Melissa Verrilli

@jess @aunder On point for @Adverbvc color scheme ✅

@aunder “don’t drink my green juice!” Me 3 mins later fumbling our bag of 30 DoorDash orders for our coworking startup teams. 🙊

@aunder @jess Ha share the fact! 👀

One thing about having a cofounder is that you take so many meetings together that you can repeat minute details of each other's lives. The longer you work together the less often you hear something new, but today I got a new @jess factoid

@NickSattele interesting! what website shows that info?

@cruickshank @SeaPubSchools My census tract (west of broadway, north of Olive) already has zero people under 18. If there was no school walking distance I’d expect nearby tracts to decrease too

Private schools are growing on Capitol Hill so what's @SeaPubSchools's response? Likely it's going to be closing the Hill's only elementary school (Stevens) rather than ask families why they're not enrolling in SPS. SPS does not seem interested in reversing enrollment decline.

@retraC__ Once you have a group of 4 that understand euchre it’s undoubtedly the greatest card game

The best place to relax is near water. After just 2 minutes of viewing water outdoors, blood pressure and heart rate drop. It's more calming to look at a lake, pool, or stream than trees or grass. Beaches are popular for a reason. Wider bodies of water bring more tranquility.

@jess @aragon_ai 🤩

Best AI headshots I’ve found so far: @aragon_ai. They train on 6 photos and give you 100 versions (with great hair imho!).

Meta is pushing harder to compete with ChatGPT by putting its AI assistant everywhere. You're going to start seeing it in the search boxes of Instagram and Facebook. There's now a standalone web app. Google Search has been integrated. And the first two Llama 3 models are being released ahead of a 400 billion parameter, multimodal version that's being trained. "At this point, our goal is not to compete with the open source models,” Mark Zuckerberg told me. “It’s to compete with everything out there and to be the leading AI in the world." theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…

Why is enrollment declining in Seattle Public Schools? Reasons pondered in this Seattle Times piece: - low birthrates - migration - "just fewer kids in Seattle" - high housing costs in Seattle NOT mentioned in this Seattle Times piece: - closing the district to in-person learning longer than any district in the world except SF, which "beat" SPS by a couple weeks - decision to tear down advanced/accelerated cohorts - a focus on "equity" over helping each child become their very best - pedagogy gone crazy, with a proposed woke math curriculum so bizarre it made national news - a school board so dysfunctional its director sued the district - a five-year strategic plan in 2019 whose goals focused pretty much exclusively on black males (I'm not joking, look at the SPS's "Strategic Plan" website) - safety concerns, with shootings in recent years near school grounds - ignoring repeated calls by Broadview-Thompson parents to intervene in an encampment near school grounds - a teachers union so intransigent that 70%+ of members voted NOT to return to work during the pandemic even after given vaccination prioritization in February of 2021, and one which went on strike in September 2022

Worth reading or rereading: The Undoing Project, about Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, by the amazing Michael Lewis. It's astonishingly good, and hilarious, and quite moving. amazon.com/Undoing-Projec…

@jess 👏🏻👏🏻 Start with basic annual exams: physical, derm, eyes, dental, and all related lab tests from PCP (e.g. CBC, A1c, comprehensive metabolic panel, Iron, Vitamins B, D, Lipid profile, etc.)

New year and I want to be healthier. Original, I know! What’s the best way to understand your current health? Which indicators and tests on “age” are worth doing? Should I see a functional medicine doctor?

Happy New Year! And day 1 in a new job as in-house counsel on Meta's Legal AI team, focusing on Privacy and AI Regulations, in the Seattle office. Super excited to take on this role!

@eladgil Euchre ♠️

@thesamparr @ShaanVP Made possible by: @raechellambert @getriver_io 🙌🏼

1000 my first million fans organized meetups in every continent tonight in like 50 cities. Sydney. Singapore. Dubai. NYC. England. Everywhere. Wild!!! Thank you everyone for being part of @ShaanVP and I tribe. We love you.

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died at the age of 93. @JudyWoodruff looks back on her life and legacy.

@thesamparr I’m in! @getriver_io

Hey...My First Million listeners... Want to host an MFM meetup...or attend one? Great. you can: app.getriver.io/mfm

@tdrobbo That was quick! 🦃

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

@raechellambert @nickgraynews I just joined F45! Needed winter motivation, and upbeat music 💪🏼

@nickgraynews I wasn't great at doing the gym until I joined F45. I like the group session, 45 minutes, pumping music, they always switch it up. Seeing really good results (down 10 pounds and getting way stronger).

Sometimes I go to the gym and barely get past my warmup Other times it takes me 2 hours to do a 30 mins workout I’m not proud of those But at least I showed up

@JennyVANCAN @Uber Same 😏

Does @Uber not work in LA anymore?? Waited 35 minutes for a driver and nothing. This has happened the last few times I’ve tried to use the app. Anyone else??

@SecretaryPete @FAANews No one but the authorized on duty pilots should be allowed in the cockpit

I am grateful for the professional flight crew and air traffic controllers who stepped up to guide this plane safely to Portland. FAA supports law enforcement in their response and will be focused on any safety considerations for the future that emerge from investigations.