Luke Metro @luke_metro Twitter profile

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2 years

Twitter has staying power because it is the only social media platform that rewards being deranged more than being hot

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wait the president of Nintendo is seriously named Bowser?

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Lost 5 pounds after spending a week in Japan, even though I ate a ton. American food is poisoning us. Pic unrelated.

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when my boss asks why my commit brought down prod

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All the smartest people I know are going into web3. On an unrelated note, all of them are prosecutors.

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Adobe and Figma end $20B acquisition plans after regulatory headwinds in Europe

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> Have an original idea > Look it up on Google > It was already tried by Lockheed or Soviet engineers in the 60s Every single time.

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All the smartest people I know have spent the entire weekend asking questions to gptChat

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2 years

BREAKING: a16z fires Adam Neumann from his new real estate startup after he tries to build apartments in Atherton

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10 months

why would you post this while listing your employer on your blind account lmao

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James Bond fans can expect a relatively unknown male in his 30s to take over the 007 role.

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3 years

Why does tech seem to burn people out so quickly despite most jobs being objectively extremely cushy

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2 years

Rahul Ligma is one of the most talented data scientists that I know; any employer would be lucky to hire him.

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7 months

Few understand this

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The irony here is that there’s a shortage of electrical engineers since a large fraction of the EE graduates of the last 10 years just became software engineers since the money & lifestyle is much better

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when the cashier flips the iPad to show me a tip screen

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You can laugh but this is how Boeing built the 737 MAX

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9 months

do Americans ever get tired of subsidizing the rest of the world

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2 years

I love how McKinsey consultants are simultaneously regarded as a colossal waste of money for a company but also an excellent alumni pool from which to hire

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2 years

People joke about FAANG engineers being lazy but, in my experience, that is not the case at all. I regularly work more than 40 hours a week between my jobs at Facebook, NVIDIA, and Google.

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Hinge in San Francisco is getting rough

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The male biological clock is just moving to NYC when you are 30 and single

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First he subsidized our Ubers Now he’s subsidizing our GPUs The patron saint of tech bros returns

Bloomberg

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BREAKING: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors

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2 years

I’m putting together a team …

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2 years

Online dating for straight men in SF is tricky. You must find the 3 dateable women from a crowd of > Project Veritas honeypots > Startup recruiters > MSS Agents > Crypto scammers > VC scouts

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After watching friends at FAANG I must admit that management consultants were right about everything. Designing a promo system and org chart aligned with biz needs may be the most important thing that a company does. Principal-agent problems destroy lives. Becoming McKinseypilled

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It is funny how we’re no longer talking about nuclear war because David Sacks is busy planning a layoff at Twitter

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The more I talk with friends at FAANG, the more I am convinced that the career ladder of virtually every large tech company incentivizes outcomes that are totally unrelated to the business interests of the company.

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Just saw the thread on Blind where all the Meta directors shared their salaries and I have never felt more passionate about building and scaling teams

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I was not ready for the Lockheed Martin Korean streetwear drop

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> America is dangerously close to running out of some critical resource > Mining companies send teams of geologists around the country in silly looking vans > They find massive deposits of said resource Works every time.

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"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America - CBS Minnesota

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Crazy to think how LK99 wouldn’t exist if they didn’t have world class project management software

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@micsolana The fountain in terminal B was enough to fix me

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1 year

We will never see another FTX because I am confident that Silicon Valley has learned its lesson regarding inane founder worship

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11 months

Jason Calacanis has turned on caps lock

@jason

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IS THERE ANYONE *LIVING* IN SF THAT WOULD OBJECT TO THE NATIONAL GUARD ROLLING INTO THE TENDERLOIN AND REMOVING ALL FENTANLY DEALERS FOR A YEAR?

