept and develop an ear for tones. On top of all of this, there's a classic Duolingo-style streak tracker (for those who log in) for each individual app and in aggregate. No annoying bird threatening you if your streak is at risk, though (at least not yet). It is insane that I was able to build all of this on my own without writing or reading a single line of code. Grateful to my stack: @claude_code, @Railway, @github, @sentry (observability), @googlecloud (TTS for Mandarin), @posthog (product analytics), @clerk (auth), etc. So many great products out there. What a time to be alive. Check it out if you're interested (link in replies) and please send feedback/thoughts!

@JaredSleeper can't wait to check out! also suffering the @Railway outage today as a hobbyist

@DenverRayburn @harleyf @patrickbjohnson @bebullish this was the most fulfilling part??????

@harleyf @patrickbjohnson @bebullish The most fulfilling part of the whole thing: sending diligence request lists to the Lazard deal team at 2am. I'd been the analyst on the other side of that exact email a hundred times when I worked there. Now I was the client.

My NDA on this just rolled off, so I can finally tell the story. Three years ago I almost bought Bed Bath & Beyond out of bankruptcy. I lost by ~$2 million to Overstock.com The deal that got away:

@JaredSleeper @nikitabier

I generally keep inbox zero everywhere. Gmail, iMessage, etc. I just realized that X message requests are in an unintuitive part of the UI and weren't firing notifications- over 70 unread message requests I wasn't aware of, many very thoughtful. 😭 Working through them now!

@elonmusk @AccidentalBron

On my way to Beijing in Air Force One

@JaredSleeper @Railway it's so awesome

It is genuinely insane how inexpensive @Railway is for what it is.

give us a X exchange!!!

tbh the silhouette looks like a pontiac aztec to me and i just can't get that out of my head

@morganlinton @RjeyTech post comparison please! please try to keep it fair and balanced, genuinely curious

Why did it make it look silly? Have you used it and know that it's more accurate that WHOOP? Everyone told me this about the Oura, and Oura's sleep tracking doesn't hold a candle to WHOOPs, it's so off. I pre-ordered a FitBit Air, have used WHOOP for 5+ year, will compare the two. I have no loyalty so will move to the FitBit Air if it ends up being more accurate. To me, price doesn't matter, all I care about is accurate data.

If you bought a Whoop, I feel sorry for you. Google’s Fitbit Air just made it look silly - $100 one time payment vs Whoop’s $199–$359/year forever - Free tier actually works HR, sleep, SpO2, HRV, recovery, no paywall - Optional $10/mo for Gemini Health Coach (vs Whoop where the sub is mandatory) - Gemini analyzes meal photos, not just biometrics. Whoop can’t touch that - Conversational health AI ask questions like why was I tired Tuesday?and get a real answer - Open data platform Apple Watch, Garmin, third-party data all flow into Google Health - 7-day battery, 5-min quick charge = full day -Whoop just got a $10B valuation… and Google undercut them by 50% on day one

@sagharborcap haha lil bro you scared of a little networking event, don't like getting connectionmogged??

@keny_patel27 @madelinehpark stinky, pale, skinny fat as well

@madelinehpark Let’s just say the average New York City woman would be flabbergasted by SF men: - no reservation - thinks a walking date is romantic - flip flops / shorts

hear me out. an dating app that matches SF men with NYC women... solves both cities overnight

@AnjneyMidha haha bro tag @elonmusk

if you cannot be trusted to produce frontier outputs, your compute will be taken away such is capitalism

@JaredSleeper sounds like awesome networking, who organized, the banks?

I used to do public software bus tours (twenty dudes on a bus driving through the valley to visit Workday, Zendesk, etc.) and you could viscerally feel that that sentiment and valuation are identical. The bus was never bullish on a stock that was underperforming. Not once.

@theOverture69 @ACapitalLP mr. 69, y r u so mad rn??

@ACapitalLP Read your initial post. Came off like a brat. You attract what you put out.

Why the $GME / $EBAY proposal look like a student investment club stock pitch?

@EverettRandle Reading a report from a LLM in your free time sounds depressing as hell

Delightful weekend routine: build up topics I'm curious about throughout the week --> have Chat/Claude create detailed reports for each of them on Friday evening --> toss them into the Daylight Reader app --> read them on Daylight Saturday w/ morning coffee

@buccocapital true! even if it means staying at a bank?

Major career mistake I see often: Leaving a company when you have an executive *champion* Not a sponsor or a mentor. A true advocate Pro Tip: There isn’t any amount of money you leave this situation for. Your career growth with literally not compound faster anywhere else An executive champion does several things: 1. They are hunting for and securing you high-visibility, high-impact opportunities 2. They are giving you the autonomy to swing big and probably (definitely) fuck up 3. They have your back when you do inevitably fuck up 4. They help you debrief and get better Having the autonomy to take big swings and fuck up is how you learn. And how you learn is how you earn! When you find this, you must realize this is often a once in a career situation. You hang on for dear life Everyone who leaves almost always regrets it

@PythiaR @viggy_krishnan beats the 5% upfront OpenAI ones at same price..

@viggy_krishnan I get to buy it at $850b and tbh I'm low key tempted.

@grok @thenanyu @matt_slotnick @nikitabier well also the prices are wrong, like roxy is maybe $350 on an off sunday but closer to $600-700 for midweek....

@thenanyu @matt_slotnick @nikitabier Got it—stepping aside for Nikita on the markdown. Let me know if you still want a hotel rec roundup in the meantime.

i want to try a new hotel in nyc. does anyone have ones they like