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Michael Frye

Michael Frye

@_mfrye

Jack of all trades, master of some.

San Francisco, CA เข้าร่วม Eylül 2013
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Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward·
What search providers are you all using with openclaw/pi/opencode/etc? Brave; serpapi; gemini; ...? Got any favorites?
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
@paulg I dropped out. Definitely agree it's not for everyone and it was brutal for the first few years. I had to teach myself everything. In hindsight, biggest thing I missed is the college network of friends. I understand that's half the value of ivy league schools.
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham@paulg·
If you skip some or all of college to start a startup, it's on you to develop your mind the way college would have. And that's not something that happens by default in most startups.
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Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen@typesfast·
@_mfrye "Lessons of History" by Will Durant is my number one book of all time
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Michael Frye@_mfrye·
Hey @typesfast. Thanks for the ref to The Fish That Ate the Whale. One of the best books I've read! Any other recommendations?
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Sean Linehan
Sean Linehan@seanlinehan·
@_mfrye @typesfast (I also want Ryan's latest recs, but...) You may like: The World for Sale Money Men Narcotopia American Kingpin Treasury's War Dead in the Water Money Machine Sort of vibe similar
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
@typesfast Anything really - though I've been gravitating towards biographies, history, or business material. Last few books I've read are Ray Dalio's stuff.
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Josh Clemm
Josh Clemm@joshclemm·
Open sourcing something fun from @Dropbox: Witchcraft. It's a local search engine built in Rust with no API keys or vector DB required. Think: ColBERT / late interaction style retrieval, but packaged to run locally (perfect for coding agents). Let's dive in👇
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
@JesseTinsley @garrytan Another data point - I quit a Bay Area startup with 7 figure comp because the CEO was a psychopath. Not figuratively, literally. Life is too short to be completely miserable.
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Jesse Tinsley
Jesse Tinsley@JesseTinsley·
One of the biggest misconceptions in tech is that great engineers can always be bought. They cannot. Back in 2018 I introduced my now cofounder and CTO Ben to a founder who had already built multiple unicorns. They needed a VP of Engineering to run the entire product, design, and engineering org. The conversations went great. Then the founder made a massive 7 figure annual offer. Real cash. Real liquid equity. Ben passed… Why? “I am just not excited about the sector.” So the founder came back with an even crazier offer. 8 figures annually. Basically: name your price. Ben still said no. That story stuck with me because it taught a lesson a lot of founders learn the hard way: The best engineers are often not for sale. If they do not believe in the product, mission, or problem no compensation package can force conviction.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier

Me trying to close a hire

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Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen@typesfast·
Guys, relax, the only risk in transiting the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran will shoot a missile at your ship. Otherwise it's open for transit. An all-time quote from our Secretary of War.
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Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen@typesfast·
Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium. Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors. Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. 🧵
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Marisa Sweeney
Marisa Sweeney@sweenenergy·
We need @shell to address the 24/7 trespassing deterrent that blares from its shuttered station, audible from 300+ homes in our area in JLS Oakland. It is a total public nuisance and I’m sure harming business for our locally owned mezcaleria across the street. SO unacceptable!
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
Tried TaskRabbit for the first time in years. Guy 1: rushed and chipped our furniture. Guy 2: spoke zero English, refused the main job, made inappropriate advances toward a family member. Guy 3: visibly stoned. All $60-80/hr. Already reported. Is this what TaskRabbit is now?
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
Brutal takedown. The whole thing is truly comical... "If you had to precision-design a policy to showcase the Trump administration’s shortcomings, the IEEPA tariff saga would be it." ft.com/content/57d9ad…
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
@marty_kausas Jack London Square is legit. I can walk to SF, via Bart or ferry, in about 25 mins. ~1,600 sqft for ~$3.5k a month.
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Marty Kausas
Marty Kausas@marty_kausas·
SF rent is now $3K/month/room 🤯 Advith, Robert, and I need to move. Our current place is $1.8K/person, and every other building in SoMa is either booked out or going to cost us $3-4K/person. My hypothesis is this is because so many AI companies are fully in-person in SF again (like us).
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
@zanehengsperger @garrytan What exactly do you guys do? I have a rough idea from your site, but it's not 100% clear. For context, I grew up in Detroit and worked at a machine shop for awhile.
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Zane Hengsperger
Zane Hengsperger@zanehengsperger·
What a crazy 2025 it has been >under 6 months ago get into YC/start nox same day >open factory in Detroit >buy saw >buy material >supply a few shops >those shops ask for more metal >more shops ask for metal >build software to kill the mundane work by 5x >pull some late nights cutting tons of metal >grind to our first revenue goal >have large competitor try to cut off our supply >then triple that revenue in the last 4 weeks 2026 & 2027 are looking so exciting. Almost doubling our team size in Jan-Feb. Automation is going to make us so much faster and cheaper with less downtime. Software and AI is doing the same. I can't wait for what's next. One thing remains insanely clear which is our mission. We want to make American manufacturers more cost competitive and much faster. Too much of the cost and time of metals is caught up in service centers. Over $100B of metals goes through service centers ea year in the US. If you want to join our team. DM me.
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
Seems like the tide is turning for OpenAI. Was in NYC last week and multiple startup execs stated they are not using OpenAI, because they don't trust Sam Altman. ft.com/content/23e54a…
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Michael Frye
Michael Frye@_mfrye·
Some alpha. Hearing of a number of companies that are migrating from AWS to GCP. Includes Bay Area startups. I'm doing the same with my company. AWS support has been horrible the last year and GCP made us an offer we couldn't refuse.
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