Rishi Taparia

I’m excited to announce the @brickxbrickpod! @arpanpunyani and I will be sitting down with early employees, founders and investors to talk about the (often untold) crazy stories that help lay the foundation for future startup success 🧱

@mvanhorn Send please!

Made a friend from college a "How to learn agentic engineering in 3 days" guide custom for him. I took our 30 minute call Granola transcript + copy/paste of his linkedin + copy/paste of my Every Agentic Hack I Know article and then /ce-plan make a vercel web page with check boxes of his 3 days of training. My fav part? It added a "stuck" button at the bottom of every page. I had no idea what it did. Text me? Nope - it said "take a screenshot of your problem and paste it into your LLM"

Happy @SpaceX IPO day to those who celebrate! 🚀

Holy cow @nyknicks! Talk about destiny…

@taps and I @GarudaVC hosted our annual meeting in SF a few weeks ago for our LPs and invited guests, followed by our community-wide Spring Celebration right after. It's always a fun opportunity to share where we're investing and what we're learning, having a few founders and leaders share insights on where their markets are going, and bringing our growing community together for some fun! Special thanks to portfolio founders @adarshkulkarni from @FoundryRobotics, @shaneehrhardt from @ExScienceAI , and Derek Ben and Michael at Vardera - who were busy closing deals the morning of our event! - for joining us. And thank you to the inimitable @rodriscoll from @scalevp and Jonathan Roosevelt from Goldman Sachs for sharing their perspectives and wisdom. Thanks to our amazing sponsors Burkland, Neutech, Inc., Fenwick, and Citizens!

@erikbryn If the Knicks win game 3, you won’t be able to get into MSG for less than $15k! 🤯

@erikbryn That is absolutely true. Not enough house for a screen big enough to do it justice! I just hope there are mostly “fans” in the audience, vs. those that are going to see and be seen at arguably the hottest event (and hardest ticket) in NYC

What do these prices tell us about the relative demand for "Certified Human"^TM experiences vs. machine-made goods and services?

@DavidAFrench Best I’ve got so far…trying not to let it torpedo all my productivity! 😅

I mean, honestly this is disgraceful:

I've been on 82-0 for days, barely able to sleep or eat, and I can't get above 74-8. I've only had Warriors Wilt once. I've found my white whale. I won't rest until I can win 82.

@erikbryn Feels like it is more this point than the other!😅

And of course, the buying power of people at the top of the income distribution in the NYC area.

@iamjakestream @lessin @shaunmmaguire

@lessin @shaunmmaguire

There is extreme alpha in backing founders that other VCs underestimate

@howardlindzon 😆

went for a hair cut and barber asked if I was over 65 … guy should write a book on how not to get a tip also - fuck creatine

So many of these takes on encyclical are so so bad. That I no longer know if the people didn’t read it or just have stupid thoughts

@Beezer232 @sarahcat21

@sarahcat21 🐟

Early stage VCs are the tinned fish of venture capital these days; perceived as cheap by some, revered by chefs, collected by others.

Mirai Tech is now Mirai Labs (@trymirai) A full-stack frontier lab for on-device AI. Models, inference engine, quantization, and application layer, all co-designed from the hardware constraint up. Interactive AI is a continuous loop: parsing, validating, tool calls, rendering. That only works when latency disappears. Cloud models can't get you there as they're built for large batches, abundant memory, throughput as the metric. On-device inverts every assumption, requiring the architecture that was built from the hardware constraint up. The silicon is shipped. The software stack to match the chip doesn't exist yet. That's ours to build.

@ilyaf @Rivian @Mind_Robotics Boom! Excited to partner with you my friend 💪🏽

RJ Scaringe has already done something extraordinarily hard: built @Rivian into one of the most ambitious vertically integrated manufacturing companies in the world. That matters for @Mind_Robotics. RJ has lived the complexity industrial robotics requires across hardware, software, supply chain, manufacturing, reliability, and real-world deployment. Excited to lead Mind’s latest round and partner with @RJScaringe and the team as they build the AI-native robotics platform for manufacturing. kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/m…

@nikunj What about IC meetings? 😅

I'm so glad I can finally say this without being canceled (I think).. Weekly 1:1s are generally a psy-op by mid tier empire-building managers who simply want to micromanage versus trusting their reports to pursue excellence and flourish. It’s to steer you so that you don’t fall out of line. If you are still in a job where you are being coddled every day, I urge you to find a place that truly pushes your boundaries. At least for a little bit you’ll know what excellence demands and what it feels like being in high performance teams.

@nabeel @ItzSuds East Bay FTW! 💪🏽

@ItzSuds love it. also love the #1 high school in the U.S. - in the bay area - doesn't get a whiff because the Easy Bay is to bay area as Gen-X is to generations. Chronically overloooked, and happy to be.

*Taps Sign* reposting my best tweet ever. A definitive guide to Bay Area High Schools and the people they produce

“@arenaphysica’s bet is that the same idea works as a foundation model rather than a one-off demo: faster inference, trained on roughly 10 million geometries plus decades of simulation data, with lab measurements added as a third data leg to help close the sim-to-reality gap.” Thanks to the @hardwarefyi team for highlighting @m__frei’s CDFAM talk in this week’s newsletter. Read the full piece here: hardwarefyi.substack.com/p/rf-engineeri….

@david_perell Amazing! Can't wait to listen

Anne Lamott is the queen of writing teachers. Ask 100 writers for their favorite book about the craft, and her book, Bird by Bird, will top the list. Everybody who's tried to make a work of art knows how loud the inner critic can be. When struggle comes, most people try harder. But Anne says: "The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less." Improving as a writer is about becoming more aware and paying closer attention to what's already around you, and this conversation is about how to do that. It centers around her famous writing advice: “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” Timestamps: 0:39 Bird by Bird 2:17 Why writer's block isn't real 3:36 The problem with trying harder 9:06 Every book has three drafts 14:24 Learning to observe the world 15:58 Facing your inner critic 27:59 "Help, thanks, wow" 31:16 You get three pages 35:51 Revenge = fuel 38:26 Anne's #1 writing prompt 48:53 Finding writing ideas 54:57 Writing lessons from movies 1:02:08 The ABDCE storytelling formula 1:05:37 What makes for a good ending? 1:10:57 Dealing with criticism 1:16:28 Writing to be fully alive I've shared the full conversation with Anne Lamott below. If you'd prefer to watch it, I've published it on YouTube, and you also can listen to it on Apple / Spotify. I've shared those links in the reply tweets. This is one of those bucket list interviews I've wanted to do ever since I started How I Write, and I hope you enjoy our conversation.

@JayKapoorNYC Orrrrrr they will work great? 🤔

Business names that would never work in India 😂

Welcome to Episode 1 of The New Feynman Lectures. No one better to kick off this series than Shaun Donovan, Head of Electrical and Mechnical Engineering at @anduriltech. Ever wonder about Triplex Redundancies in Autonomous Aircraft? Watch the full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=_AIoes… Next up: @JLopas with @basepowerco!