John Blake Knechtel

I'm building Big Head AI — a startup focused on children's learning — and I want to hear from parents and caregivers directly. How do you feel about AI and kids? Worried? Optimistic? Both? Takes 2 minutes. Your answers will shape what we build. tally.so/r/vGLrWg

@acoyne Wascally Wabbits.

Because they are frightened little rabbits.

@jefielding @jmj Paaaarty!

@jmj But after the money hits the account…

It’s easier to raise money for a pre-seed round than to get a job for many right now. Making a startup pitch deck with Claude is easier than writing your own resume. When people are deciding between applying for jobs or raising for a startup, many pick the startup. New world.

@swbarns @jefielding @jmj "Always this way," to quote Léon in The Professional.

@jefielding @jmj I’ve found that there are some very hard steps between making a deck and getting that wire transfer. Am I doing this wrong?

@totalmoiddeathh good job

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@taufiqzrahim @pmarca :)

@johnbknechtel @pmarca Yes exactly, he managed the brilliance in few words

You can’t write that fast if you’re sitting around introspecting.

@taufiqzrahim @pmarca 37,000 words vs 1,337 :)

@pmarca Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in two weeks in a rented home in Philadelphia.

@redroomrantings Think of it as an extra half-hour during which your cortisol has not yet spiked.

8pm start time noooo

@cselley Encore du madness.

God in heaven... tvanouvelles.ca/2026/05/21/fin…

@simple_as_grass Kafka: doesn’t give a shit about the internet.

Where would the great writers of the past be if they lived today? James Joyce: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN Fyodor Dostoevsky: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN Charles Bukowski: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN Whitman: chillin in da woods :D Ernest Hemingway: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN

@tie_wet @Zenpersuasion CYA. Legaleducation teaches that you can't over-define via endless sytac tical complexity enough to protect yourself. Clarity is the enemy!

@Zenpersuasion So question: Why does pretty much every single piece of legal writing prior to 1960 break these rules, and all the now-accepted rules of legal writing? Surely it wasn’t just that Justices in the 19th century were uniformly bad writers. What sparked that change?

I’m an appellate court judge with 29 years in the law. I’ve read more briefs than I can count. Strong arguments are crucial. But they’re not enough. If you overtax the judge’s brain, you’re less persuasive. Here are three tips to write for the judge’s brain instead of against it. Thread. 🧵

@cselley Hope springs eternal.

Ontario is a planet where people hear "bars will be allowed to stay open until 4am" as "all bars will stay open until 4am."

@totalmoiddeathh We thank you.

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@redroomrantings i died several times tonight.

hockey is taking years off my life

@redroomrantings It is frankly terrifying. Portuguese made with lard. Chinese sugary and mushy. Mass-maufactured simulations with margarine: dense. Metro: bread in croissant form. Bad brioche, basically. cf "New York Bagels"

sometimes i see what passes for a croissant in america and cry

@redroomrantings I was shocked one November day in Montreal when a fellow asked me what that red poppy on my lapel was for!

My favourite part of living in Quebec is pretending to not understand when people say "Victoria Day."

@simon_schama Huzzah!

Am aboard the Pequod ( for the 4th time I think) Moby Dick the second greatest novel ever written and a whole universe of writing to live in .. As an antidote to the flat- footed prose of the media, trailing their stale opinions behind them and the fanatical drivel of the powerful plus the smug certainties of billionaires, rich only in money, nothing beats the great masters of writing. They are our life support, our thread of humanity in a mechanical world . AI will never produce a Melville for there is no data set that could have predicted him.

@Holly20124 @For_Film_Fans Interview was in 1975, no? No need to accuse Fonda of being liar, I would suggest.

HENRY FONDA — born 121yrs ago today — describes seeing a man being lynched as an 11yr old boy on Parkinson in 1975.

@bernardtjoy Truth!

I think we all know that there has only been one truly great response to Homer:

@DanielleFong ITt' always coca-leaf time somewhere!

is there some kinda indigenous cure for hantavirus, such as, chewing on coca leaf? let's check

@sarah_cone @GS_VCactivist @samdblond Do you mind if I ask how much you pay for Monaco?

@GS_VCactivist cc @samdblond