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Today I’m excited to share a little about the new company I’ve been working on:
Gestalt is the best way for businesses to deeply understand people.
In many ways, I view Gestalt as a Human Data Interface — a new kind of tool that reimagines how we think about data as humans,
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@cory
@LittleCupcakeny
you're putting a family-owned bakery on blast because they (politely) wouldn't accommodate a last minute assertive request to rent out late at night?
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Some of the greatest minds in the world are working at OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, etc.
Why is the best interface they’ve come up with for chatting with AI an unsearchable, flat list of conversations?
Why aren’t they mapping the ideas from your conversations?
Why aren’t
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Working 16 hours a day on your own thing is so much easier than working 8 hours a day on someone else’s
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Got mugged on a late night run yesterday. I’m OK, but a little shaken up.
The ER nurse (checked me for a concussion) told me that assaults are way up and they heard the exact same story a half dozen other times this week. She attributed it to restlessness around the pandemic.
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@noahsfriedman
@Equinox
Meanwhile, there is a 24/7 Apple Store in New York.
Genius Bar at 3am? ✅
Gym at 11pm? 🚫
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Some professional news ~
So excited to share Bayes with y'all. It's a new, creative tool for thinking and speaking with data.
It's what I've been working on since leaving Twitter 10 months ago.
Why isn’t data more human?
Data is a superpower when you know how to use it. But data is alien, spreadsheets aren’t human. Long rows and columns of black and white text on a screen just don’t mean much to us.
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@nikitabier
This isn’t quite right. Modern dating apps are gambling products — basically slot machines. They keep you hooked by promising a reward, tease that reward, sell boosts which increase your odds (but never too much), and the house always wins.
The endless gallery isn’t the cause,
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Some news—
Today we're announcing that Bayes, the company I co-founded in 2019 with
@jrwoodbridge
, has been acquired by Airtable! I could not be more excited to contribute to a product I love, and to continue the work of making data more human.
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Today marks exactly one year to the day since I "accidentally" moved to Israel
I always felt a little out of place living in NYC and SF, but in Israel I experienced a profound sense of belonging. Over the past few months, I've been learning Hebrew, and working towards finalizing
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I’m so unbelievably bullish on what I’m building.
It feels like I’ve discovered some kind of secret.
So either I’m completely delusional, or going to be a billionaire. No middle ground.
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@wolfejosh
even if one were to believe in almost every wacky conspiracy theory about Israel/Jews, it still boggles my mind how anyone could see this war as some kind of attack on LGBT people
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It would be pretty cool if you could become a partial owner of your local cafe/pub/hangout easily.
Costco/REI for hanging out.
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@growing_daniel
Since this genocide supposedly began in 1948, the Palestinian population has grown 800%. I'm all for speaking about the plight of innocent Palestinian people, but calling it a "genocide", or "an open-air prison", or an "apartheid" are just incorrect terms that muddy the point.
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I could scream this from the rooftops
a brief summary and reflection on my evil right wing superspreader event, and a few words on the importance of living in real life
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An honest social post—COVID has been really hard on me.
❌ 🧛🏻 I’m nocturnal and never see the sun
❌ 🏃🏼♂️ I don’t exercise or go outside
❌ 🙅🏼♂️ I’m an extrovert and haven’t talked to my friends in months
❌ 💇🏼♂️ I desperately need a haircut
❌👨🏼💻 My productivity has plummeted
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My Opa passed away yesterday from Covid. Not only was he my biggest career role model—an entrepreneur and engineer in his own right, having founded a fintech company in Hawaii back when computers filled rooms—he demonstrated how to live a full, balanced life filled with love.
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@paddycosgrave
@amitkarp
You’re sharing how successful your tech conference is going to be despite your tone-deaf moral-equivalence remarks is disgusting. Israeli founders, investors, and employees are out there fighting actual *terrorists* for their lives and the lives of their families. Just stop.
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I'm excited to share that I'll be joining Twitter this fall as an APM! I can think of no better way to start my career than to learn from the people behind a product that has had such a massive impact on my life. I'm humbled to have the opportunity to contribute to its future.
When I first started using Twitter ~9 years ago, I had no idea the impact it would have on my life.
A thread:
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I just can’t get over how delightful building software is these days.
Tools like
@vercel
,
@supabase
,
@modal_labs
,
@_hex_tech
, and
@cursor_ai
are just straight up magic.
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Every week we see a new “AI-powered data analyst” that lets you skip SQL and ask questions in plain English.
None of them have a convincing answer to how they decide if the plain English OR means XOR or not.
1. SQL was created for a reason
2. Writing it was never the hard part
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can we talk about how bimonthly means both twice a month and every other month?
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This is your sign to set up SOS on your phone. I actually was able to activate it as I ran away (not sure how), but it was out of date and ended up texting an old number my location every few minutes…
Obviously the police didn’t answer 911, lol
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The best companies build products that customers use all day, every day — we basically live in them.
