Perry Johnson

@jesseproudman @AskVenice congrats Jesse! pumped for you

I'm stoked to announce I've joined Venice.ai as CTO. I'm excited to be part of a team that's pushing back against the censorship and surveillance that's become all too common in the AI space. @AskVenice is a game-changer: private, uncensored, and designed to put you in control. I'm thrilled to be working alongside my longtime friend @ErikVoorhees, a true innovator and advocate for freedom and autonomy and @TeanaTaylor whom I've known for years. Together, we're on a mission to make AI more accessible, more powerful, and completely private. This journey is just getting started...

The day before Thanksgiving, working from my dad's home office, circadian rhythm is off, one too many cups of coffee, ripping Third Eye Blind's self titled album is a really pure stack for building a data pipeline. Once a year sort of session that makes you feel grateful

@jordihays @rorrawater @BrianDKeller7 @CharlieRorra congrats on the launch guys. snagged one yesterday.

I’m excited to announce the Porsche 911 of water filters: @rorrawater Rorra is a new countertop water filter that is… Beautiful – Striking stainless steel body that looks both futuristic and nostalgic at the same time. Effective – Targets harmful contaminants like PFAS, Microplastics, Lead, and many more. Durable – Made of medical-grade stainless steel designed to last for decades.. Timeless – Designed to be at home in any kitchen or office, and holds its own with any other appliance. Easy to set up - Takes less than 10 minutes to set up once it arrives. Easy to use – My 2 year old can use it by himself. Accessible – No plumbing, electrical, or expensive set-up work required. Rigorously Tested – We’ve spent six figures testing with the NSF, the world’s top certification body for water filtration products. Rorra is available everywhere in the US starting today, and it couldn’t come at a more important time. The harsh truth is that America's water infrastructure is broken. Our nation’s tap water is often contaminated with hundreds of contaminants that impact our health, from microplastics and PFAS, to lead (a lot of our municipal water systems still use lead pipes), and many more. All invisible but deadly threats in the long-term. Rorra's CEO @BrianDKeller7 and I faced this issue head on shortly after our kids were born, as they suffered from skin issues due to contaminated tap water. After researching potential solutions with @CharlieRorra, we found a host of issues with the existing products and brands in the market. Lack of transparency – The majority of brands do not even bother to work with accredited third party labs to test their products. Poor efficacy – Many companies claim to filter things out that they simply do not. Bad design – Lots of plastic-based products that are an eyesore regardless of your kitchen and can have harmful chemicals leach into water. Confusing experiences – Lack of simplicity in systems create mental burden and lead to improper usage. Expensive set up costs – Many systems require getting a plumber out to your home and alter your existing plumbing, which can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars by itself. Rorra is our answer to these issues and over the coming years we will continuously invest more time and resources into water filter R&D and make those innovations available for as many people as possible. We want Rorra to be the water filter company that every household in America can rely on. Thank you to @bzises, @jwmares, @baileyberro, @jmwass, and many more for supporting the mission and investing pre-product. We couldn’t be more excited to share our first product with the world. If you’re curious about the contaminants in your water, visit @rorrawater’s website and enter your zip code to get an in-depth report on your local tap water.

Oxtail is exceptional. Been slow cooking the meat then further cooking down just the bones and connective tissue to make broths. Can see all the gelatin after refrigerating. Insane how good it is.

Technology we've built to help freight forwarders reduce documentation errors and avoid shipment delays.

@hill_cg bittersweet indeed. that's such a special solo drive too. cheers to the next chapter, love your company

Whenever I need more wool for the business, I take a 10 hour (round trip) drive to the Montana mill with a van and trailer. Today is the first day I hired someone to do this for me. I thought I’d be relieved not to make the long solo drive but it’s actually bittersweet. Waking up at 4am, sneaking out the house to the brisk cold with a steaming cup of coffee. A Lone Ranger on the highway. Some Waylon through the mountain drive, watching the sun come up the Pass at the Idaho-Montana border. All the time in the world to think on the open road. It’s a good feeling to build something. It’s a sad feeling to lose the seemingly mundane tasks along the way.

@taaltree this paper is awesome- thanks for sharing

Let me tell you a story about 3 black bears and 2 cougars in a new natural history paper by MS student and amazing naturalist Marcus Bianco. Cougar C256 gave brith on June 14 at a nursery site. She killed an elk on June 29. A 129 kg male bear U2 arrives/1 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Fired up to see @natfriedman kick off a plastics research project. Let's figure this out

Coffee shop ripping Learn To Fly- Foo Fighters before 7:45am is aspirational stuff

@robbwolf hilarious western MT weather today as well

Hi Montana, my name is Robb. We really like living here, but we seem to be having some failure of communication. You see, this is the time of year called “spring.” It’s cool, sunny, precipitation does happen (April showers, May flowers and all that…) but it’s not this frozen variety. Ok, great chatting with you!! Let’s warm some things up…hey, why does my weather app say more snow Thursday/Friday!? Damn you!!

@abacaj this is a decent heuristic in general that can be applied to many domains- entrepreneurs, health, investing, sports subtractive vs additive

the most prolific software engineers I've ever met nearly always used one screen, no mechanical keyboards (basic logitech?) and sometimes headphones. really says something about wasting time on equipment when you should be focused on writing code

Jamming to When the Levee Breaks cover by Led Zeppelin while deploying some new infrastructure is a special kind of 1-2 punch

@Casagrandezz there is a massive difference/lack of cross over in conditioning as well

There’s a massive difference in cultures between “gym fit” & hiking, rock climbing, skiing fit. One tends to take immense pride/vanity in aesthetics the other is more of a unthought of byproduct

First 50F bluebird weekday of the year always hits so different. Signs of life

Styrofoam is such a diabolical material. Crumbles and falls apart, then gets everywhere with a static charge that clings to things so you can’t easily get rid of the small pieces. Takes 500 years to break down. Can’t be good for humans either.

The short ribs in the slow cooker yielded tons of bone broth

Slow cooked short ribs, roasted sweet potatoes, grass fed butter, salt to taste

Something about seeing rail cargo headlights cutting through a mountain pass at dawn during a winter storm that makes you feel alive

squashed.

The late afternoon, coffee shop in a cold, rainy port city, and you're over-caffeinated, tracking down a multi-day bug that makes you comb through every layer of the stack. Special kind of leave your ego at the door engineering session