lunch with jason, ceo of discord, and what made it a great experience — lunch and learns can either be more stale than leftover’s meal when stuck in a slide show or lively and interactive scaling to a room of 20+ strangers. this one was the latter. matt mochary hosted a week full of lunches and dinners with different founders he’s worked with, inviting…

exploring the social physics of distributed programming — the best all day community experience i’ve been to was an unconference. i helped volunteer at mit’s tough tech summit run by the engine, which assembled 200+ builders across 4 tracks and 25 different discussions for a full day. …

keynote | nov 2023 — there has not been a release as big as the iphone in 2007 until today. sam altman, ceo of open ai, hosted their first developers’ day sharing big updates to features and plans for their ai models. this marks one year since the chat gpt interface that broke the internet…

making large language models better with a layer of virtual memory management — computer operating systems have memory management enabling new functions beyond what the physical memory can do. there is a virtual layer that enables multitasking, caching, and protection against malicious applications. without the operating system managing memory, computer processing would be severely limited. right now large language models (LLMs) have that…

y combinator demo days pack in startups like the super bowl does its commercials: millions of dollars of value in minutes trying to win over the audience. this works as a menu option to filter follow ups. it trades convenience for understanding. from 5 minute demo day pitches to 8…

debriefing the 24 hour climate hardware hack during sf climate week 2023 🌎+ 🤖+ ⌛ = ❤️ we hosted a weekend long hackathon with a big challenge (climate), tools of choice (hardware), and all in a weekend (24hr) to build things that matter. two weeks after the hack finished, people…

if i could go back and tell my 17 y/o a few things they would include 3 things to 10x your journey 1. play your own game. with a strong herd mentality causing people to decide what to do, belonging in a social setting is often unconsciously decided. the two main games played throughout school are grades and parties. markers of…

nine of my favorite ideas from this last year as a program director at tks. swap finite games for infinite ones. long term thinking changes short term decisions. twitter thread → maintain a day one mindset. hungry, curious, and experimenting while being willing to fail. bezos perspective → build in…

A book summary of his Pyramid of Success. — Hailed as the top college basketball coach in the 20th century, Wooden led his teams with a 80% win to loss ratio across 40 seasons. He won 10 NCAA championships and had 4 undefeated seasons. While winning championships is the public’s metric of success, Wooden understood the importance of having…