EJ Lawless @elawless Twitter profile

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Excited to push back on the Facebook money; republican donors; and uber wealthy, non-SF $$$ backing Chesa Boudin.

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@elawless

9 months

@jason_kint I went through some of the examples NYT provided and cant recreate any of them. How does that get handled in a court? How does the court verify that the materials provided by the NYT are authentic and unaltered?

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@elawless

7 months

@garrytan Interesting dichotomy between: Vision Pro making massive amounts of visual information available at once. -and- LLMs acting as mini agents, reducing a humans need to self-parse large amounts of information.

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@elawless

3 years

I dont understand the, "recalls arent democratic argument". Recalls are in the state constitution, require a large number of humans to sign for the recall, and then to vote on it.

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@elawless

3 years

People in SF are more concerned about the few hours a year of noise from our military than the daily noise of gun shots, fireworks, and side shows. Vamping instead of fentanyl. The 1% of learners that take AP calc than the 50% with insufficient math or reading skills

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Just paid SF property taxes, one of my most morally questionable actions. How does the city get by operating injection sites that are illegal on a Federal and State level?

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@elawless

4 years

If San Francisco were a Texas city, it would be the 6th largest by population. Behind Fort Worth (which, Im guessing, never crosses your mind). Yet -- SF has a budget the size of Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and Fort Worth -- COMBINED.

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@elawless

2 years

I want a San Francisco that not only can I raise my kids in, but also one where my kids want to, and can afford to, live in. Critical elections coming up with the District Attorney, Board of Education. What else? What are people* watching and contributing to? *Non-DSA people

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

@micahjay1 For $39 I get lower medical bills, more productive years, shared social experience. Tangible benefits. For $10 I get unactionable insights of uncertain veracity.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

I joined Indeed to lead a 3 person Online Marketing group. That group is now a 60 person group spanning 15+ countries & TV, audio, search, & social. Indeed says they want an Indeedians next job to be at Indeed... Im stoked that Im joining Indeed's Corporate Venture Group

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

@PJBworldview Politicians more attached to a specific methodology than outcomes The growing and self sustaining non-profit/narco industrial complex The lack of outcome/data oriented professionals that enter government

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Excited to vote in this election! Truly thankful for all of the hard work by @recallsfboe , visible advocacy by @garrytan , and of course financial support from @garrytan @DavidSacks and everyone else fighting for kids in SF Also happy to support @bilalmahmood

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

@LuigiCPA This seems crazy. Are there any written accounts of this and what “restorative justice” means in this case? What if people say no?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

@RachelRMarshall This is harmful framing. Anyone who replaces Boudin will be for social justice reform (in SF). Framing Boudin as THE face means equating a policy that is more deadly than covid (in SF). This is about his fitness for office, not social justice reform.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

Angellist but for recalling politicians. Easy to populate recall forms, fundraising, and marketing tools.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@bettersoma I don’t understand why @chesaboudin and @DeanPreston don’t attempt to regulate this like other SF small businesses: permitting, licensing, no franchised businesses, 50%+ tax rates, $20 min wage, health insurance, pension, etc. why does this billion dollar enterprise get a pass?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

11 months

What Ozempic is doing for health, AI will do for upskilling and reskilling. The US public education system, like our health system, fails many. Time & time again, studies show AI benefits the least knowledgeable and experienced the most. Rather than the education system

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

22 days

@WillManidis Where are you conjuring this straw-rich person from? Even if one took the all-in pod, they seem to have 3+ kids, regular get togethers with friends, and have passion for what they do.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

50 ways to lose in angel investing (a non-exhaustive list): -The company goes bust -The entrepreneur never converts the SAFE/raises -The company operates w/o ever exiting (no acq, no ipo) -The company doesn't clear it's preference stack on an acquisition More...

