matt hunter

@triketora amazing, congrats!! 🥳

professional update! i am joining anthropic as a member of technical staff! i’ll be on labs - it’s a founder shaped role and i couldn’t be more excited to have the opportunity to help shepherd technology for the benefit of humanity. onwards towards helpful, harmless, powerful ai

@sriramk Excited for this! 🙏

back to writing

love you, brother @om. decades of unsolicited spicy takes, but the most sage life advice. the cigars, whiskeys, and contrarian arguments became coffees, walks, and playing with the kids. asked you to officiate my wedding. you roasted me the whole time. as you said, it would take an old wise hindu to properly marry a buddhist to a catholic. none of us were actually very religious, but you always did love the drama. a friend for the ages, supporting and betting on many of us when it was least cool, but most needed. rest in peace now. we will miss you. om.co/2026/06/24/196…

Om There was a moment in the room where someone said, “Any final words to say? You can each just say one word that comes to mind.” Silence filled the room until someone finally piped up: “Well, he was always the man with the words.” After a long pause, all I could add was, “Thank you, Om.” Thank you, Om. Thank you for being my closest friend. Thank you for letting me see the other side of you, the unfiltered version unseen in your public or online expression. Thanks for the early morning coffees, the late night conversations, the photos, the travels, the “Bro, I say-it-like-it-is.” Thank you for elevating my sense of style and taste. After all, life is short, so why settle for anything less than the best? Someone asked me this week: How did Om and I even become friends all those years ago? Sometimes, I think he saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself. Perhaps it was because we both went through tough times simultaneously. Or, perhaps we were just two misfits who recognized some shared restlessness in one another. But, probably, it was that we were the only two who always opted for an espresso and a photo walk at six in the morning. You knew him as the man at the center of Silicon Valley. He lived and breathed tech, and he wrote the “big words”: the one-to-many broadcast that defined an industry. He came across, in all the right ways, as the curmudgeon. He was the rare person in the Valley speaking truth to power, reminding everyone that those big-shot founders were just people like us, friends with whom we’d only recently traded ideas and dreams over group text. But some of us were lucky to see the other side of Om: the small words. I envied his ability to walk into every store, every restaurant, every corner where someone already knew his name. Maybe his true platform wasn’t the one-to-many broadcast; maybe it was the close one-to-one connection of small words. He loved the makers: the writers, the artists, the tailors, the photographers, the builders, the restaurateurs, the philosophers and all sorts of misfits. He would get to know you, your kids, maybe take your picture, ask about your startup or shop and tell your story to the world. And for these stories we are glad: that’s what made him the man, the presence, the legend. I keep refreshing his blog, checking my inbox, waiting for a ping on messages. I would have loved to have had a last chat, a last Brunello, a last espresso, some last words. I can’t help but think he would have wanted to share some profound parting words. But now it’s our turn to share: a photograph, an anecdote, a story about Om. For a man who spent most of his life writing about other people, it’ll finally be nice to read what other people write about him. Thank you, Om. blog.naveen.com/2026/06/om-2/

@Freyy_is The shift.

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing. honestly? it’s this.

@dotmariusz @Joshua_Ariza Nike: *makes a new styles to address people’s concerns* People: WHY DOESNT NIKE JUST RE-RELEASE CLASSIC JORDANS AGAIN?!

@Joshua_Ariza Nike: *does 17th re-release of a Jordan that everyone and their dog has multiples of already at $300* Nike: WHY WONT PEOPLE BUY OUR PRODUCTS!?!?

I used to design full time for Nike and I have thoughts on this

@grok @dtrinh @lessin @grok redo it and include dilution

@dtrinh @lessin Based on Anthropic's latest reported valuation of $350 billion (from today's funding talks), FTX's original ~8% stake would be worth about $28 billion if still held. It was sold in 2024 for ~$1.3 billion.

Remind me... who bought SBF's stake?

@glencoates @OpenAI @tobi @Shopify Congrats Glen!

Joined @OpenAI to head up App Platform and help turn ChatGPT into an OS. Last successful attempt was iOS ~20 years ago, so .. should be a cakewalk Thanks to @tobi for the opportunity of a lifetime, and 💚 to everyone at @Shopify Can't wait to coding-demo-fail on a new stage

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@RyRock26 What about the sharks?

Paper straws can go fuck themselves. (I do care about the sea turtles & dolphins tho)

@TomFornelli @grok @grok who is mine?

Hey @grok, who is the most famous person to view my account, it doesn’t have to be a mutual, and don’t tag them.

The Rise of Service-as-a-Software: Software That Works For You linkedin.com/pulse/rise-ser… Don't forget to sign up for the @Field_Ventures Substack: fieldventures.substack.com

My new collab with @indievc drops today: Six episodes. Six interviews with design pioneers. In music, we have genre-defining artists. In software, we have first-of-kind designers. Season 1 stars:

@doriandargan looks dope, can’t wait to try. congrats!

Doji is quite literally the most personal way to shop for fashion online.
 Try on products using your AI likeness, shop your favorites and share with friends.  
Available now - rt/reply for an invite.

@internetmick @whatdotcd Came here to say this

@whatdotcd lightspeed champion was a demigod

Blipster chiming in to remind you that hipster culture was actually pretty black!

@rrhoover 😳

PlasticList—a project to quantify plastics found in specific foods we eat—was just published. A few things that stood out: • Plastic chemicals were found in 86% of the foods tested • No difference between water in bottled plastic vs. glass • Food that spent 45 mins in the takeout containers showed 34% higher levels • Significant plastics were found in foods produced in the 1950s • LaCroix is safe (phew!) Link below...

@srcasm congrats!

I got sober over two years ago. I didn’t go to AA but had a phenomenal support system around me. I decided to do it without a formal program and it’s stuck. That’s okay. If you need the program, use the program. Getting help is okay! I’ve been on a GLP-1 for a little over a year and I’m down 25% of my body weight. Insane to go from 199 lbs to 149 lbs in a matter of months. Every single health indicator from my bloodwork is now normal and/or good. My doctor is certain I’ve added five healthy years or more to my life. I’m not saying it’s right for everyone but I’m alright with the help. I used a TI-89 calculator in school, Excel at work, and AI for anything I can in today’s day and age. It’s alright to get help and to use the tools available to you. AMA.

@dennishegstad Herkimer in Seattle. I live close to where they are roasted.

what are your hands down absolute favorite coffee beans? where are they from? why is it your favorite?

@KristyT wow, great work!

@cpaik @bryce @karrisaarinen the whole fit! 👀

@bryce @karrisaarinen Wow. That t shirt is grail status

At Home w/ @karrisaarinen (dropping soon) …