Elena
@VirtualElena
building @merit_systems | past investing @a16z
1/ I went to Daytona last week and wrote about marriage, masculinity, birth rates, and men doing extremely difficult CrossFit Workouts. Link in next post
found the most quintessentially @FT story ever written: turmoil in the butler labor market after wealthy Brits flee the new UK tax regime
a couple weeks ago @samrags_ came to my desk and said “it’s time to make a launch video for the Terminal.” no one on the team had made a launch video before. soon we were off to the races with script drafts, storyboards, hiring a film crew and editor, to tell the story of a…
Today, we’re introducing the Terminal. Pay anyone and any project on Github.
very proud of what we’re building at @merit_systems. let’s make software multiplayer.
Today, we’re introducing the Terminal. Pay anyone and any project on Github.
██████████▒▒ loading the Terminal. Releasing tomorrow.
thought this was the most interesting moment in the Thiel / Douthat conversation (instead of like, the antichrist stuff). "2024 is the year where Elon stopped believing in Mars, not as a silly science tech project, but as a political project."
nodding while walking around midtown Manhattan listening to Peter Thiel tell Ross Douthat about technological and cultural stagnation
haven't stopped thinking about it since reading this
Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk. I wrote about that visual style you're seeing everywhere. paperclip-punk: what it is, who's doing it, how it outruns AI panic, how Vercel is probably responsible, and why Cloudflare is doing it best. Link below:
at La Guardia right now. flight is currently 2 hours delayed “due to weather” (?!?!)
no one ships with the velocity of @jsonhedman
Excited to share Toolkit, a project I built for @theo’s T3 Cloneathon Mix-and-match GitHub data, Notion, Memory, Code Interpreter, and much more through an interactive chat Fully open source and looking for more Toolkit developers! Details below…
my favorite version of this is banks renaming their risk management teams to “risk optimization” (though pretty sure credit suisse did this first, lesson in that)
big opportunity for ai labs to rename their safety teams to Danger Teams™️. way more aura. higher likelihood of attracting the type of person that would red team / hack system
seems pretty clear that stripe is going to launch their own stablecoin product as soon as there’s legal clarity to do so
I didn’t realize you could use dick-swing as a verb. Thank you for your service @VirtualElena.
there was a period from like 2015-2021 where every film & novel released was described as “quietly devastating” wish there was a liquid market for trading the popularity of linguistic cliches, would be absolutely crushing it
