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To change things up a bit I found the two most jacked dudes that I know in @mattyp and @zacharyvalles , sat them down on a bench in front of a squat rack and talked about peptide tasting and startup events in 2026. You won't find three dudes talking about technology on a podcast anywhere else. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software de...

I have heard that saas is dead and now more recently that design is dead? I brought in two of the greatest designers that I know in @hannah_ahn and @Reshusaur to address this and read some tweets and ads and such with me. Hannah also listed fonts to failure. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help devel...

You didn't ask and I delivered once again. Here is a full overview of the state of startup distribution and what weird and whacky methods some companies are using to get your attention. This time partially clothed!! Think billboards, planes, intro posting and ABG UGC. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designe...

I got Chinese food with @Noahpinion and @koreanpeptides while we went through the best food in SF for each cuisine. I also put the camera on the lazy Susan so you as a viewer can be one with the Chinese food. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and dep...

No one asked and I delivered. Here are my thoughts on the current state of tech media while I take a bubble bath and risk destroying my fully specced out macbook forever. I also read some fan mail. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code an...

Well seeing as I missed @Bonecondor 's peptide soiree in NYC I figured I would at least follow it up with a niche podcast version with @maxmarchione . We covered: - Retatrutide  - Elli Lilly - Enhanced Games Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and...

I took @NicoleSHsing to some hot pot and we spoke about a few things: - The classic Silicon Valley mould   - Tech bro hobbies - Bridging art and technology Restaurant staff hates to see a white boy armed with DJI mics and an iphone 17 pro coming. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and no...

@signulll and I went through some of my favorite posts and accounts of all time and attempted to explain why they are good. Thank you @a16z for having us.  Thank you for the golf cart rides.  Thank you for the vodka sodas. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test...

It's been a while since we got a little technical on MOTS so I caught up with @samlambert to ask him about what is happening at Github and the fallout as one of the world's most loved pieces of software struggles to adapt to the agentic coding era. The conclusion? It'll probably be fine idk. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered sof...

SF is nothing without its people so I brought on some of the greatest in @kyliebytes and @Noahpinion . We covered: - the different groups you can find in SF - the different kinds of events worth going to - groups working to make SF better - why we love SF (controversial) Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed...

In today's MOTS extra I sat down with @tejasybhakta of @morphllm to get a little technical. We covered: - programming with a piano foot pedal - leaving parties to check on agents - how many agents good engineers are actually running Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-develop...

@baelentina_ and I visited @jxnlco the other day to discuss whether dressing well in SF is low status or not, personal hygiene and how technology brothers should be more vain. We also used some new innovative framing for Jason with this episode. MOTS is always pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable production. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-p...

I turned @signulll into an ominous gray blob as we sat down in Alamo Square to talk about normal people things like how social media is tribal again, the X dot com the everything app algorithm and the permanent underclass. We also spoke to some dogs. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers an...

RFK announces peptide reclassification! What does this all mean? Will the technology brothers finally be able to source peptides not of the sketchy Chinese kind? Is this legalization or a different thing? Are the technology brothers going too far with peptides? @maxmarchione and I covered all of this and more. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered...

I had @0thernet over and instead of just hanging out over coffee or tea like normal people we decided to podcast like absolute morons. Anyway this MOTS extra is timely because I got a glimpse into the state of AI startups in 2026. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers bui...

I had both @baelentina_ and @NicoleSHsing over for some tea and to discuss different social interactions you might experience in San Francisco. We broke them down into four main categories: - networking - parties - confrontation - dating Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-develop...

I visited Theo Browne and Ben Davis to break down the monumental TBPN OpenAI acquisition and what this means for all of our favorite buzzwords like new media and AI and technology and culture and such. Theo thinks I tried too hard writing this but I'm posting it anyways. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform desi...

Due to popular demand I sat down for 40 minutes by myself and talked about my arms (very normal) and where to train in San Francisco.  Also this is a call out to startups: ad space on my arms are for sale and i believe will become some of the most valuable real estate in San Francisco. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development pla...

The weather in SF has been perfect so @NicoleSHsing (summer is literally in her name) and I set up on a park bench directly in the wind and talked about different side quests in SF and goth ABGs. Everything from robot fighting to drone slaying. This is super serious media. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designe...

Since @maxmarchione and I last spoke a bunch of things have happened in the world of peptides from RFK's reclassification to Andrew Huberman posting to people discovering that bodybuilders got there first (bodybuilders drive the culture). So max and I caught up once again to cover all of this. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software de...

Yesterday I visited @Noahpinion for some tea, to play with rabbits and to get political. From the tech right to old twitter vs Elon twitter to Anthropic vs DoW, we talked about the politics of tech and AI and where it might be headed Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers...

@ashebytes and I have decided that everyone needs to get offline, find some hobbies and go touch some grass (and a woman in my case) in order to overcome this wave of AI-induced anxiety. In this episode of MOTS we address the doom and crazyposting, propose solutions and take a trip to the mall. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software develo...

I took a trip to the PlanetScale office last week to chat with @samlambert about a couple of under-discussed topics: - AI (heard it's a big deal) - Anxiety - Are software engineers screwed? I have a feeling this MOTS extra will calm a lot of people down Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help devel...

You didn't ask and I delivered! Seeing as I made an appearance in yet another mainstream publication what better way to increase my surface area for career risk than podcast about it? here are my thoughts and reactions to Wired's piece, " Inside the Gay Tech Mafia ". Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development pl...

@baelentina_ and I cohosted a Valentines Day SF rager with @zocomputer last night. We broke down Valentines Day restaurant locations in SF, dating anxiety in SF and dating stats and we also performatively podcasted from the party itself. Very normal behaviour. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help dev...