Designers live in Figma.
Traders live in Bloomberg Terminal.
HR lives in Rippling.
Analysts live in Tableau.
Engineers live in AutoCAD.
Now think about what you're building.
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Crypto is just people wanting to get rich for not doing anything but being early to something. They didn’t create more value, they just got their first. Yes, ownership of your work-product matters, but being first isn’t work-product.
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Life Update (Part 2):
After Sicily, I traveled to Berlin and then to Tel Aviv intending to continue going east into Asia afterwards.
However, after a week in Tel Aviv, I lost interest in traveling further or moving back to New York for the foreseeable future.
This is home now.
Some life updates for the Jewish new year (5783):
I’ve left my job and New York (for now) to travel the world and find new inspiration.
I’ve hit Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Copenhagen, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Rome, Naples, and Sicily on this trip so far.
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@Indian_Bronson
This shows a profound lack of understanding for how Israel has been perceived at different points in history. It’s not Israel had wide support among Americans in the past, and the trend is down. This happens pretty much every time there’s a conflict/war there.
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First day
@Twitter
! 😁
Best day of the year! Super stoked to welcome our third and largest ever cohort of APMs to the
@twitter
APM family today!
@heylauragao
@isabellaturch
@tthump14
@willium
@jtinachen
@tevmick
@YehongZhu
we can’t wait to meet you! cc:
@pandemona
@kcoleman
@kayvz
@justhouser
@KCPacini
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@sarahnadav
Woah, what? The vast majority of diaspora Jews support Israel. Many have friends and family in Israel.
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What did you glamorize as a kid, but after doing it as an adult realized it wasn’t great at all?
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Some life updates for the Jewish new year (5783):
I’ve left my job and New York (for now) to travel the world and find new inspiration.
I’ve hit Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Copenhagen, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Rome, Naples, and Sicily on this trip so far.
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Some actual app names (targeted at teens, obviously): tbh, ttyl, omg, idk, lmk, wya, yolo... I'm probably missing some...
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In honor of it being National Coming Out Day I think I should tell you all that I am—and this is true—not straight❕
Am I gay? No.
Bi? Also no.
Just vibing over here, don’t feel the need to label my love
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It’s very hard to think of anyone as universally beloved and respected as
@sama
. By both people who know him and those who don’t. By his competitors and his ex-partners.
He helped my career, yes, but he also made time to be there for me personally when I was at my lowest.
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Being in New York as a Californian is an endless quest of pretending to enjoy Mexican food your friends *insist* is going to be good, but actually sucks.
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AirPods + Audible bring me back to my childhood—carrying a book everywhere so I can get a couple pages in while waiting in line, riding the bus, whatever. It’s that but 10x better.
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@Indian_Bronson
Also I’m really not sure what you mean by that list. Israel may be fragmented politically, but nationalism is nearly universal. Technologically, they’re likely to be even more relevant going forward (cybersecurity, AI, nuclear triad, advanced weaponry).
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This week alone, I feel like I lost two different long-term friends who I really believed cared about me.
One hugged me while I cried in the week after October 7th. This week she claimed the war was a false flag because of a YouTube video she saw.
The other told me I shouldn’t
WATCH: Susanne DeWitt, an 89 year-old Holocaust survivor who was arrested and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp at age 4, was repeatedly heckled by demonstrators as she spoke in favor of the City of Berkeley's Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation.
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@shaunmmaguire
💯 Ironically, in my experience people from the region mostly agree on the facts. For them the conflict is about honor, tit-for-tat safety, and (inarguable) religious beliefs.
It’s people outside Israel/ME who clearly have no idea what half of the words they say even mean.
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@Indian_Bronson
This is also just not evidenced by polls today, at all. The loud far-left and far-right are clearly anti-Israel, but the majority of Americans in general perceive Israel as an ally. This is true for nearly anyone who remembers 9/11, and even moreso of evangelical Christians.
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@shaunmmaguire
It's shocking how hard it is to find any mention of this in the western media, despite the evidence. I think it's because no one was hurt by the rockets. Why? Because Israel doesn't use its own people as shields and moved hospital operations underground when the attacks started.
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Am I the only person who misses school because of the classes?
Like the people were great, but what I wouldn’t give for a Socratic seminar, an engaging lecture, or a well written textbook.
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@heylauragao
I HATE that trope! It's everywhere, and I don't think we call it out enough. I used to think it was just that the authors were making themselves the protagonist, but it happens just as much with female authors.
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Update: this fucked me up way more than I thought—
tonight, I panicked every time someone was behind me or brushed around me as I walked home from dinner
Got mugged on a late night run yesterday. I’m OK, but a little shaken up.
The ER nurse (checked me for a concussion) told me that assaults are way up and they heard the exact same story a half dozen other times this week. She attributed it to restlessness around the pandemic.
