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living in cantor's paradise .

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2020
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@KylerCora
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"i can't believe flo was built by men" i can.. this is the notif they give your partner btw
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it’s a wallpaper app
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@laptop_lasane @panels_art No small feat behind the scenes
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7 months
trying to explain to someone depressed that today yes, you want to die.. but soon you'll just want a long nap, and then a cleaner room, and then tea with an old friend, and then a run, and then rewarding working, and then to love, serve, and beget. and all this happens so quietly
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2 months
@crispfallday high sex drive 🔥 everything is fine 👍
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4 months
big uh oh
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7 months
i'm scared .. what's the catch
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7 months
there are some gruesome things to see on the streets of san francisco. stuff of nightmares.
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8 months
stop ✋ be so real with me right now.. you guys did NOT try to make polyamory into an optimization problem
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7 months
presented without comment
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@KylerCora
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8 months
i won't be tricked by this again. obsessing over systems is procrastination !! just do stuff, it's fine if you're a mess, just hurdle forward
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I will become organized and disciplined I will become organized and disciplined I will become organized and disciplined
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@KylerCora
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7 months
learned that my brother runs 2 local businesses without a laptop, just like, on his iphone 13 ??
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1 year
you ever start liking someone and it spills over everywhere ?? like you start wishing you could have liked them in their weird teen phase or when they felt alone as a kid, well at least you have now !! how exciting !! but in a melancholic way, it feels late too.
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@KylerCora
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3 years
If you study mathematics as a human woman, a management consultant will no joke speak to you like this ???
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2 months
i personally think it's funny
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6 months
we need to talk about the epic (hospital system software) campus in wisconsin
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@KylerCora
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11 months
happy friendsgiving to all who celebrate. remember to remain neurotically focused during game time !!
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26 days
god i’m so obsessed with hanging out with myself. reading, going to the aquarium, light drug use. it’s TOO good.
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@KylerCora
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7 months
in 2020 i modeled for a startup in exchange for $500 in amazon gift cards. now, i live with being the face of hpv treatment for yuppies.
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7 months
oh you gotta donate half of them. yeesh
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@KylerCora
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2 years
we interview people & often ask the mundane-seeming question "what does (romantic) love mean to you?" & this 20-something guy fetching a coffee, answered without hesitation "it's making each other better so that way, you can love the world more." & i think about that a lot
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7 months
i loved having depression in cambridge, england. strolling around eating blegh food, sitting on the same bench sylvia plath did. haunting. incredible. in sf, it just does not hit. eating a protein packed salad and what? jogging on the beach. okay what are you sulking for..
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2 years
so i find out AFTER being dreadfully broke in grad school, that very agreeable people in silicon valley will pay you ?? legal tender ? to teach them a little linear algebra .. ? im sick & tired of my bad timing
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some SF people in their mid 30s are like yes uh i'll be outrageously rich soon.. and truly maybe! but while wanting a family, they delay having children to noxiously bet on the upside of a very risky game.. anyways, while being in my 20s, i take this type as a cautionary tale.
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5 months
the coo of athletic greens, was the former vp of cinnabun. absolutely no thesis, just SELL. low key, i respect that.
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5 months
@jennyzhangzt yes and sharks bite them
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no, the worst thing about sf is that very clever people are clever in the same way (some annal of math, software, bit of hist & phil) u never come across someone brilliant who is a filmmaker the “artists” here are e-girls or someone’s boring wife because of their access to
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i meet founders who are like "i wish i could tweet like you but i keep my twitter professional" you are atrophying in a mind prison. you've imagined surveillance as you're afraid if you are truly free, you still won't know what it's like to be drunk off the rations of diction
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2 years
recently met someone in an "ideation phase" ie they know they want to start a company but don't know what that company would do .. honestly had no idea that was a thing - seems rather suspect, just means one wants to "lead" & "build a team" like, as a concept :/ oof
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2 years
look, effective altruism is 0% interesting—triage bad stuff, make lots of money to fix things & have kids. okay ?? the aesthetics are mid, corporate, spiritually dead. make me do something categorically insane, make me give up something i crave, give me some lore ?? sheesh
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3 years
two body problem? okay stop bragging
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men in sf with their oat milk cortados looking like they're about to get stationed in afghanistan with this backpack ??
