Mike Manning

Some news! Today is my last day on the @a16zcrypto comms team. After a fulfilling 4.5 years here, I'm ready for my next challenge, and gonna take some time to figure out what that is. If we haven't talked in a while, hit me up! A huge thank you to @cdixon @alive_eth @eddylazzarin @kimbatronic and all my other colleagues for the incredible opportunity and experience. 🙏 To the founders and marketing leads at our portcos that I was fortunate enough to support: keep on building. You've got a fan for life 👏

@BrewPack8 We’re a streaky team this year

PUT IT IN THE HOLSTER BREWERS WIN 4TH IN A ROW

Impressive @worldnetwork World ID launch event in SF this morning, including surprise guest Anderson .Paak. First time I’ve seen a CEO join an event from their hospital bed! Hope @alexblania’s hand heals quickly 🏥

@itseieio How could you turn away

this takes so long to finish lol did people always watch it till the end

@OptaSTATS .167 slug! Good lord

Angels hitters in plate appearances immediately following an Ohtani IBB during his time with them: .148 BA .207 OBP .167 SLG

Dodgers hitters in plate appearances immediately following a Shohei Ohtani IBB since he joined the team (reg & post): .457 BA .535 OBP .714 SLG No other MLB team in last 50 years has had a .400/.500/.700 slash line immediately following an IBB to a specific player (min. 40 PA).

@CyrtHogg Striking out in that spot was unconscionable. It’s been a full week since the Brewers scored on anything other than a HR

Luis Rengifo is 0 for his last 17.

@rhackett @Tim_Org Amazing, congrats guys! Can’t wait to read it

Hey everyone, some personal news I’m really excited about... For the past few months I’ve been working on a book proposal with my friend and colleague Tim Sullivan (@Tim_Org). We’re excited to share that it’s just been acquired by Crown Currency at Penguin Random House! We’re calling it (for now) Inside The Machine: How Computer Science Rewired Everything. Most of us talk about tech in terms of the shiny stuff — apps, gadgets, platforms, and the people who built them. But this misses a bigger, more interesting story. Computer science didn't just hand us new tools. It changed how we think about problems in the first place — what even counts as a problem, what looks like a solution, what we optimize for, and what we ignore. Over time, this way of thinking has seeped outward and saturated everything else. You see it in markets that run like algorithms instead of human institutions, in media that’s tuned for engagement, in companies organized more like software than trad hierarchies. Even in the way people talk: inputs, outputs, signals, noise, etc. Once you start noticing it, it’s hard to stop seeing it everywhere. Tim and I have spent years separately reporting on tech, business, science, and economics, and then also as editors on the a16z crypto editorial team. Throughout, we kept running into the same big question: what happens when the logic of computing becomes the logic of society? This book is our personal attempt to answer that — to trace how these ideas spread (often without us realizing) and how they’ve reshaped the systems we all live with, including the tradeoffs that come with them. We’re still super early in the process, but we’re thrilled it’s happening. If you want to follow along as the book comes together, we’d love that. In the meantime, tell us: what’s your favorite example you’ve seen of computer science thinking sneaking into everyday life? Could be in business, politics, dating, whatever — we'd love to know what you all notice.

@VirtualElena The relationship builds itself at that point

@ravmike COME AND SEE (1985) and chill

@yelichfans Luis Lara time? He's a switch hitter with a .950 OPS at Triple-A. I'd rather have him than Perkins or Matos rn

Jake Bauers gets a gold star ⭐️ Everyone else needs to hit the batting cages.

Congress has worked tirelessly to give builders the rules they need. It’s time for members of the Senate on both sides to hammer out the final details of the Clarity Act. When rules are defined, both consumers and entrepreneurs win.  The GENIUS Act unlocked stablecoin innovation. The Clarity Act can do the same across crypto.

@CyrtHogg Ump didn’t do him any favors

Shane Drohan threw 28 of 63 pitches for strikes. That's the second-lowest strike percentage by any Brewers pitcher with at least 50 pitches thrown in a single game in the pitch tracking era (since 2008).

hands down one of the best things to do in SF all summer its free, it’s in a redwood grove. the vibes are so good. just go.

@SantaClaraHoops Happy for him but bummed that he’s not running it back for SCU

go be great AG 🙌 santaclarabroncos.com/news/2026/4/7/…

@JadezTradez @JomboyMedia So what caused the huge rip in Hamilton's pant leg?

@JomboyMedia He didn’t even get cleated. Spam the pause button. He barely gets touched dudes being a baby.

Willson Contreras didn't like being hit by Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff He then took a hard slide into second base the next at-bat

@PavlovicNBCS I was surprised the Giants DFA’d him — he’s still only 24. My understanding is that he was out of options, and am genuinely wondering if that was mismanagement by the Giants sending him back and forth from the minors too frequently over the past few years?

Over in the NL Central, Luis Matos throwing a runner out at the plate to help Kyle Harrison:

Chase DeLauter hit more HRs in his first 26 career ABs than the whole Giants team has hit in 9 games so far

Giants team OPS leaders 🤢

51 being divisible by 3 is so unsettling. When clearly it has prime number vibes

I’m at my 4th Giants game of the year, and they’ve now been outscored 28-3

@SlangsOnSports Ted “I’m not the Unabomber” Kazanski