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Selling a bunch of MacBook Pros from Bayes — slide into the DMs if any of you want some discounted hardware :)
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I still feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I hear about crypto. I think I get it, but also I don't get it at all. Why are we SO concerned with ownership that we need cryptographic solutions? We have courts, and there's so much more to art than being able to prove who owns it.
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Who wants to meet and talk me out of starting another company?
SF: Apr 5–10*
Tahoe: Apr 10–12
NYC: Apr 12–21
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Person on flight: I work at Microsoft
Person next to them: oh cool, I work at Amazon
Can you tell I’m flying to Seattle?
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@shriyanevatia
I usually run on the west side highway, but last night I needed to clear my head so I did a long run I’ve never done before. I didn’t realize how empty the parks on the east side are at night…
Happened around 10:30pm in the park under the Williamsburg bridge.
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Surprised by how amazing New York has been for my both my mental and physical health.
Eating better, working out more, and feeling energized by everyone I meet!
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Signed a lease on a place in the West Village today! 🛫
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It's fun to be a product manager for your free time, until you start to work as a product manager. Then, your whole life is just product management. There's some really nice about occasionally having someone else drive things—even if it's just "what are we doing for dinner?"
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Fun fact: NPS ® is a trademarked question.
You need to license the name and methodology from Bain & Co, who invented it out of thin air over 20 years ago.
⅔ of Fortune 1000 companies swear by it.
And yet, it’s been shown to not accurately predict *anything*.
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Apparently Lyft has been hiding these fantastic hybrid dockless/docked electric bikes in Oakland. They ride way better than JUMP or the old GoBikes.
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What if instead of getting a random day off in February to honor presidents, we got election day off?
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I’ve been so happy and productive lately, and just moved all my stuff into my new place today — I’m so hyped about life right now.
What should I do to fuck it up?
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If I see another AI for Customer Support or Text-to-SQL product, I’m going to flip a table.
Why are so many smart people coming up with the same two ideas?
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I thought it’d be the northeast winter in a couple months that ended my running outside, but yeah, I think I’m going to stick to treadmills for awhile…
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@Pavel_Asparagus
You only need one. Playing it like a numbers game optimizes for getting a lot of choices. Choice is the thief of joy. Way better to date/live organically and fully
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At first it felt kind of pedantic, but now I can't help but appreciate the habit it has formed for me.
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I'm constantly discovering that everyone I know, knows eachother, and I think that's amazing
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HIRING —
We're looking for someone who loves exploring novel datasets, working with messy data, and building data pipelines.
Open to all levels of experience /
Full Time or Contract /
In-person in NYC or Remote!
Apply by DM or will @ gestalt
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A guy came up to me and asked for the time. So, i pulled my phone out and told him. As I did, his friend (who was hiding in a bush) hit me from behind on the side of my head. Then they both proceeded to chase me as I ran looking for help.
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Unpopular opinion: I hate Fridays. I have for as long as I can remember. There’s lots of pressure to go out and socialize (esp while in college) but all I’m here for is a poorly scheduled evening nap and an accidentally autoplaying YouTube playlist of late show interviews.
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@mikekarnj
Many great companies come from tarpits. Uber. Stripe. Snowflake. Airbnb. Reddit. Slack.
It’s a tarpit until it’s not.
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I get insane amounts of spam calls that often come from numbers super similar to my own. How is this such a big problem still?
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I know this is crazy, but hear me out:
what if the best way to break golden handcuffs was to just pay engineers at startups more?
Billion dollar idea 💡
Solve the “it’s difficult to hire engineering talent” at startups problem
How?
Create a program that allows devs stuck in corporate jobs get a taste of working at startups via running hackathons or build sprints
Basically break the golden hand cuffs
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The longer I spend in New York, the less tolerant I am of California social behavior. Not about everything being tentative and vague until it happens or people not telling it to you straight. It took me a few months to adjust—now I've just dropped my expectations for newcomers
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@dandanbang0
they each have ~billions of dollars of capital and fairly large product (engineering, management, design) teams from what I understand
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He was also a German Jew, who narrowly escaped persecution by way of some of the last passages out of Nazi Germany immediately following Kristallnacht. I will never forget the obstacles he overcame and adversity he faced so that I wouldn’t have to.
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@businessbarista
Microsoft isn’t just missing, it’s the GOAT
Zune, Windows 10, Windows Phone
to
Surface Pro/Book, Azure, OpenAI
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You, or your friend, should date me:
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I signed up to use
@NotionHQ
as a basic knowledgebase for my new startup a few months ago.
I really only needed it to manage some basic documents for a team of 1 person, with a couple advisors added to review some notes.
I was charged $874.75.
For one person.
Barely using
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@williamlegate
@sama
First of all, they’re strongly related, when Israel is the only Jewish country. The vast majority of Jews are zionists.
Secondly, “I see tons people” is a very Trump like speaking pattern.
Thirdly, anti-Semitism, absent anti-Zionism, is extremely prevalent right now. Just
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