Kayla M. Anderson

@Alex_Danco This was my absolute favorite a16z post by 1000 km. I’m inspired to read it a third time.

Infinite Jest belongs in the techno-optimist canon: a hot take by me, where I argue that its reputation as a dystopian novel falls apart if you actually read it, it is a joyful book open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/inf…

After 41 years we did it congrats everyone

Tim Walz seems like a fantastic VP pick. He clearly balances compassionate and pro business policy. Minnesota is ranked #3 for happiness, #2 for Fortune 500s per capita, #6 for businesses, and #2 for life expectancy. And he was the 7th most bipartisan member in congress.

When you think your city is too far gone to be saved, remember that this was the East Village in the 1980s. It’s never too late.

Duolingo is not a business. It is an absurdist art project. An app for learning languages that no one actually learns a language from. Like a restaurant full of people waiting for their food that never comes

I can’t believe nobody fixed robocalls, so literally everyone just stopped answering their phones. Bless the gmail spam filtering team for saving email.

If you're looking for eclipse glasses right now you understand why same day voter registration is important

Brie cheese is going extinct and your not doing anything? Scientists in France made it asexual and now the bacteria that creates it cannot reporoduce on its own and its dying out at alarming rates and your just typing in a spreadsheet at work? Appalling

Roses are red, It’s important to share, The best day of school, Was the Scholastic Book Fair.

Award shows are tedious and crass, but the smile on Tracy Chapman’s face when the auditorium goes nuts for her before she takes everyone to school with no lip sync, no auto-tune and no in-ear monitors is a pretty sweet moment to capture live.

within months you will be able to buy genomics data from 14 million americans for +/- $200m? the inevitable fire sale of this mess to an overseas PE firm is going to be a national security matter on the scale of which we haven't seen in healthcare in years

Private equity really went into ski resorts, added a mobile app to the experience, and then felt it was ok to charge $250+ for a single day lift ticket

Craziness in Oakland… pulled up to Ramen Shop on College Ave this evening for dinner (Rockridge). As soon as we got out of the car, loud noises and horns were coming from across the street at the Traders Joe’s parking lot. A car was driving through the lot with numerous people bipping cars. Onlookers honked and yelled, and at one point the car with the culprits jumped the island and ran into a small tree. The car then proceeded to slowly drive north on College Ave with the doors open while at least three people dressed in all black, masks, and headlamps checked car by car on both sides of the street breaking windows as they went. The car pulled up right next to ours, one of the bippers looked in right at us and went on to break into two cars in front of us. People were on the street taking videos, yelling at them to get the f*** out of there, and on their phones presumably calling 911. The culprits didn’t care and leisurely walked in the middle of the street and in front of traffic. Absolute madness. But @MayorShengThao says Oakland is safe. Woof. Cc: @BerkeleyScanner

I just wanna remind everyone that Will Smith slapped the host at the Oscars over a joke but Taylor swift sipping her drink was “dramatic” and “she needs to learn to take a joke” and “she’s too emotional”

Your daily reminder that Boeing spent the last decade replace their engineers in the leadership heirarchy with non-technical management to focus on boosting shareholder returns instead of building safe products. Capitalism kills

Next by @AP : “Julia Child and Jeffrey Dahmer are two famous cooks with different approaches to ingredients.”

It is December 29, one of the shortest, darkest days of the year. The rain is balmy, the AC is on. It is EIGHT degrees farenheit warmer than the average daily high. Everything is fine.

Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence

It’s with deep pride that we share the news that on 1/2/24 @jaltma is stepping up to Executive Chairman of the Board, and @swbjoyce is joining Lattice as CEO lattice.com/blog/the-next-…

for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed. i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong. i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it. but it is so fucked.