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1 year
boomers selling their houses for $4M after buying them for 1 pint of blueberries
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7 months
i got a dark mode coding fit and a light mode coding fit
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Cartoons Hate Her!
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How I dress
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i came to berkeley a good nyt east coast liberal. i left berkeley allergic to leftists and hanging out with fringe internet people.
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People don't seem to get how goddamn awful it is to be in Southside now that the University has surrounded the Park in a border wall and has like a dozen mall cops harassing students. They said it will be like this for 3-4 years, as if people don't have to live here. This sucks!
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2 months
*humanity gets intelligence machine* *uses it to make sales emails more vapid*
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5 months
you want a 50's trad wife. that's nice. so you're going to source the 50's trad wife drugs for her, yes? do you even know about quaaludes.. ?
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15 days
rolling back up to berkeley with this energy
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i smoked dmt at a phish concert in virginia at maybe 15 ?? and then did my homework and got on with myself. and you have to like ? quit your b2b saas start up ?
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@miss_pidgey i .... i i i opted into this experience
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@menhguin @crispfallday i think you end up with a baby ?
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7 months
like a restaurant and a used car dealership but STILL
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1 year
my first week at berkeley i found myself living with 11 other people in a soft commune & i went to a free yoga class down the street, they played jeff buckley's version of the song from shrek ?? & multiple people cried, during the class ?? that's when i knew i made a huge mistake
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@metasdl i'm the one paying
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7 months
my mom mandated quiet time in the car when driving me to orchestra because i was a *asks lots of questions* kid and she was a tired. terry gross of npr would report on a harrowing story from the iraq war, i would silently process it, then play my violin for 3 hours
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1 year
me after subjecting someone to an entire evening of vocalizing my stream of consciousness
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7 months
i was just saying this ad feels.. uh bad. also i looked into freezing my eggs last year, so i do wonder what kind of deal this is for young women early in their careers. assume you're a young woman who freezes 20 eggs there's an 85% chance of one resulting in a birth! if half
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i'm scared .. what's the catch
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it's a shame to miss a good state school experience. i took a vow of celibacy, ran a radio show no one listened to, ate just eggs & ketchup, one roommate was sleeping with the library security guard, and the other one did an unprompted ironman !? extreme motley crew energy
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born to utter "i've loved you since the moment i met you, i just at the time, called it curiosity" forced to say "ily2"
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7 months
giving my inner child a jupyter notebook and noise cancelling headphones
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3 months
"sf has all the alpha" mm yes but in days away i saw women, men w/ toddlers atop shoulders, ads for music, nothing had been pumped thru the yc-ification machine. yes, new zombie forms abound, but new life too! i felt like i could make things that don't look like other things ?
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8 months
i navigated covid closures living with 11 paranoid berkeley grad students who requested 24/7 masks & house meetings from our rooms on zoom. i started leaping out the window to avoid them, smoking hand rolled cigarettes & eventually i bought a one way ticket to london with no plan
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3 years
cool!
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5 months
i don't think men should be able to hide their likes tab
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1 year
ah!
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3 years
explaining to a kid that I am also "a content creator" but I submit my content to old people and they either say "thanks but we hate it!" or they like & pay wall it, also I get no money.
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on epilepsy drugs that made me depressed (boo) !!! vs the insane amount of research i did to construct reliable sometimes wacky lifestyle protocols, thank u to all the mds & academics who answered my schizoid emails !! u saved my little life !! <3
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sometimes i meet someone and i'm like oh shit. this is a lifer, this is a life-long thing. yikes. okay, well let's get on with it.. what's you favorite color?
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9 months
WATCH THIS STARTUP
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6 months
"send us some professional photos" uh ya sure
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3 years
I'm not like other girls, the 20-something men employees at my local third wave coffee shop say "yoOo00o" to me & I do the lil intra-men head nod for coffee. Only I can do this because I audited a sociolinguistics seminar.
