Building at Replit. Previously - Render, Stripe, VMware
Joined December 2017
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My personal AI writing policy - write and read every single word I want a human to process, own my writing, be concise
Reminds me of when I learned from someone with a large following here that he would post something deliberately incorrect about a topic he wanted to learn more about and wait for corrections plus engagement to roll in. Genius but not for the weak
Thinking about this Vonnegut quote a lot ‘And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.’ goodreads.com/quotes/1202056…
This is an excellent profile on one of my favorite contemporary Indian poets
At 92, Gulzar writes with the same discipline that's helped him refine & reinvent his art decade after decade - building an enormous body of work known for its tenderness.
This summer, I spent time with him at his Mumbai home for this @nytimes profile:
nytimes.com/2026/09/21/world…
Every large lot available in the Bay Area should have only 3 development options - data center, Amazon warehouse or housing. I think that might finally solve our housing crisis
One more thing on the whole school thing. I think it's particularly admirable that @SFParents exists in SF and was created in the pandemic because it tries to improve the overall system and took on the hardest problems plaguing SFUSD in a very pragmatic way
The NYtimes article by Nikole Hannah-Jones reminded of a few realizations I came to over the last few years. Public schools, particularly in poorer neighborhoods in cities in the US are downstream of everything that is missing in terms of a welfare safety net.
Yes, everyone should send their kids to public schools because otherwise school lose funding esp if like in California the money is directly tied to days of attendance per student.
I’m working from a coffee shop and it’s perfect because I can eavesdrop on the first date couple next to me. As a bonus the woman is Indian and the dude is white so I’m extra invested.
Moved on to safer topics such as travel, much more optimistic for their date but less fun to eavesdrop now