Split between Brooklyn and SF. Currently making agents less scary to work with as CTO of Backplanes. He/Him. @algolia / @twilio alum.

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Sure, the last two Swift albums are meh, but Patient Zero slaps hard. (GTM wants me to tweet more, does this count? 🤣)
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Nobody is asking the hard questions about AI. How many people are going to develop crushes on GPT-4o?
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#Folklore is like the grand unifying theory of my music taste. It marries my love for lo-fi hipster music (The Mountain Goats, Andrew Bird, Okkervil River, The Weakerthans, The National) with my love of @taylorswift13. This is the album I didn't know I needed in 2020.
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Some people really miss fancy dinners out, I miss IKEA Swedish meatballs.
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Forget Zoom virtual backgrounds, we need Zoom virtual hair.
That moment when you type your very very very long work password correctly quickly, feel all cool and then are told you typed it in wrong
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Personal pet peeve. People who barge into an elevator with like inches left in the door opening and then proceed to smash the “close door” button repeatedly
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Whenever I have to open up Chrome nowadays (to test a web UI, etc), I hold my breath and feel like I'm opening up some malware on my machine. Open it, get the job done, and then close it right back up.
China sneezes, the world catches a cold. We’re all connected, even if some people want to put up walls and pretend we aren’t.
Coffee shop bathroom art – at Portland, OR
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Since it's 2020 and there's an outbreak in China, I decided to watch Contagion tonight. #tooreal?
The Google Maps mobile app screen screams of a "PM trying to hit some OKR numbers that have nothing to do with why people use it" Folks, this is supposed to be a maps utility. Not some Frankenstein smash up of Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, etc – at San Francisco, CA
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To which, he LITERALLY nudged me this way (because i was going down building a marketspace/ecosystem of maps apps that this app would recommend). That interview turned into me arguing against this perspective.
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Needless to say, I didn't get the job. 😂
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Best insight from Spotify's decade in review. My top 2016 song was YOLO by Lonely Island. I don't know how I feel about that.
This might be the most "I work at a tech startup" thing I've seen in a lost and found. – at San Francisco, CA
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Good Morning, Oakland! – at Oakland, CA
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"Mr. Pichai’s direct reports also include Jen Fitzpatrick from Google Maps, Noam Bardin from Waze, Bradley Horowitz from Google+, John Giannandrea from Google Research and machine learning; " How is Google+ still a fucking a thing there?
I have architected large scalable systems, know a ton of programming languages and still have to lookup how to set up a new SSH key for github *EVERY TIME*.
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