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I want to either be a fully locked-in, goal-driven execution machine or explore the depths of emotional range life's got to offer. None of that in-between stuff

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@meshtimes_ @asvora @angjiang @katelyn_lesse @_catwu @claudeai fcking love this ❤️‍🔥

30 mins into the claude code keynote and every speaker so far has been a woman. just saying 🫶🏻 @asvora @angjiang @katelyn_lesse @_catwu Dianne Penn @claudeai

@0xJonnyDee ugh I hate this place

Marketers: There is no such thing as the perfect growth strategy. AI:

@quinnslcm @MeganNyvold common, he just needs a bigger shirt

Just opened Instagram saw one of the worst outfits I’ve potentially ever seen in my entire life and immediately closed the app. I think it might be time to entirely nuke it actually.

@ishverduzco yess, they went from buying their first business for 10k to buying Eventbrite last year

@nevm_a wild

this is a half baked thought and probably stupid But with the cost of building apps basically going to zero, at what point does it make sense to buy small startups simply for the distribution they’ve built (social/email/pod/YT/SEO) (Maybe even acquihire the team if they have a great following and would want to work at the company) Noticed that some founders great at marketing/distribution but work on the wrong idea but that audience/traffic can still be really valuable to another parent company

@GadiBorovich @NotionHQ @supabase @livekit @akothari can you send some engineers over for a good cause? :)

I want engineers at @NotionHQ, Codex team, @supabase, @livekit, or other similarly cool products to drop by the house next week. Pls help connect us!

@michael_chomsky just come up to Embarcadero wework

I'm looking for a coworking/office space to work from today. Paid for Frontier Tower but they are being too slow to let me in, and won't grant temporary access. Also the monitors suck and the atmosphere is a bit stifling. Extremely sad because the people working there were cool when I visited. Will give them a chance but looking for something else, either just for the day or permanently.

@Clara_Gold we’d get along so well

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

@TarlonKhoubyari the only correct answer for this is the ritz

best places to cry in SF - Golden Gate Park - Chrissy fields - rodeo beach - Buena vista park - Japan town - ocean beach - the benches at the pier near the ferry building - the ferry - Lafayette park facing Washington st

@TarlonKhoubyari i think in the middle of the palace of fine arts is perfect

best places to break up with your cofounder: - South Park - the walk from the chase center to fort mason - fort mason - the battery - walking pacific st (start in Jackson square, end in Lafayette park) - the lobby of the palace hotel - salesforce park (loop for hours) - palace of fine arts

@wongmjane @mercury ooo they should just use One by @katibmoe

Mercury is working on Gmail integration for automatic receipt matching + SMS receipt matching

@antinertia would also love to join

SF 🇺🇸 are you ready??? we’re hosting a private rooftop DINER after a packed rooftop drink last time no panels. no BS. just real conversations > ai ugc > growth > meta ads > recruitment > lead magnets > influencer marketing > print millions with X launches > & more 🗓 Thursday, 6PM 📍 SF RT + comment “growth” and I’ll DM you the invite link

@adilmania I chose Chase as my primary biz account - went to a local branch, got assigned an account manager, can call him anytime about any issues. Was freaking fire experience. All of the new Mercuries of the world don't even have a phone number to reach them

need a business bank account. which one should i go with? and why?

@miggyy day in life of sitting like a shrimp at a desk? yeah idkkk

new media formats that would cook on socials: > founder lifestyle content (day in the life of startup founders) > mtv cribs for startups > pitch tank - founders pitch live to an audience > ship week 5 part series of a cooking show but its for shipping an app in a week

@briannekimmel is crazy that this is the bar 🫠

One thing I really admire in SF is people who intentionally seek out new friends with no professional agenda. This sounds obvious to people outside of SF, but it’s very easy to conflate many transactions with a meaningful friendship and that’s just not always the case.

the tech content discourse is one of the roughest I've had to scroll through on this app truly dark stuff - identifying a good clip is a minute fraction of the battle, every member of your marketing team should be able to do this or your team sucks - your AI apps are trash thats not how content and clipping actually works - everything yall think is good tech content on here was paid promo from the undisclosed X leeches - personalities, scripting, testing + iteration, being in the arena or organic on the platforms is everything

@katibmoe damn 🔥

Really cool

one week without claude code

@cailynyongyong yess

anyone wants to do the next vids w me when im in sf? or any next topics you guys want to see? i’ve done a bunch of stuff all over linkedin, x, yt, instagram