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1 year

Now that I’ve played with GPTchat for thirty minutes what the hell is apple doing with Siri

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8 months

The Tokyo train system is great and all but nothing will ever compare to taking a $5 Uber across San Francisco in 2015

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2 years

When a recruiter asks me to do a 4 hour take home coding challenge

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The year is 2022. You are 30 years old, unmarried, and can’t afford a house. Your one saving grace is that every day you get to experience a beautiful and seamless corporate card experience.

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How many new tech job titles were invented just because MBAs don’t want to take any job that contains the word “sales”

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1 year

My main learning from the SVB take firehose is that very few ppl outside of tech view funded early stage founders as scrappy underdogs instead of the bourgeois

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11 months

never deleting this app

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Currently imagining what a Steve Jobs - Elon Musk Twitter fight would look like

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If Napoleon were alive today, he would be a 23 year old product manager who just seized power in a reorg

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2 years

I’m still bullish on the Silicon Valley suburbs because there is literally nothing to do there except make money

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If you take a job at a startup, work hard, and pick a company in the top 10th percentile, you too can have the stock gains of a guy who started working at Facebook 8 months ago.

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> Open twitter > See the startup crowd trashing Google and its employees for the fifth year in a row > Open Blind > “I make $700k TC at Google, just got an offer for $2M TC at OpenAI. Should I take it?” What’s the lesson here?

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One year ago today, the mass layoffs of tech workers began and the industry has never been the same

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2 years

My M1 MacBook Air is starting to feel slow. The damn web devs finally did it.

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10 months

this is like the Death Note for 20 year prison sentences

Forbes

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Do you know someone who should be nominated for Forbes 30 Under 30? Nominate them here:

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everybody dunking on this with the calculator needs to learn:

COOPER

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My dream bf - 6ft - $300-500K total comp - very ambitious & driven - 27-33yo - brown eyes - loves nyc - rlly funny but a bit weird - rlly kind & has a moral system - not trust fund baby (self made) - good taste - good listener & planner - loves running & reading - loves me a LOT

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2 years

Conspiracy theory: The Saudis funded Uber for so long because they knew that it would be used as an excuse to not invest in transit, thus keeping oil consumption high

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It's crazy how much the last ten years of city life were shaped by tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for cheap cab rides

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Most people I know who grew up in a wealthy Bay Area suburb say they wouldn’t want to have kids there due to the high stress environment … meanwhile I’m jealous that their high school friend groups are more useful than 99% of college alumni networks

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It’s crazy how the SF vs. NYC vs. LA vs. Miami tech scene rivalries died as soon as no one had any capital gains left to realize

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A guy in the marina just told me that it’s crazy how San Francisco is banning self driving cars instead of fentanyl dealing

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I believe in taking a bet on unproven people. That’s why I only look for the 3 S’s while hiring: 4 years at Stanford SpaceX or Stripe

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Blind in 2021: 3 YoE, 5 job offers, TC $300k-$500k. Feeling lowballed. Blind in 2023:

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How to get a job

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Genghis Khan grindset

Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

Court documents show that Elon Musk and a 36-year-old Neuralink executive, Shivon Zilis, are the parents of 8-month-old twins. Musk now has nine known children.

www.businessinsider.com

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like half of my Ukraine war news comes from this guy yelling at David sacks

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HEY DAVID HOW ABOUT YOU WRITE YOUR NEXT THREAD ON THE FAILING SPANS ON THE CRIMEAN BRIDGE YOU DUMB FUCKING BASTARD

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Silicon Valley elites angel investing in each others’ startups is the modern version of European royals marrying off their children to maintain political alliances

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Everyone dunking on this is wrong. There is nothing that Americans love more than buying paramilitary grade equipment to use in the Costco parking lot on a Saturday.

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A dating app that actually works would be catastrophic for MBA enrollment numbers

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Are IPO lockups not a thing anymore

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has sold ~$16.2M of stock in his own company since the IPO last week. COO Jennifer Wong has sold $16.6M. CTO Christopher Slowe has sold $5.8M. CFO Andrew Vollero has sold $2.3M.

