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head of community comms @stripe / before: comms @twitter + alum @uwbadgers
Joined June 2011
.@stewartbrand is a legend, and he's at it again. His latest work, Maintenance: Of Everything, is now available for pre-order through @stripepress. While I have no favorites in our covers, if I did, this is it. 🥰
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Some professional news. Excited to start today as chief economist at @Stripe. Looking forward to working with & learning from the brilliant people there to produce data-centered insights and research.
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the time has come it’s been a blast being a one woman marketing army for @privy_io, but it’s time to grow i am hiring an events marketer with 🤌 taste (see pic), attention to detail + not afraid to roll up their sleeves if that sounds like you or someone you know, hit me up
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my Super Bowl!!!!!!!! go @henri_stern!
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You can't make everyone happy You're not a Stripe payment notification
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Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer) on Cheeky Pint discusses his solar-maximalist worldview, Henry Kaiser, hard tech, why Hyperloop was doomed by physics from the start, and his plan to refill the Salton Sea. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:28 Henry Kaiser 08:49 Introducing Terraform 13:08
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From "The Origins of Efficiency"
people used to get appliances repaired, clothes mended. its significantly cheaper & easier now to get a new microwave off a cargo ship from shanghai than to find a handyman who will repair one for you. the global logistics system is a star trek replicator with a 0-2 day lag
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SF founders/builders - i'm excited to bring you my very first event at @stripe 🥹 join me for✨Build Day✨ at our office on 11/4! choose-your-own-adventure with coworking, demos, 1:1 integration support, stripe press, lunch + coffee, and flow state dj! rsvp below
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Out now: https://t.co/KEyYy67F90 200 years on from the Industrial Revolution, we still struggle to understand what makes a production process more efficient. The Origins of Efficiency fills in that gap. Examining industries from steel to semiconductors to auto manufacturing,
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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This is the best podcast episode I have listened to in several years. If you are building anything you should listen to this.
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spend all day on twitter? then why not get paid for it? we're looking for someone to manage our developer social media
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you're telling me that the publishing house that makes those beautiful books also runs a little payments side hustle?
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Evolution of the Scaling Era cover: “It’s hard to find unique ways of visualizing AI without defaulting to the obvious,” says @pablodelcan. “In our design process, we experimented with unexpected metaphors—flowers growing out of neural networks, abstract mathematical puzzles
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Very proud to partner with @Stripe on giving @Superwall customers 1 click web-checkout, no coding required.
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The Scaling Era, by the brilliant @dwarkesh_sp with @g_leech_, and edited by @rebeccahiscott, is out today: https://t.co/ylTZn2VaMn Since we announced this book, the question we’ve gotten most is ‘why now?’
What is intelligence? What will it take to create AGI? What happens once we succeed? The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by @dwarkesh_sp and @g_leech_ explores the questions animating those at the frontier of AI research. It’s out today: https://t.co/6GzEZyaggR
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