Members of Technical Staff

I wouldn't get used to polished MOTS but I figured what better way to announce a @superpower partnership than to bring in some cameras and microphones and have a super serious debate on peptides and looksmaxxing with @maxmarchione . Tune in as we go back and forth on peptide risks and benefits, why the FDA is dragging the chain and get Max's thoughts on the new looksmaxxing craze taking...

I turned @tszzl into an ominous gray blob as we sat down with dearest @sofi_a and @baelentina_ to discuss the state of X Dot Com the everything app and San Francisco. We covered everything from how one gets into posting, Twitter and San Francisco in the pre-Chatgpt era and how Roon got dragged on Japanese Twitter recently. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Blackbox AI is...

I took a trip to the salesforce tower to talk to the @blackboxai guys about the leaning Millennium Tower behind us, training regiments of navy seals and pushups in this MOTS extra. 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 and applications fa...

Today is the day everyone finally finds out my sexuality using the power of tarot and LLMs. Dearest psychic Gillian Obrien joins to me facilitate the prediction of my future and I welcome Blackbox AI and Zo Computer to the MOTS mafia. 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...

Another day another current thing in the niche San Francisco technology culture. Was Sulaiman Khan Ghori , a former xAI engineer fired for podcasting or was this some sort of grand exit? If he was fired, did he release xAI secrets or did he simply not get approval from internal comms? I have no idea but I would never let a good current thing go to waste. Join me to catch up on the drama and the ti...

While AI is eating the world, it turns out that most people don’t actually like that idea, and current messaging around AI is on track to make things worse. What are AI vibes like in places outside of San Francisco? Does the layperson see productivity gains anywhere near those of knowledge workers? What are AI leaders saying that comes across as as off-putting as humanly possible? I cover all of t...

I booked a $1k-a-night hotel room and, instead of feeling the touch of a woman, I decided to talk to myself on camera for nearly 40 minutes. Anyway, the San Francisco social scene. Is X the key to the city? Is it worth going to networking events? Are Partiful or Luma events better? Should we take a page out of the gay playbook? I cover all of this and much more so you, too, can make some friends i...

So it really is a new year, new me, because I made The New York Times for my commentary on unregulated Chinese peptides. My dear friend Sina joins me to break down the article and give serious, nuanced takes on peptides and wellness risk profiles. We also touch on the Nicholas Maduro kidnapping and how we each monitored the situation. MOTS will always be here in the event of emergencies, because t...

The world needed another podcast of two single straight dudes giving predictions for 2026, so don’t ask and you shall receive. @mattyp and I covered four key topics with our predictions: San Francisco culture, San Francisco as a city, technology, and finally some wild cards. Will San Francisco’s party resurgence continue, and will we keep giving LLMs so much context that they have to start going t...

Looksmaxxing is on the cards for 2026, and that’s something I know a thing or two about. I decided to take on Clavicular at his own game and mog him. I also dropped some caution around Chinese peptides before breaking down different gyms in SF and giving my final recommendation. This emergency pod has you covered for looksmaxxing in San Francisco in 2026. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or S...

The X timeline giveth and the X timeline taketh away. From Chinese social media apps to accounts becoming the main character for weeks, the 2025 timeline had it all. Valentina joins me to break down the current thing for each month of 2025. Don’t want to spend 16 hours a day on your phone keeping up with what’s happening? This is the perfect episode for you, because I do and I am well-researched....

It's Christmas time and everyone is scrambling to book meetings, close rounds, and decide whether to see their family or go skiing. However, one important thing must be discussed before all the technology brothers take off for the holidays: what the hell do we even get them for Christmas? Valentina joins me to break all of this down, and we do a little bit of shopping with our AI overlords, a...

Woke is back! Was Cline's Head of AI being fired due to VC pressure or a severe miscalculation? I have no idea, but my unemployed ass would never let a good crisis go to waste. In this episode I cover the initial Twitter comment that drew criticism, the reactions, the fallout from the apology, and some classic startup comms slop. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Inf...

It's the quarterly startup equivalent of the NBA draft, and I was lucky enough to be let in as neither a founder nor an investor. YC Demo Day F25 has come to a close, and I sat down once again with my friend Justin ( @sporadica ) to recap it all and talk about YC's impact on the niche San Francisco technology culture. I also caused a bit of a ruckus at Demo Day itself, and you can hear f...

Keller joined me on the day his company, Zipline, announced their $150 million contract with the US State Department, which will include $400 million in co-commitments from their African partner governments. Rather than focus on the announcement, I grilled him on his career as a professional rock climber, and he even took me, a gym bro, climbing. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ....

Theo joined me to cover one of the greatest dunks and most brutal ratios X dot com has ever seen at the expense of yours truly. We talked about how a post of Theo's dunking on me took over the app for a day out of nowhere and how this roasting will actually be beneficial for my career. We also discussed viral slop content marketing and the strange things companies are doing to try and stand o...

It's raising season, and you know what that means. Young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed startup founders have flocked to San Francisco for introductions. We cover how to appropriately go about getting introductions, Partiful vs Luma events, Twitter vs LinkedIn, and much more. I also caught up with Paige Finn Doherty, Founding Partner of Behind Genius Ventures and author of the children's boo...

I was lucky enough to sit down with Madison Kanna the day after "The 7 Girls of SF" Thanksgiving party where I was even luckier to be invited as the token straight male. We covered all things vibes, attendance, the timeline and my sexuality.  Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing com...

The pre-seed, pre-product-market-fit founders in SF deserve love too. We break down why they may or may not be hard to date and talk about the quirks of founder dating in San Francisco specifically. We cover splitting the bill, fly-out culture, and dating post-exit. I also caught up with Adam Tazi, also known as @ personofswag on X dot com and founder of Trufflepig , to talk about his success dati...

Not many people know this, but some of the most influential figures in technology today are or once were anonymous Twitter accounts. This conversation explores their rise and the different cultural movements that emerged from them. We covered Roon’s wordcel vs. shape rotator , effective accelerationism vs. effective altruism, as well as an entire separate social media app once dedicated to anonymo...

We threw an absolute rager in San Francisco and it was actually good! This conversation covers how we did it, the ratio, the costumes, the lack of networking, whether people wore their shoes or not and what to think about when trying to throw a great party in SF. I also caught up with Miranda Nover, Founder of Fort and Valentina Escudero from a beloved MAG 7 before the party started to talk all th...

It’s almost Halloween, so we dressed up as disgraced founders and covered the dead companies and fads of Silicon Valley. This conversation takes a trip down memory lane, starting with the dot-com bubble, moving through the 2010s, the ZIRP era, and crypto, before finishing with a few recent casualties of the current AI hype cycle. I also catch up with my good friend and OpenAI researcher Will Depue...

I managed to catch Extropic founder and CEO Guillaume Verdon on launch day for their new thermodynamic computing hardware. We cover all things from benchmarks to bench press and we gain an insight into how the open source community will get to experiment with this new computing paradigm. Watch on X ; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models...

In San Francisco you are lauded and in New York City you are exiled. This conversation covers being unemployed in the big cities, the different labels the unemployed give themselves for status, and we discuss what it's like to see the unemployed talk to the rich on an app where your username is your net worth with Andi Duro, founder of Twocent . Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify...

The Soylent and Huel meal replacement shakes have been replaced with Fairlifes and energy drinks in FAANG refrigerators and squat racks are being put in pre-seed startup offices. This conversation covers the new found trend of lifting in tech, the different lifting archetypes in tech, and we discuss what it's like to be a guy with big arms at San Francisco parties with Matt Palmer, Devrel at...