Spencer Ochs

@mcrodriguez24 @AutismCapital church / faith community "friends" can be anything these days. parenting needs stronger bedrock to build on

@spencerochs @AutismCapital I grew up where more people lean on family, but I guess leaning on your friends to help with parenting is an option...

Folks (guys and gals), don't be psyopped by this article. You don't have unlimited time. You need to be moving. Don't put off life. Don't look at Anne Hathaway getting pregnant at 43 and think "Oh, ok I'll be fine." It's a psyop. You'll have massive regret if you squander your youth with hedonism and selfish BS and then try to scramble to have a real life later. Don't be deceived by lies.

@mcrodriguez24 @AutismCapital idk, if you are 40 and you haven't built the social ties to get some support with child rearing, wtf have you been doing with your life?

@AutismCapital She will also be 40 with a new baby and have so much help available. If you are an average person, you will likely not have the support that she does. Your parents may also be too old to help out as well...

@alexbronzini I think we need a grand bargain on Woke, where the left agrees that they've reached a dead end, and the right agrees to just keep winning intergenerationally

I think we need a grand bargain on Woke, where the left agrees that it sucked, and the right agrees to stop acting victimized by it half a decade later

@bradshannon @jnnfir @DoW_CIO Implementing the requirements is fine, anyone can have AI help them change the right configs, but the 3rd party audit was way too expensive (ruinously so for some small shops)

@jnnfir @DoW_CIO I wouldn't expect this to last long. This is a 'new CIO' thing to do. It will be back, in some form or another, but you're still required to implement NIST SP 800-171r2.

The DoW is immediately suspending CMMC Phase II requirements to clear bureaucratic roadblocks for the DIB. We must scale warfighter readiness, not paperwork. What you need to know: · Phase II & costly administrative burdens are paused. · Phase I self-assessments remain firmly in place. · NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 and DFARS 252.204-7012 compliance are still required. · Focus is shifting to tangible cybersecurity and operational resilience, not red tape. To uplift cybersecurity while eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy, we’ve launched a 60-day review on the future of the program to be led by a CMMC Reform Task Force. We are also seeking industry perspectives from the DIB via our new RFI on driving scalable, realistic security measures and operational resilience without compliance burden. Watch the full remarks from @DoWCIODavies below. Read the press release: war.gov/News/Releases/… Learn More: dowcio.war.gov/brilliantbasic…

@MeatCMMC @DoW_CIO The expense of the 3PAO audit was too much for most small companies in the DIB. This needed to be changed.

@DoW_CIO You will never have the kind of commitment from the ecosystem ever again if you terminate this program. Tens of millions of dollars was invested throughout the entire industry and now you’re just going to kill it? Are you out of your minds?

@woke8yearold Portland is a leader in unintended, yet obvious, consequences

Portland banned parents from donating to local school districts in the name of equity, making it so you could only donate to the overall school system. As a result donations fell from around 3-4 million to ~200k. very equitable

@zalberico @cremieuxrecueil Those don't look like healthy demographics to me...

@cremieuxrecueil The one exception is Noe Valley! Tons of kids walking around, in the parks, lots of strollers.

You can model SF as a city where Oura rings outnumber wedding rings, where there are plenty of healthy people, and no kids to show for it.

@cremieuxrecueil oura rings outnumber wedding rings and dogs in strollers outnumber kids in strollers

@IterIntellectus much easier than the crushing existential angst of not having kids

i always thought kids were easy, we’ve been raising them since the beginning of time without too many complaints and people who say they are hard always seemed like losers but then i had a daughter and i can confidently say that’s much much easier than it seems

@CartayaRen92307 @Saint_n0mad common misconception engineering predates science though, and happens in the absence of formalized theory all the time

@Saint_n0mad Engineering is applied science, no science, no engineering, as simple as that. Engineering is about to optimize the applied science for the best performance possible with the available resources and according to the use case requirements.

Science without engineering would be just a philosophy

@luke_metro @JasonrShuman Have you found any that weren't teleop going from 0 to 150?

@JasonrShuman AI or teleop?

Rumor has it a robotics biz is going $0 to $150M this year. Turns out physical AI can scale quite well.

@traestephens @GwynethPaltrow @anduriltech An Anduril branded Goop egg would go hard

Thank you Pepper Potts (I mean, @gwynethpaltrow) for your curiosity about @anduriltech and your willingness to explore complex but important topics. Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation! Link to the episode in 🧵👇

@Sam98103202 @Pat_Stedman Is that just wishful thinking on your part? At any rate, those are the only cultures that are making it through the birth dearth, so if you think they are bad, you better make a culture with above replacement fertility.

@spencerochs @Pat_Stedman Poor women in those communities. They're often abused.