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one of the greatest critiques of rationalism remains that its aesthetics are out-of-shape people in a "cuddle puddle" in a carpeted berkeley mansion
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working with the grindset people is so wild because I have to be like yeah PhD is cool ! thought about what is computable, in my room, got afraid to eat anything but eggs for 4 months & thought I could probably invent an instrument
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"""meeting someone""" is so scary because you find out they don't want to eat the same thing every day
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in elem school there was a group of girls called the "cheetah girls" and they came up with dances at recess. i wanted that to be me so bad but i had to "try out" which means i DANCED for them, they would "discuss" and rate it not good enough. i did this consecutively..
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me before i know the answer to a very.reasonable. business question
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1 year
reading the autobiography of bertrand russell— "three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." he's just like me fr!
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sometimes i pretend like i've been dead before & i begged god to bring back so i could dip into a lake again, love my friends a little better, take one thousand more trips to the grocery store, a handful of those in tears- & im here !! it's all as i asked, im here !!
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if i've learned anything launching a dating app.. it's that if you are a woman 28-32 in sf open your mind to men 25-27 they are cute !! plucky !! and you fall well within their age preferences
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i REALLY judge people who wait for the crosswalk light when it's clearly fine to go. okay sheeple, slow-heads, absolutely no ambition, he'd never get a yc intervew.. that kinda thing
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imagine being me (woman, 25) trying to find love in the club (Silicon Valley) while understanding blockchain (passed number theory) and thinking crypto is fundamentally hyper-financialization (I'm a socialist).
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@timgill924 as a grad student I do something very brave & rarely practiced called “not speaking in seminars” & reading other articles on arXiv while nodding, excessive hydrating & hiding in the largest jacket I own
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doing a "75 hard"
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thinking about how when i came back to america everyone was like *you're going to miss europe* and instead i was like we mog you guys hard, you know nothing of 7-eleven slurpees and btw the velvet underground is the best art rock band. one nation under god. usa usa usa
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@ks_kulk he was an outside kid and i was a screen time kid, and now he's stuck in my playground.. living with mobile apps only. tables turn
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stanford people have fed energy
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@colderoshay people definitely talk about it
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@AdamWhitcroft it is indeed, news to me as well
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8 months
uhhh uhm uh. not sure how this helps me run a dating app but alas..
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5 months
i'm obsessed with this.
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for the record, im currently at ~70% that we're all dead in 10-15 years from AI. i've stopped saving for retirement, and have increased my spending and the amount of long-term health risks im taking
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why am i the right person to build this company? i was nocturnal during my phd, so i would go to the same awful bar after a few hours of deep work. i became friends with an escort, sometimes i would watch her toddler.
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OH in sf "you can feel the react native when you try to type an instagram caption, just horrible"
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now that i'm my moms age (27) when i was little, everything makes sense. yelling out kanye lyrics in her honda, dancing to the morning mtv videos, and roller skating inside. i felt like she was also so new to the world, and we were both like uh okay, what do we do ??
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25-26 are not okay ages for women. i went thru a stage of looking at baby clothes and i don't have a baby ?? just truly deranged years but also look at this.. it's so precious
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my teacher had to explain to me i might be being bullied.. and i was like nah i just have to be better at dancing, what do you not understand about an assessment ?? i love autism spectrum disorder
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taking turns in the sun spot
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WE DID IT JOE
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i'm scared .. what's the catch
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@secplsnobully i simply did not realize ..
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my short stint on sf hinge radicalized me like you wouldn't believe ..
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i just think getting a dating app right is genuinely the most important thing i can do - they're pretty momentous products. all the interactions we inspire feel vital & special to me - literally thank you <3 this damn app is my ode to love & im starting to feel full !!!
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divorced dads were low key onto something with liking red hot chilli peppers. i truly get it.
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SOON started a revolution in startup marketing (flyers) also with the random cybertruck this is the most SF image I have ever seen
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two children ? in a trench coat ? "lecturing" about "building recommendation systems"
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i should be able to get a negroni at starbucks
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you wouldn't believe what it's like to have cameron howe vibes in an era of soft femininity and age gap discourse
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tech people obsessed with saying don't waste time! brotherrr, it's not going to work on me. last time i was bored i wrote my own music notation called dora. ?? wouldn't even call that learning, purely vibing. i yearn to waste, it's so aristocratic i love it.
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