VP of Product Design @datadoghq. Try my product.
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2007
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Steve Boak retweeted
Connie Chan has quiet quit the Board of Supervisors.
She left every active board committee to campaign full-time, leaving District 1 without a supervisor focused on San Francisco.
Chan should serve the district she was elected to represent, or resign.
growsf.org/news/2026-08-28-c…
Steve Boak retweeted
Our campaign created this chatbot, and clearly labeled it as a parody, to highlight Supervisor Chan’s abysmal record on affordable housing, public transportation, education, and San Francisco’s economic recovery. These are critical issues for San Francisco’s future, and the chatbot was designed to focus only on her record.
To deflect from Chan’s awful record of obstruction and inaction, her campaign bombarded the chatbot with repeated malicious questions — about her accent, her race, her citizenship — in order to generate a false narrative they could peddle to the media. The chatbot refused them every time.
Having failed at that effort, Chan’s endorsers, including Speaker Emerita Pelosi, are now making baseless claims about the chatbot, which is clearly labeled as a parody. No reasonable person would believe the website is from Connie Chan. Chan and her supporters are aggressively trying to delegitimize the website precisely because they know it effectively communicates Chan’s horrible record on housing and so many other key issues.
This is classic deflection. San Franciscans deserve accurate information about her record. The chatbot makes that record easy to see.
It is particularly ironic that Speaker Emerita Pelosi is expressing concern about AI, when Speaker Emerita Pelosi played a key role, aligned with Big Tech, in killing my landmark AI safety bill, Senate Bill 1047, a bill that was broadly supported by pro-AI regulation advocates, labor unions, national security experts, biosecurity experts, and many progressive leaders.
As the only candidate in this race who has regulated AI corporations, I look forward to taking that fight to Congress to ensure AI serves people and not vice versa.
Steve Boak retweeted
Me:
1997-2026: Lived in San Francisco
1997-2026: Deeply involved in the San Francisco community
1997-2026: Voted in San Francisco (no decade-long break)
No need for a book-length tweet to explain.
2009: Moved to San Francisco.
2012-2014: I was living/working in SF part time (was still at Stripe much of this time) as my wife (then girlfriend) was finishing school and then working in NY and on assignment abroad. I was trying to keep our long distance relationship alive, and I’m glad I did. I bought a home here in 2013 because this is where we always wanted to build our lives.
2015-2019: Working for Bernie/AOC & founding Justice Dems, bouncing around campaign HQs and in Congress. Still came back home to SF often as this is where my community was.
2019-present: Living back in the city full-time. I’ve raised a school-aged daughter here.
I feel really lucky to have had the opportunity to do the work I did, and to be able to keep my family together. But this is consistent with what I told you over the phone. If you add the years up, yes, it is over a decade of living in San Francisco.
Steve Boak retweeted
BREAKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed a repeal of the state’s “Right to Work” bill in to law.
This is the first repeal of the anti-union and anti-worker legislation anywhere in the U.S. in 60 years. It’s a huge victory for working people.
Steve Boak retweeted
🎙️New episode alert! Tune in to the latest episode of our Product Design Bits series to hear Kim & Mahya, design leaders at Datadog & @aircall, share tips on navigating your first 90 days in a new leadership role. Listen now -bit.ly/407t63c #ProductDesign #Podcast
This shell script has been running for a day and a half and is only 1/4 done. Is there no better way to delete glacier archives?
When you work on the dataviz team @datadoghq
Steve Boak retweeted
Do you ever feel that some cities are just more alive than others?
It's probably because they're "mixed-use".
This is a simple idea, but it changes everything...
We're proud to be making DRUIDS, the design system that powers @datadoghq, visible to the public. Check out the amazing post on the launch from @derekhowles, and the system itself at druids.datadoghq.com/ datadoghq.com/blog/engineeri…
Steve Boak retweeted
"a generous welfare state makes people not want to work"
(united states is the line on the bottom)
No one knows dev tools better than @heavybit. As a founder who went through it and saw first-hand how great they are at what the do, I was stoked to back them in Fund IV. See more of what they're doing for dev tools companies & founders here…
We're excited to announce our latest $80 million venture capital fund. We're expanding investment size to $500K-3M and scope to include early-stage devtool and enterprise software companies based anywhere in the world. bit.ly/3TXgMAa
