Growing up in Silicon Valley, I believed tech was meant to democratize opportunity and accelerate human progress. The early ethos of the Valley wasn’t just about building profitable products, but about shifting the trajectory of lives and societies. There was idealism, for sure, but also a serious belief that technical breakthroughs should serve human success. But somewhere along the way, parts of the industry traded vision for vanity. As capital flooded into tech, incentives shifted. Virality began to outpace value. The goalposts moved from solving hard, important problems to maximizing engagement, retention, and monetization. Today some of the brightest minds are pulled towards optimizing ad clicks and frictionless dopamine loops. Why? (Insert disclaimer: The issue isn’t the people). Innovation isn’t dead. (Insert disclaimer again: Many technologists are building remarkable human-centered tools.) It’s worth asking again and again: What is worth building? And who is it truly for?

Me when they send a Luma invite instead of a Partiful

Ai agents feel peer pressure too

yay

She was so early

Men used to go to war now they just pace the frontier

A very warm welcome back to Palo Alto @finneas

“We think it’s equally important to unship features that are no longer necessary”

They should’ve done the white koenigsegg ugh

A d*** c***** in Tahoe hear me out

Ugh Instinct accidentally texted my ex situationship im so upset!!

ROCKING The Farm @E40 🔥

I love Steph Curry so much like if someone asked me to choose between five billion dollars or meeting Steph Curry, i would choose five billion dollars but i really love him so much

Ban Microsoft Teams next @adamsilver

Enough

Nobody talks about how hard it is to go from that to this

Just got LASIK surgery they offered me anesthetics I turned it down. Yea I turned it down just to do this just to grind from the pain. They offered me like Novocaine some shit like that.

LinkedIn died a long time ago btw