@bugmango

A Christian who loves beautiful things, startups, and space. Head of Design @8vc

Austin, TX
Joined December 2009
Here is every hour of one entire year of my life, plotted on a radial timeline (read clockwise). Years ago I began tracking how I spent my time every day in order to hold myself accountable to making the best investments with life's move valuable resource: time. (1/n)
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Few things are as bleak as meeting someone who doesn't like the original LoTR movies, conversation kinda peters out and eyes start searching for the door.
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For all the other space nerds out there, I flew over Pecan Island a couple days ago - the site of the future @SpaceX Starbase, LA.
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If you want to remember 9/11 in the most visceral way watch the live news coverage, as it happened, time-matched to that morning. Start this in exactly an hour. youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-bJLRa…
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Luke Bugbee retweeted
Replying to @EvanHub
So is thinking behind posts like this that you’ll make avg people despise you enough that the federal govt will massively regulate you and state/local govt will never let you build another datacenter, thus never having to come up w a alignment plan??
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Incredibly refreshing to hear the Philippines stand up to China so candidly this way. I spent my entire childhood there (K-12), and was surprised when I came back to the US that few had heard of China's bullying of their neighbors.
Well said. CCP is an uncouth bully. It’s wonderful to see courageous men like Philippines Defense Sec Teodoro stand up to them cogently.
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I've been asked to help fill Head of Brand / Creative Dir. / Sr Brand Design roles at 3 different companies which are some of the most inspiring, technologically futuristic companies I've seen. If this is you pls DM me.
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.@AlexFrommeyer just announced the launch of our latest @8vc build co Stack Health, which means I can finally share easily the funnest brand we've had the privilege to explore. Fro requested 'Liquid Death for Insurance', and I think we delivered :)
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I was the foreperson on a jury for a DUI where the guy was clearly 2-3x the legal limit when arrested. A lady who was clearly on cocain didnt want to convict him because she had a nephew whose DUI really messed up his life... Took two days to convince her.
I lost most of my faith in juries in 2018, when I had to convince a room full of adults that Walmart being rich was not a reason to award a woman $3 million for a fall they agreed wasn’t Walmart’s fault. We’ve become a culture that judges by feelings instead of facts or justice.
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ok but google option is objectively better in this example??
Accept it or not but Apple Maps is better than Google Maps at navigation
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I visited @neuralink in person on Thursday for the first time and met the incredible people in each department digging deep into how the brain works. My mind was melted. Of all the companies I've visited in my 10yrs at @8vc it was the most sci-fi stuff I've ever seen.
Replying to @cremieuxrecueil
The brain is a biological computer. Just like silicon computers, some brains have more processing power or specialist skills than others and this varies tremendously in humans. The probable capabilities of any given brain can be determined with high accuracy from an MRI. At Neuralink, we obviously have to understand brains extremely well to interface with them effectively, so there is no room for nonsense.
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. @AnthropicAI loves their capybaras. A marble capybara statue now lives inside Anthropic's HQ. Some friends and I had the privilege of bringing it to life at breakneck speed. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the process: sketching it in a night, molding it in clay the next morning, and milling it from marble over the following weeks with help from the talented team at @Monumental_Labs. Pretty fun to support @8vc's mission of fixing [and beautifying?] a broken world in this way!
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Kinda cool that Pecan Island and South Padre Island are both exactly 6hr10min from Austin. One way or another my sons and I are going to be watching these launches.
Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity. Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project → spacex.com/sites/starbase-la
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Proud to lead @LazarusEnergy's $16M seed, and accelerate supercritical CO₂ turbines for super critical industries: data centers & nuclear SMR. @AtomsNotBits breaks down how Lazarus is attacking the power supply constraints standing between the 🇺🇸 and AI dominance:
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Had an awesome time hosing Designers x Machines at our @8vc office last week. Thank you @ben_issen for throwing such a well-run and fun event! We saw quick 5-min flash demos of various side projects SF’s most creative designers have been building w AI.
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A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
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Ok been playing with Grok Bot for a couple hours now and it's the bee's knees. 👀
first major product i’ve shipped at Cursor, and one i’ve been lucky to shape from the ground up. our relationship with AI is shifting from chatting back and forth to entrusting a team of agents with real work. Grok Bot is a glimpse of that future. so proud and grateful to have built this with such an incredible team at @cursor_ai @SpaceXAI . hope you like it.
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A secret hack to getting your brand approved by a company is to have dreamed up, believed in, and designed out a vision for them that's even greater than they believe is possible themselves.
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Hey so I have some questions about that third picture
Santa Monica House by RIOS 📸 Nils Timm #ArchinectProjects Project details at archinect.com/firms/project/…
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Awesome to hear from the legends @MavrookasD and @Vbob202 on @theallinpod, I was incredibly privileged to have been at the @Saronic HQ the day the Apache Pilot rescue was announced, the energy was electric and they're just getting started. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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