I feel like we’re all playing “boar on the floor”

fruit fly can control a robot now

Nothing more glamorous than being kind. 8 years ago I visited Gatlinburg, Tenn. and saw how Dolly Parton’s no-strings-attached universal cash transfers changed the lives of the victims of a devastating wildfire. A short doc I made below: piped.video/kInUGW4H3Jc

A growing backlog, real hardware shipped, and a long list of evangelist customers My guy @sambshapiro is a grinder! Excited for @CapitalAlso to double down on @groundedevs as they build the enablement layer for the connected fleets of the future @TechCrunch

Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate!

Proud to join @_Andrenam_'s board. Why: in a sea of commoditized autonomous vessels, this team chose the brutally hard problem — sensing the ocean. And they ship: 3 generations of Pearl buoys, 10x gains each cycle, 4,500+ hours at sea, with contracts on the way. Congrats @mateocernosek & @alex__chu__ on the Series A!

Why can’t we have nice things?

A year ago, @FounderLaberge was putting sensors on tractors and excavators to catch failures before they happened. Today @TryOmenAI announced $41.5M — applying that same real-time fluid analysis to the liquid cooling inside AI data centers, where it's becoming mission-critical as compute demand compounds. Proud to back this team. They're hiring in SF & Orange County.

Very important lesson for Blue Cities here: Every change Lurie has made has been opposed by screaming, bullying activists -- ignoring them has been the path to policy success and extremely high popularity. @skaushik100 sfchronicle.com/election/art…

“In the Los Angeles area, for example, the average exit tax for homeowners 65 and older is $185,000, while the annual cost of insurance, maintenance and property taxes on a zombie home is only about $10,000, the data showed..” nytimes.com/2026/04/30/reale…

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

On our way to track @NASAArtemis using passive SONAR. Stay Tuned

living in a walkable neighborhood in LA is actually the best

Solid Curtain '26 was a counter-UUV exercise that brought together multiple mission stakeholders and demonstrating teams to detect asymmetric underwater threats in semi-contested port environments. The Andrenam team brought 12 buoys fully ready for the exercise. We deployed six across two locations and successfully detected several unmanned underwater vehicles in real time. Mission success. More to come.

Solid-state batteries are changing naval warfare. And the threats they enable are far harder to detect. A post recently went viral claiming Iran's "Azhdar" UUV patrols at 18–25 knots with 4-day endurance and 600+ km range. This appears to be false, but the post went viral because the narrative is true. UUVs are a growing threat and maritime, as demonstrated by this crisis, is more important than ever. And the stakes are high. Iran has long held the Strait of Hormuz as a pressure point; roughly 20% of global oil supply flows through a 21-mile-wide chokepoint. UUVs capable of covertly laying mines in those waters would further threaten naval assets and escalate the conflict. UUVs are already being deployed by multiple nations. Today's lithium-powered vehicles cover hundreds of kilometers and patrol for days. Solid-state batteries at 400 Wh/kg, and climbing, mean that gets dramatically better, cheaper, and more scalable this decade. Sensing underwater is categorically harder than any other domain. cUAS has radars, cameras, RF, microwave. The electromagnetic spectrum works for you in air. Water kills RF. Acoustics are the primary detection modality, and littoral environments add clutter and complexity that open-ocean legacy systems were never built for. Those legacy systems were designed to find large submarines in deep water. Not swarms of small autonomous vehicles near ports, chokepoints, and critical infrastructure. As UUVs get cheaper, faster, and more autonomous - sensing is the defining gap. cUUV is going to be a massive market. Interdiction starts with detection. And detection underwater is still largely unsolved.

LFG, congrats @nunzi46 on Also Cap's $50M second fund! Mike moves fast and isn't scared of the truly hard/ambitious/messy stuff. Proud to play a small part!

Today @CatoInstitute published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew

Autonomy demands connection. With the acquisition of @goTennaPro, the leader in low-bandwidth, tactical mesh networking, Forterra extends its edge platform integrating compute, communications, and control into a single resilient architecture. This unified foundation enables connected autonomy across platforms, sensors, and operators, maintaining operational continuity when traditional networks fail. Connected autonomy. Mission ready. Check out the exclusive from @tectonicdefense. tectonicdefense.com/exclusiv…

Remember when we said it had been a big week for @ForterraDrive? Well, it just got bigger. Forterra announced that they have fully acquired networking and secure comms company @goTennaPro for an undisclosed amount. tectonicdefense.com/exclusiv…