Jared Morgenstern

@travisk rocket emoji!

10 years ago. vimeo.com/153905859

Hey @googlecalendar , in the age of AI, please let us search time zones by city or abbreviation? This is your easiest to improve interface!

PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter. Every feature, setting, UI, element should fight to exist. At Nest, we had one rule: If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship. You had to tell us the why. The reason a real person would care. That one rule killed dozens of features.

@0x49fa98 Hide your kids hide your wives

@BillAckman @elonmusk where's the full clip - what does he say after.... super curious

If @elonmusk can bring sight to the blind, it will outdo every one of his near-miraculous achievements to date. With all of the ‘bad news’ that circulates to drive your attention, it is important to be reminded that we have so much more to be optimistic about.

"Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 7 AM"

@ChristianHeiens @grok can you fact check

Here's what Virginia Democrats have introduced so far. This list is truly insane: >Bans future attempts to clean up voter rolls (HB111) >Makes it illegal for state agencies distributing federal dollars to NGOs to investigate whether they're engaged in fraud (HB1369) >Makes it illegal to hand-count ballots (HB968) >Allows mail-in ballots to be counted one week after election day (HB773) >Allows for absentee ballots to be received and counted for three days after election day (HB82) >Gerrymanders the state with a 10-1 or 9-2 Democrat Congressional map (HJ4) >Creates a state-level equivalent of the VRA (HB967) >Eliminates the requirement that large last-minute campaign contributions have to be publicly reported at least 24 hours before election day (HB1348) >Removes the State Board of Elections' ability to dispatch law enforcement officers to collect vote tallies from a locality that refuses to publish them (HB1321) >Joins the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact for allocating Virginia's electoral college votes in presidential elections (HB965) >Automatic restoration of voting rights for felons after they're released from prison and the mentally handicapped (HB964, HB963, & HB1014) >Allows for votes to be cast "electronically through the internet" (HB493) >Public funding of political campaigns at the local level (HB162) >Abolishes all mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies (HB863) >Makes it harder for judges to deny bail, even in the case of things like aggravated assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking (HB357) >Gives convicted murderers, rapists, and terrorists a chance to get out of prison early (HB853) >Drastically reduces the criminal penalty for robbery (HB244) >Bars prosecutors from mentioning a criminal's prior convictions during the guilt phase of a trial, even if it's for the same crime (HB1070) >Transfers the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety's purview to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (SB21) >Reduces the amount of time that the Commonwealth can compel a convicted criminal to pay court fees from 60 years to 10 (SB180) >Taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries (HB1245) >Bans most discretionary state contracting under $100K from going to businesses owned by White men and allows state agencies to award contracts to women or minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business owned by a White man (HB61) >Punishes VMI for adopting an anti-DEI stance (HB1374 & HB22) >Abolishes all Confederate-themed license plates (HB1344) >Eliminates the tax-exempt status for all Confederate history groups (HB167) >Renames Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples Day." (HB858) >Makes it illegal to approach within 8ft of somebody within 40 feet of an abortion clinic (SB137) >Enshrines a Leftist narrative about January 6 and teaches it in public schools (HB333) >Allows localities to adopt rent control measures (HB1177) >Increases the sales tax in Northern Virginia, adds an additional sales tax for home deliveries, raises the car tax for electric vehicles, and imposes new sales taxes for streaming services, concerts, gym memberships, nail salons, barber shops, tanning beds, tatoo parlors, dry cleaners, shoe repairs, carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, and housekeeping work for homes, swimming pool maintenance, travel agencies, and shipping services (SB730, HB1179, HB900 & HB978) >Creates a new tourism tax on event entrance fees (HB550) >Raises the hotel tax in Arlington (HB524) >Imposes a new 7.75% tax on incomes over $1 Million (HB1074) >Creates two new tax brackets, one over $600K at 8% and another over $1 Million at 10% (HB979) >Imposes a 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes (HB378) >Allows every locality to raise the state sales tax by 1% (HB334 & SB66) >Raises the sales tax for Stafford County (HB1000) >Rounds up all state and local taxes by the nearest 5-cent increment (HB954) >Allows localities to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers (HB881) >Imposes a new personal property tax on electric-powered lawn equipment (HB557) >Limits the ability to use self-driving or autonomous vehicles (HB1124) >Allows state and local government to implement traffic and speed cameras (HB1330 & HB994) >Puts speed cameras on state highways (HB1220) >Requiring a license to buy a firearm (HB1359) >"Assault weapons" ban (HB217) >Strips gun rights from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor "hate crime" (HB1015) >Making it illegal to shoot a firearm on lot sizes less than 5 acres (HB926) >Expands "gun-free zones" (HB626) >Shrinks concealed-carry reciprocity with other states (HB24) >Holds firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths (HB21 & SB27) >Imposes an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition (HB1094) >Imposes a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors (HB207) >Drastically raises the physical requirements to operate a firearms store (HB907) >Makes it harder to obtain a concealed carry permit (HB916) >Creates a new taxpayer-funded state propaganda "center" for the sole purpose of promoting gun control (HB969) >Ends qualified immunity for police (HB 1314) >Targets ICE by banning the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers (HB7) >Makes ICE agents liable for civil lawsuits filed by illegal aliens (HB1314) >Prohibits ICE from arresting illegal migrants outside of courthouses (HB1265) >Establishes a state propaganda commission to publicize the supposed negative impacts of ICE raids in Virginia (HB1264) >Creates a state-mandated playbook for how schools must respond to ICE showing up on their campus and bans school employees from assisting ICE (HB1260) >Unionizes government employees and gives them collective bargaining rights (HB1263) >Unlimited taxpayer-funded home purchases for government employees (HB164) >Preferential hiring in State government for Federal employees laid off by DOGE (HB494) >Defers property taxes for Federal employees during shutdowns (HB915) >Hikes Minimum Wage to $15/Hour (HB1) >Eliminates the minimum wage exemption for farm workers (HB20) >Mandates the hiring of a new bureaucratic position ("Career Coach") in every single public school (HB138) >Mandates "mental health screenings" for all public school students between 6th and 12th grade (HB355) >Drastically curtails home school and private school independence from the Virginia Department of Education (HB359) >Raises the salaries of school board chairs and vice-chairs (HB382) >Free public school education for illegal aliens (HB912) >Allows out-of-state Indian tribe members to receive in-state tuition (HB287) >Lets students graduate high school despite failing grades (SB147) >Eliminates nearly all academic benchmarks for college students to continue receiving financial aid (SB167) >Somali daycare fraud pilot program (HB259) >Expands the eminent domain powers of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (HB446) >Reclassifies Solar farms as an "agricultural operation", thus granting it protections under the Right to Farm law (HB1091) >More than triples financial penalties from the Department of Environmental Quality to comply with environmental regulations (HB1350) >Mandates all localities adopt an "environmental justice plan" (HB256) >Allocates $100 million in taxpayer funding for the production of "sustainable aviation fuel" (HB1230) >Eliminates the ability of a health insurance provider to charge a premium for smokers (HB220) >Adds a new insurance mandate to cover over-the-counter condoms (HB1182) >Mandates "unconscious racial bias" trainings for nurses to retain their license (SB22)

