crazy thing i learned while on a texas data center construction site: senior power people will arrive for work for the day at 12AM. yes, that's before i go to bed some nights.

heat is the biggest unpriced cost in the physical economy. we monitor server racks to a tenth of a degree and monitor almost no workers. "drink water and take breaks" is a 1970s answer

in sf and nyc you're trained to act like they have every answer figured out. then you walk onto a jobsite in texas, and suddenly you're out of place and realize you're just a young kid with a dream and too much unearned hubris. but being humble is how you connect with people. and feeling young, or out of place (too female for me, at times), that's a sign that you're pushing the boundaries and growing.

oh you care about taste?? really? then show me your apartment.

The most successful company in my category sells primarily to furries, and yet 2.4B people experience the issue in solving at work…. Can you guess what I’m building?

i gave a guest lecture today at a mid-tier college and the kids are cooked. no light in their eyes. no focus. no independent thought.

the people are blissfully unaware of what super el niño will mean for them

someone broke into my office in soma and stole a $15,000 package. i tell this to people and they say "haha classic sf." guys this is not normal.

as a founder is it acceptable to skip sf tech week? i really really want to

if instagram is for girls and twitter is for boys, and sf runs on twitter and la runs on instagram, does that mean sf is a male city and la is a female city?

every time someone says "i'm making the OS for x," i immediately tune it out. a much better approach is to describe the specific pain point in someone's day that necessitates the simple solution provided

complicated feelings about sf, but then you wake up, walk out for a coffee, and get a view like this. not an ai billboard in sight. maybe it ain't so bad after all.

Decorating my office ft. 60 sqft American flag – at San Francisco, CA