@AirCanada @AirCanada I have a tracker showing my wallet is still on this aircraft
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Mikey Tom
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Mikey Tom
@mikeytom
Associate Editor at ICONIQ. Previously @Cartainc, @AWScloud, @PitchBook Love golf, tennis, and all types music. Views my own.
SF via Seattle Katılım Mart 2010
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@AirCanada Left my wallet on one of your planes and am tracking it. Please help. AC 0573 yesterday. Seat 13F
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Hey friends
Just launched my newsletter, Fond, which highlights interesting food-related things in the SF/Bay Area. First edition features an interview with Anissa Marie Dingle of Dingles in Hayes Valley.
Enjoy, share, smash that subscribe button, etc
mikeyatom.substack.com/p/fond-e1-welc…
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Mikey Tom retweetledi
I haven't posted much on here in . . . years? Largely because my following here was mostly from my journalism days and I wasn't a journalist for the past decade! But after a lot of requests, I managed to get the old PandoMonthly archive back. (Actually Paul did for my 50th birthday). I am reposting them with current commentary in case you have missed them. . . it's a pretty wacky historical record given all that has happened in the past 15 years in tech (and politics!) @Sarahcudavault" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@Sarahcudavault
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I ate 100 breakfast sandwiches in San Francisco in a quest to find the city’s best. I never found one quite like this delicious offering at new breakfast sandwich spot Hatched.
My latest for @SFGate: sfgate.com/food/article/p…
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@andrewchen random, but think I might’ve just walked by you in PV? Would dm but don’t see the option.
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There's a tab that ranks officers based on the sum amount of tickets lol
Riley Walz@rtwlz
I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.
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Any reason why this wouldn't work for SF? Perhaps a lower concentration of people that need laundromats?
nytimes.com/2025/06/22/rea…
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Mikey Tom retweetledi
This @BW story on the billion-dollar business of Big Doodle is so, so good, as are the photos and the make-a-doodle widget and just...all of it! It's so good. Gift link: bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
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@JPBrebner Yep I do worry we're outsourcing the process, which robs us of the experience and knowledge/skills gained. Kinda like if you never learned to cut veggies properly while cooking and instead had a dispenser.
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I find it can sometimes be helpful revealing spots where you're getting stuck, or sparking ideas for an interesting turn of phrase, but in general have to spend so much time editing that it's faster to not use it.
I also think the quality of ideas goes down when you don't have to grapple with how to communicate them.
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This is how I feel about using LLMs for writing.
METR@METR_Evals
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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@thesquashSH Oh awesome thanks for building! Have loved Pocket for probably 10+ years now...so sad it's going away.
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@mikeytom Linkwarden is my favorite, also I just relased this tool to help people export their bookmarks, saved article contents, tags, and more before they delete everything: pocket.archivebox.io
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@JPBrebner Ah gotcha. Interesting interplay on if the onus is on the question asker or the answerer. I'd imagine the asker wouldn't have asked a Q that enables a canned response if the response had already been covered in the pitch. Point taken though!
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IMO it's ok if it's filler for when you're really thinking about the question. It's when the filler is just a transition into a script that I have a strong negative response. If "good question" is a *genuine* response, and the followup is substantive, then I have a positive reaction (if for no other reason than I feel good for getting the person to stop and think).
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Expanding on this: when you spend enough time in interviews or pitch meetings, "great question" becomes a surprisingly useful tell. It's an immediate giveaway that what you're about to hear is overly practiced.
Jonathan Brebner@JPBrebner
I hate it when people say “that’s a great question” before a scripted answer because by definition that wasn’t a great question
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@JPBrebner Wonder what a good replacement is for that "filler" statement. Maybe "That's something we've thought a lot about." People probably need a phrase that gives them time to think but doesn't peeve the asker.
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If nothing else, you need to be aware of when you’re playing to the interviewer’s ego—if you’re doing it too often or too obviously, it’s more likely to backfire than help.
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Mikey Tom retweetledi
I’ve never seen this many tech companies trying to hire in-house writers
Great writers — your skills are valued more than ever
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Any followers a member of @mixingboardco? Would love to chat if so 🙏🏽
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@patrick_oshag On the theme of quiet and attention, I really enjoyed Jenny O'Dell's "How to do Nothing" and "Saving Time"
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Going off grid for a few days. Any fantastic books that require a bit more quiet / attention that you’d recommend ?
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It seems insane to create for slow consumption or deep contemplation right now.
But it’s exactly the kind of work I like for exactly the kind of audience I like.
Depth isn’t cheap. It takes tens of hours of writing, editing, sourcing perspectives, adjusting pixels, poring over photography to pick a slightly better option, traveling to the printer to feel the paper stock and see how the ink interacts with it.
The bet is that there is very important goodness waiting to be discovered and experienced by those who go way, way beyond the norm.
And if that turns out of be a bad bet, I hope to give this world more than I take from it anyway.
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
This has been a very exciting week at Colossus—so a word about what we are up to… In the past week we released conversations with @DarrenFarber & @MichaelOvitz and written profiles (!) of @neilsburneracct & @matthuang In a content world that feels to me like Times Square or a casino, we will focus on profiles, conversations, and soon research pieces that take us months or years to make. We will constantly ratchet up the quality however we can. Someone told me today that they saved the profiles of Neil and Matt for before bed, when they could focus on them and enjoy them a bit more slowly. @JeremySternLA @domcooke @zebriez @gabi_imarques deserve the credit for making these first few great. I really hope we can earn a quiet slot in your day. In the next few weeks, we’ll release conversations with Neil & Matt to supplement their profiles. Everything we make will be free to all. But you can also subscribe via @ColossusReview to get the physical quarterly magazine which we will make as beautiful as we can—packed with our learnings from the fields of business and investing (we also include some “directors cut” length versions of our interviews). I hope you’ll subscribe and enjoy it each quarter. As for what’s next, we will keep hunting for cult figures, lessor known masters of their crafts, and main characters that we feel we can profile in a deeper way. Thank you for making all of this possible by reading, watching, listening to, and sharing our work.
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