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past: 🏖️ @ticklebeach, 🧙♂️ @0xAdventures, @Square founding team
Joined January 2007
"I have an app idea, know any programmers?". "I have an idea for a song, know any musicians?". "I have an book idea, know any writers?".
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Programming is like. Get 68 people to write a book.Simultaneously.End is sort of vague.Change the topic twice.Pedantic people.Lots of Coffee.
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people are talking trash about "web3" as a term, . but having all my data on multiple websites is cool. and having websites compete on interfaces for the same data is rad.
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Whenever I find people that work in technology that hold no crypto, it makes me realize it hasn’t really hit yet. Like VCs will message me asking how to buy crypto. It’s going to squoze.
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the mac pro is the most well organized set of atoms you can buy for $52,599.
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it feels like SF is in an abusive relationship with tech. it blames tech for causing all the problems, but when tech tries to leave, gets angry and demands that it stay.
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Met a cranky angel investor who hated NFTs. Met a young programmer who realized they wanted to make art and was enabled by NFTs for the first time. Going to continue to hang with the artist.
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I had a dream I sent Bitcoin to my Tesla to buy groceries for me, but Bitcoin went up, and I had to take apart my car to get it back.
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I find it fascinating Netflix can spend 13 billion on content and I can see it for 8 dollars. So cool how that works.
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It’s weird that autocomplete can be absolute trash, and machine learning is about to obsolete a lot of people’s jobs, at the same time.
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If you’re ever bored in sf just ask someone “what’s a startup?” at a party and see how weird it gets.
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Programmers get paid to do two things: to find bugs and to write more bugs.
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Elon is mocking short traders. Imagine having a culture where they suggest the price and nobody says no.
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every time i finally read some classic literature, i find half a dozen ideas stolen by "thought leaders" of today.
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if you aren't @drewhouston level of cringe demoing a magic folder called @Dropbox at parties, on the floor. you're ngmi
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I spent the last year of my life working with 2 friends on a compression method for on chain 3d. today is the public mint
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casually speaking, i think it was a big mistake to tie american's savings/wealth to their home. incentives are to make housing as expensive as possible. puts older/incumbents people at a huge advantage.
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Rap genius but for crypto white papers. With real programmers and economists.
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IRL, single company owns most of the dating apps. imagine that in a sci-fi book? a company that can direct who you breed with.
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i'm talking to eth miners and their response is "what you're describing is 100% possible but nobody has done it before". found it, found the edge.
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“Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.” — Floyd Mayweather. This quote is amazing. Also, this literally explains how polarizing a group of people works to your advantage.
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just for fun NFT incoming. NFTs are rare and that’s cool, but can we do the opposite? An NFT that’s cool because everyone has it.
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“You either die a programmer or you live long enough to see yourself become the idea person.”.
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My friend is the most popular person at every party and I always thought they were just gifted amount of charming. Took me seven years to realize they approach a party like a show. They are performing. And so they never want to go to parties because it’s a lot of work.
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when square ipo'd at $9, the press was pretty pessimistic about square going up. meanwhile it hit $204 today.
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ok so from the founders group chats. - payroll is being missed (right now, in real time).- it looks first 250k is guaranteed, then you have a cert.- founders are being locked out of their bank account (unknown reasons).
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What're the pieces of software that may last forever?. My best answer is wikipedia and bitcoin.
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"I don't answer any question that is more than 20 words." .- Don Valentine. what a great way to avoid "questions" that are really speeches.
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i'm. starting to think of "programmer" as like a temporarily historical job. like . elevator operator.
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if you don't like figuring out your taxes, don't ever become an angel investor or crypto nerd.
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If you have an abundance mindset to opportunities, the world seems fun. If you scarcity mindset, every upset feels horrible.
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almost ALL sci-fi talks about blue collars being automated by machines. almost NO sci-fi talks about creatives being automated or supplemented.
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Now that we've convince people that code is actually currency. Feels like a door has been opened which can't be closed.
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Can someone make a virtual bookshelf of my kindle books for my zoom calls?.
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I’m so excited to share this link, my arms are trembling a bit: . We set out to make the most adorable NFT ever, and I watched as the artist (Andrew) and shape rotator (Chris) pushed each other way further than I expected.
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People will love you if you love what you do. Passion is fucking contagious.
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So are we going to be worried that every cough is corona for the next three years?.
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Covid entertainment prep list: Outbreak. 12 monkeys. Contagion. Resident evil. 28 days later. Zombie land. Shaun of the dead. World war z. I am legend.
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Reid Hoffman, a billionaire (?), has ads on his podcast. I feel like I’m missing something.
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Refound a classic. Benjamin Franklins guide for social distancing (and daily routines)
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founders don't believe this, but investors really want to be excited by your company. they really hope to go in the meeting and leave so excited to invest.
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If someone gives constructive criticism, cherish it. If they tease you for putting yourself out there. Burn their house. Salt their lands.
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Hanging with someone who thinks the moon is fake. Not moon landing, the moon itself.
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spent all night thinking about how attention is the limited resource of the future. and how memes are the breeding ground of attention.
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China: we quarantined the largest number of people ever and made new hospitals and factories specifically for this, but succeed. Italy, Iran, America: yeah but what should we do?.
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going to launch my first NFT tomorrow at 10am pst. it'll be free (you need eth for gas fees.).
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Can gpt3 summarize legal docs for me? Does that startup exist? Should I build this?.
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The next Silicon Valley may be Oakland. Or really any place where people can afford to live.
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My airpods just fell out of my ears. Hit the ground and scattered away. On a plane. But everyone saw it and so literally everyone got up and looked for a full 10minutes. under every bag for me. It was amazing. People giggled awkwardly. I love people.
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A lot of people in SF want to have a meeting, but if you suggest 7 or 8am. Or really anywhere further than a mile, they give up. Hustle.
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man, the NFT people are 50% getting this, and 50% angry about it. i've been tweeting about crypto for almost 10 years and this if the first tweet that has made people angry. i like NFTs. but also, NFTs are just getting started."this isn't even my final form".
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the trust network inside SV is deep. people making investments based on a couple text messages.
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If there was an Amazon, but I could only see reviews form people I knew personally. I'd shop there once a week.
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I was very prepared for quarantine, I’m way less prepared for “quarenpods” and this weird navigation of figuring out how risky your friends are.
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Remember buying a cd for 14 dollars and it was all the money you had and then it only had 1 good song, but it was worth it, sorta?.
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There was actually a person who invented accounting. TIL: before that people thought being 'good at money' was just luck or an act of god. Which leads me to invert: what do we still think is luck?.
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The two types of programmer: string concatenator and matrix multipliers . if you don't know which one you are, you're a string concatenator.
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