Brian Sowards (he/they)

Person I know has been described as 'skittish' since forever. She did Trauma Release Exercises (basically you tire your inner tights with exercises like the one below and it starts to shake and the whole body) and now is just... not?? anymore?? Like is out of flight-or-fight!?!?…

there's a reason the german car industry is dying

Google just discovered a powerful emergent capability in Veo 3 - visually annotate your instructions on the start frame, and Veo just does it for you! Instead of iterating endlessly on the perfect prompt, defining complex spatial relationships in words, you can just draw it out…

you *really* couldn’t find a few more meaningful relationships, contributions, quests, or domains of knowledge to explore with an extra decade or two? i need 250 years just to get after what I’m already obsessed with

This is the future of knowledge work plan accordingly and good luck Didi 🍀

Current state of the medical establishment: Brought a friend to the ER for a high fever. Put their symptoms into Grok. Grok told me to ask for 4 tests. Doctor said 1 of them is unnecessary. I insisted we do them all. Test came back positive on the one he didn’t want to do.

for most of this year I’ve been about 10lbs over my ideal weight I’ve tried to get back into rigorous calorie counting, but my appetite has been voracious, and so I was never able to be consistent along the way, I fell into the usual patterns of guilt & shame, “why can’t I be…

"Do I use DeepSeek? No, hell no man. You'd get your ass kicked for using that around here. I only use models made in America, by Americans, who happen to speak Chinese"

Social media is wild, came back to x/twitter and 48 hours later some amazing people liked my work and reached over 5 million people. I can now get paid on here somehow. I love wildlife but also love everything nature has to offer! Ask me anything and I’ll try to help you!

Waymo is a godsend for working parents. Need to hand off the baby between meetings? Put them in a Waymo and send them to your partner across town. Impossible before now. Really grateful we have this technology 🙏

Copying docs from @OpenAI chat *always* removes source links, so I can't create docs with the links to the source material it references anyone have a fix for this? no matter what I prompt it just doesn't get it

All stories end. Embrace the emergence of life.

Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann on why he chose Montessori for his daughter: "If this were 10-20 years ago, I'd be lining her up for top-tier schools and extracurriculars. But now I don't think any of it's going to matter. Learning facts is going to fade into the background. What…

I love when Claude tells me something will take 6 weeks. No dude, we are doing it this afternoon.

Waymo spent 15 years getting from 90% to mostly autonomous. Companies are about to learn the same lesson..

Had a great time talking about Castle, the importance of bitcoin for the world and for SMBs, the block size wars, and some parts of my background and tech journey that I hadn't shared publicly before. Let's fix the money.

i once worked as a live-in nanny for 3 small kids in hawaii. the parents were burnt out and didn’t really like parenting. they had 2 nannies covering 7am-8pm 7 days a week. the dad worked a few hours a day and the mom didn’t work. years later i saw the dad had started a blog…

One of the main themes I didn't really fully internalize at the time was that courage is a scarcest and more valuable resource than intelligence alone. Be a Gryffindor. Unironically.

Digression: Dean is literally editing something worth billions of market cap to GOOG on google docs, and everyone is (correctly!) very implicitly certain that they don't need to worry about GOOG peeking at it. This is a genuine, important thing our society has achieved.

Shaking my girlfriends dads hand: “Great grip sir I see where she gets it from”