Coding with Claude + Ralph be like

a lil long weekend project: putting shoes in storage… I vibed a thing where I just snap a shoe then AI renders it & identifies info about it. Pokédex energy :) PS peep light mode & dark mode on assets 🌞🌑

@kevinrose @claudeai Thank you so much for doing this! I did the reverse of your advice, slowed it down, stopped it, lived it with my own project. PS: we met once on an epic Alcatraz tour with @dtrinh before an even more epic party.

TLDR: The magic of Compound Engineering in @claudeai Code... building a X/Twitter (interface) clone in 20 mins. A massive game changer for me. (watch at 2x)

The world will still have the equivalent of your top 24 Home Screen “apps”, even though their interfaces may change.

Hot take: if you’re not an engineer, don’t bother learning multi-agent development. It’s an interim technology that exists because of hallucinations, drift and small context windows. No way every person is gonna be CEO of 1000 agents and their subagents.

@bryan_johnson How do you know some of your effects aren’t just from being in a strong relationship with your new girlfriend

My magic mushroom longevity experiment found a metabolic reset button in the brain. We expected brain changes, but not a potential metabolic breakthrough. The discovery: my blood glucose control dramatically improved. + before: top 2% of population + after: top 0.2% of population + better than 99.75% of 18-25 yr olds + mean glucose dropped 8% + time above 125 mg/dL: zero min + variability dropped 11% This single session reduced my estimated HbA1c by 6.8% from 4.7% to 4.4%. Why does this matter? We treat diabetes and metabolic dysfunction with chronic daily medication (Metformin, Insulin, GLP-1s). This data suggests that a neuroplastic event might have downstream effects on the liver and pancreas that mimic or exceed these drugs. For context, taking Metformin daily takes 6 months to drop it 10-15%. This is a first in-human observation, with comparable pre-clinical evidence existing only in rodents.

@jonwu_ @JacobyBrandon was going to say same

@JacobyBrandon What about Zuck in the Google+ era

in my experience, if leadership calls a code red they've already lost

@adityaag Sold out everywhere

When a company releases something that is so obviously underwhelming then the natural question is: “Did no one at the company see how bad this is OR did no one have the courage to speak up?” I’m not sure which is worse.

@kevintwohy Wow!!!!! Great work, I found this independent of you and had a close friend suggest it for me!!!

Ready to play? Board is the first face-to-face game console that combines physical pieces with video game magic. It looks modern, feels magical, and plays like a game night should.

@schrockn Yesssssss

My new Waymo use case is singing along to musicals without shame.

@shaunmmaguire Brilliant- you are so smart! Another great nugget! Self applause! What a great conjecture using no data! Holds up nicely to most of your other missives.

Reminder The people with the most carefully curated public images Are almost always the people with the worst private lives

@adityaag @rsanghvi @southpkcommons Especially the subtle digs at each other and charming confidence! Miss y’all. Fun memory it triggered, Ruchi used to like the way I dressed for like 3 years and then one day she says - out of the blue - what happened to you, you used to dress nice!

@adityaag @rsanghvi @southpkcommons Great hearing you guys!!!!!

Most great companies are manifestations of their founder's personalities: their strengths...and their quirks. The best way to understand SPC is to understand @rsanghvi. The latest Minus One episode on all things @southpkcommons, founder traits, and our own -1 journey is out now. (01:15) The Journey of Founding SPC (05:33) The Importance of Constructive Conflict (15:51) Scaling and Leadership Insights (28:39) Embracing the Learning Journey (29:43) The Power of Storytelling in Startups (33:19) Balancing Optimism and Realism (49:13) Navigating the Complexities of Markets