I know far too many men who'd like to have big families but their women won't have more than 1 kid. Even 2 kids is a big ask, it's "so overwhelming" for them. If they do have a second one they tend to hate their husband for it. Before you ask, it's not really about resources or even help. That would be understandable, and could be reframed as a timing issue. But they usually have help from in-laws or nannies / daycare. It's also not about the man's laziness - these guys are very involved husbands and fathers. It's basically just "too much" for these women emotionally to be moms, period. If they even take the plunge, they tap out at one. We talk a lot on here about men being weak, and how they don't live up to their forefathers' courage. I obviously agree with this. There is a clear effeminacy and hopelessness among your average guy that didn't exist in prior generations. Living in their shadows, we look pathetic. But honestly, the women are in many ways even more embarrassing. Just try putting them up against their grandmothers and great grandmothers. It's humiliating. They have never had it easier... and yet somehow they have never struggled more. In other words, they are weak. I understand the frustration many guys have, because besides sex I don't even know what many of them contribute anymore. Life with these women revolves entirely about their incessant, negative feelings. They are not dependable and can't seem to carry any societal burdens. I hate the gender war slop, and I know all women aren't like this. There are a lot of amazing women and wives out there (including my own). But it's gotten to a point where societal norms seem to exist entirely to cater to women's feelings. And we wonder why things are falling apart. Women are free to make the choices they want, and I don't think we should ever change that. But we should not be praising women who are unwilling or incapable of living for anything besides their own gratification. These women are as big of losers as the guys who sit around playing video games, and should be called out as such.

@Phaet0nic @kellyjgreer ∞

@kellyjgreer how big is the market for humans?

this might break your brain -industrial robots have been in production since 1930 -Figure AI was founded in 2022 and does not sell to the general public -the market size of the entire industrial robot market is LESS than the private valuation Figure AI

@E_Bruxxx The whole category is so crowded; everyone and their mother says they are a VC. We just need more doers/operators period.

Have seen a lot of debate lately around “traditional VCs” vs “operator/untraditional VCs” and honestly think both sides massively oversimplify it. Very real differences in how they think, underwrite risk, and work with founders. Traditional path VCs (MBA → banking → consulting → growth equity → VC) are often extremely polished. Typically very good at process, fundraising strategy, market sizing, financial storytelling, LP communication, pricing rounds, understanding how institutional capital behaves, etc. They know how the machine works. And contrary to Twitter discourse, that absolutely matters. A lot of founders underestimate how valuable these skillsets can become later in a company’s life. But from what I’ve personally seen, that path can also sometimes create investors who over-index on consensus and “what a venture-backable company is supposed to look like.” Now compare that to operator/untraditional VCs. These are people who built companies, worked in industry, military, engineering, manufacturing, sales, blue collar environments, startups, or just took weird nonlinear paths before entering venture. Typically, they have a much higher tolerance for ambiguity, chaos, and imperfect businesses because they’ve actually lived through operational pain. A lot of them evaluate founders less like spreadsheets and more like people. BUT… Operator VCs have weaknesses too, and people rarely talk about them honestly. Some operator VCs massively over-project their own experience onto founders. “I built a company before, therefore this founder should operate exactly how I did.” That becomes dangerous fast. Some also underestimate how important capital markets, positioning, narrative, downstream financing strategy, and institutional relationships actually are. Building a company and investing in one are not the same skillset. Truthfully, some of the worst investors I’ve ever met came from BOTH camps. The traditional guys who’ve never actually built anything but think every business can be modeled neatly in Excel… AND the ex-operators who think one successful operating experience suddenly makes them experts in every category forever. The best VCs I’ve personally met usually sit somewhere in the middle combining adaptability and realism with the strategic discipline and market understanding of traditional finance. Most importantly: strong opinions loosely held. They don’t walk into founder meetings trying to “win” intellectually. They listen. Because at the end of the day, founders are the ones spending years in the arena.

@aphysicist Just started. 🫡

instead of starting another drone, robot, or defense company, pivot to making parts. it's a goldmine for smart people.

@JoshuaKDominic @IanRountree @ameekapadia LPs are in the engine room

@IanRountree @ameekapadia What do you think the hierarchy will be on our trains? x.com/JoshuaKDominic…

VC hierarchy as observed on my SFO-LAX flight. Of the friends on this plane… @ameekapadia’s in the back I’m in economy+ (a rare luxury for me) Friend from a mega fund is in 1st One of our LPs is in row 1

@dirtman "...Dominion over all the creatures that crawl on the ground" Looks like we have a lot of ground to cover

Crazy that we have a giant moon and two fixer upper planets as neighbours As if it’s not our destiny to conquer the stars

@BradWilcoxIFS The future is looking very religious The secular groups have left the field to enjoy hedonistic obsolescence

New: US fertility keeps falling, hitting another record low of just 1.57 babies per woman in 2025.