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Questions asked immediately before disasters

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2 years

There are theee ways to become a 10x engineer - Microdosing LSD - Microdosing Adderall - Microdosing Estrogen

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Yes I’m a tech billionaire. Yes I live in Los Angeles. Yes I gave $50k to Chesa Boudin. We exist.

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The worst financial advice I have ever received is that I should diversify my stocks to include non-US companies

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You’ll never get rich working for someone else

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This sounds great but have any of these countries figured out how to pay software engineers more than $80k/yr

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How long will the U.S. stay complacent? 🇬🇧 launched four new visas for talent last year 🇨🇦 set record immigration targets last Nov. 🇩🇪 cabinet approved points-based system in March 🇯🇵 launched two new visas for top talent in April 🇸🇬 launching a new points-based system this fall

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Lots of dunking on this but I guarantee you that buying an Xbox controller is going to be superior to designing one yourself ~90% of the time

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"We run the whole thing with this game controller." -- Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate.

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Travis Kalanick was the only man to take a stand against the practice of including a tip screen everywhere, and they killed him for it.

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VC blog posts: “Convince potential employees to take pay cuts by selling them on the company vision” Successful startups irl:

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When the revolution comes, I am going to get the guillotine solely for having this app installed on my phone

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imo this underscores how SW Eng at FAANG-scale company and startup/independent coder have diverged to be almost entirely different jobs The flip side of “Most FAANG devs couldn’t ship their own web app” is that developing within BigCo workflows is its own skill set

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[at the single childless man dinner] we should absolutely increase the birth rate

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The most Sigma move I've ever seen was SBF describing yield farming as a textbook Ponzi on a podcast, then saying that he's still bullish because he sees a bunch of institutional money about to come in.

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It’s crazy how one minute I’m doing my state taxes and the next I’m browsing apartments in Miami

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“Sam Altman is leaving OpenAI”

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What do you call the point in the AI cycle where CEOs of $4B companies want to work for Microsoft instead?

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Listen here Jack, no more buffer overflows

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California continues to hold the Mandate of Heaven

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When you ask San Franciscans what they want instead of a child

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My wife just put me on a PIP

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A fun thought experiment is imagining what would happen if the C-suite of your employer was replaced by the cast of the All In Podcast

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If you need evidence of elite overproduction look no further than the line outside an Amex Centurion lounge

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You gotta admire the sincerity of early startup employees who code 60 hours a week while the founders party in Ibiza or Mykonos for vague business development reasons

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this is so much cooler than universal healthcare

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The M*ami thing makes sense once you realize that tech influencer and party promoter are basically the same job

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The world is not ready for when the Houthis seize this and become the world’s seventh nuclear navy

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A Chinese shipyard on Tuesday revealed the design of the world's first and largest nuclear-powered 24,000 TEU container ship, Global Times reported.

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It is 1AM in Santa Monica and I am listening to two guys in the street shout about Brex vs. Ramp

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Just saw a blind post where a new grad posted a $220k TC offer, and the top comment was to “take it for now then interview around in a year” We are so back

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The tech bro red pill is realizing that engineering ability and financial outcomes are very loosely correlated

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All of my high school friends’ instagrams are weddings and babies but all of my college/adult friends’ instagrams are parties and vacations. Probably the best illustration I’ve seen of the bugman-normie divide.

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Hard tech VCs will tell you how 3D printing is going to revolutionize manufacturing but also have no idea what a CNC machine is

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸

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This is a reminder that we used to build windmills that looked like this... but why did we stop?

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Joe Biden, welcome to Rust.

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Canadian tech is so funny. Every Waterloo grad moves to the US since salaries are twice as much with similar cost of living, and all the local companies are filled with migrant workers since their immigration system is way easier for white collar employees

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Wake up babe, the influencers have picked a new top tech city and we have to move there

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