happy sisyphus, cofounder @tryunusual

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2012
Mei is one on the most astute writers I know. If you aren’t following or working with her you’re missing out.
hi i’m mei && i’m new to X :) about me: - ghostwriter for ceos in tech (withghost.co, with the brilliant @adam__xyz) - i write a substack with 7.5K subs where i talk about my feelings self-indulgently - listen to a LOT of chet baker and koven wei - into meditation (did vipassana) - learning poker + pool rn (NOT performatively 😡) if u wanna yap about work / writing / life lmk :)
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"i will not be a fly crushed on the windshield of the car of history"
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the plan? we build free pickleball courts to buy boomers' support for the new datacenter
Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US. The only thing discussed more than data centers? Pickleball courts.
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Will Jack retweeted
1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness. New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
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every liberal bone in my body when i watch airplane go vroom vroom during fleet week
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have some lore to share: the first vibecoding company was not cursor or cognition or anthropic -- it was Season 6 of Silicon Valley > be me, techbro founder hired as a consultant to the show
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my core memory of the time was sitting around with my friends, finding snippets of code that actually worked in node we were like "wow this is crazy i can't believe some of this stuff actually compiles" i don't think anybody thought it would ever be an actually useful tool.
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half of those friends went on to work at openai / ant and later built claude code etc. people think ai coding was born in the labs, but it actually all started as a movie prop in a hollywood studio
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I'm starting to think mathematics were not beautiful because it "describes the beauty of nature" but rather because human mathematicians only went after beautiful but suboptimal descriptions lol
You can do Fourier transforms in O(N log(N)^0.9999999999999) time. Fuck this gay chud universe
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art derives beauty from the passion of its creator math isn’t over, but the era of mathematics as art is
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. github.com/openai/math
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$100/mo life insurance vs. shorting myself getting killed by claude while hiking
JUST IN: 16-year-old has to be rescued from British Columbia’s “Widowmaker” mountain after reportedly letting Claude map out the hike, leading him off trail.
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multistage vc’s seed arms are often just crumple zones for their main portfolio refreshing to hear someone say it out loud
Every seed investment is an option bet. “You have to think about the venture portfolio as a bunch of options. Each seed investment is an option bet. You are buying an option to see if it is an outlier, and you want to have enough of those to make sure you have an outlier. When there is true quantitative evidence that it is going to be an outlier, then you position size up.” @venkyganesan How do seed funds play in a world where mega funds are totally price insensitive and “option bets” is the mindset for seed checks @infoarbitrage @chudson @hunterwalk @honam @dunkhippo33 @jasonlk
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great success bringing silicon valley to tuolumne meadows 14 pitches, mostly simulclimbed liquidity events in alpine lakes sales wins: friends signing up for a chill hike and getting an 8 mile 2000’ trail run
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