SF Victim Advocate: “As you walk free, know that five years, afforded you this moment. If this case happened anywhere else in CA or the Bay Area you likely would be midterm on a prison sentence.”
After that Victim Advocate Feinberg was fired by Boudin.
The backstory is even crazier— texting while driving
Ask yourself: Is this a good thing for the society we live in? We need to vote accordingly, because as far as I'm concerned, this is deep in breakdown-of-society mode.
Nonfungible tokens bring scarcity to the digital world— the "bad version" of this is new status symbols. The good version of this I'm excited about is creating new games
That's why we funded @manifoldxyz to let people create your own game dynamics on your own smart contracts
Manifold lets creators and artists get creative sovereignty— use your own contract, not someone else's
I might be sharecropping here on YouTube/Twitter but the promise of NFTs is to let creators build their own platforms for ownership and distribution
What did @ediep wish he knew when he was 20 starting out in tech today? He would drop everything and learn about web3— in 2010 if you didn't learn about mobile, you would pay a big penalty.
Pick up smart contracts and hack away — the distribution advantages are just ramping now
Multiple support pings back and forth required to even get the money to show up
When people think Coinbase is going to be killed by fee compression, I just shake my head because nobody else in crypto seems to be able to do their jobs right at all
Coinbase is far from perfect, but based on my experience with a variety of other fiat-to-crypto rails—BIG YIKES
What happens when other people take credit for your work? I let it build up and build up and build up. It made me want to flip the tables, and I have to admit I might have given into that in the past.
Yeah I ragequit before and I'm not proud of it
How did I get here? I allowed my East Asian immigrant cultural upbringing to affect how I thought about self-advocacy.
It cost me 10 years of my career.
I let the bamboo ceiling smack me in the face
Did people take credit for my work? Yeah. What did I do? Nothing.
Big lesson: You've got to be aware of The Gervais Principle by @vgr
Sociopaths, losers, and clueless: there's a way where these groups in every org interact, and you can't ignore the dynamics between these groups within each organization
How do we keep American manufacturing onshore? Robotics. Meet @samanfarid founder of Formic.
He is providing financing and systems integration to turn robotics into robotics as a service, helping save $450B of manufacturing (labor shortfall) by 2028
Bob Albert owns Polar Hardware, a 105-year-old metal stamping factory in Chicago. Polar used @goformic to set up a robot arm that makes door handles.
“If the robot works really well, we’ll use it a lot. They have skin in the game.”