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Robert Half ($RHI), another 70-year-old staffing firm, beat EPS by 30% and its permanent placement business is up 100% YoY. All segments (tech, finance, temp staffing) were up.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@dtgillard @DeanPreston 👆 @DeanPreston , You're not making the point you think you're making. 10%+ of Walgreens store closures have happened in a city that has .5% of those stores. Because walgreens is cutting costs and these SF stores ( because of theft) are less profitable than other stores.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@garrytan She ran unopposed. Need to make sure to have a non-socialist candidate run when her term ends.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

10 months

@terronk @garrytan "Unlike private industry, the city doesn’t tend to move too fast. But breaking things? That it can do." Perfectly encapsulates Peskin and DSA BoS members. Given SF's rampant corruption issues, I wonder what being "a good partner" looks like.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Really surprised Dean Preston hasn’t suggested SF take over SVB (to become his community bank).

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@elawless

2 years

@MylesPynchon @michelletandler I think the current incentives support this. These scenes create more demand for non-profits. The non-profits, and their growing employee base, can actively campaign for the supervisors that fund them. Urban Alchemy has 1300 employees and expanded out of state.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Things I want from CA politicians: -Make it less expensive to own a home -Make it safe to raise a family -Stop enabling overdoses -Public education that works -Make it less expensive to start a small business CA cant achieve its aspirations while being unafforable & unsafe

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

1 month

@Scott_Wiener You do not need to comment on every single item that goes on in the world. Put Twitter down, take a breath, touch grass everyone once in awhile.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@DavidSacks How will that interact with the ruling that unsheltered individuals are allowed to sleep in public spaces if there aren't other options? I dont think Austin has the housing capacity for everyone to move into.

Supreme Court upholds homeless right to sleep in public places

The court refused to review a lower court ruling against Boise’s law against sleeping or camping in public.

thehill.com

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

@callmeed @tszzl America's public schools should be better, given how great the country is.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Im taking a 60 day sabbatical starting August 1st. My plan is to focus on learning and connecting. Particularly Robotics and DAOs. Im planning to experiment with ROS, Solidity, Dune. What should I learn, who should I try to meet (Bay area)? (will also volunteer in sf)

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Ex-employee bots In BigCo, employees become valuable because of time-in-job. Understanding corporate history and context is important. No good solution exists for this. With all communication recorded creating chatbots of ex-employees (gpt3) is a solution

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

@chesaboudin Almost every category of crime is up except car break ins. Break ins are down because tourism has stopped. Because of covid. Being realistic about what is happening is helpful.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Fantastic #camphustle event put on by the @HustleFundVC crew! Insightful & inspiring speakers that delved into entrepreneurship, investing, & crypto. Amazing chance to meet IRL with the Angel Squad crew (such a smart, kind people) HF is building something truly special!

Jaireh angel invests in big ideas 🦥

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2 years

Class yearbook with the (🦥,🦥) crew at #camphustle . Thanks for all the memories.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

@michelletandler As a parent, the playgrounds here are 🔥. Assuming they are safe (free of needles) and clean (no excrement).

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

5 months

Every. Single. Day. Hard to share an OpenAI acct with @clairevo when her side project keeps growing.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Seeing your personality emerging in your young kid is both edifying and horrifying

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Just closed funding on another syndicate deal 🍾 and learned lesson. The ability craft a good memo and email are 🔑. A few 💡 1) Every deal must be oversubscribed. Ideally 3-4x. Please keep it believable. If it's 7x over and you're still looking for funds it's not believable.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

Three houses on my block in SF went up for sale at the same time. All three pending. All over list. All were priced aggressively. IPOs? Inability to build housing? A desire to be in SF? Something is supporting prices here.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Second tech event in two weeks - 100+ people each time… Keep an eye on SF, something might be happening here. (Also, more non alcoholic options at events, y’all. They run out the fastest)

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Performance marketing at mature companies and early stage companies differs in three key ways. Time horizon Larger companies are able to go from a multi-quarter to a multi-year view. This means optimizing not for short-term revenue but for long-term revenue.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Angel investing in web3 companies that provide tokens, not equity, is (beneficial) regulatory arbitrage. private market liquidity options in trad equity investing are slow, expensive, and opaque. Public market compliance burden too high to go public sooner.

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@elawless

2 years

“Of the 515 tenants within permanent supportive housing that were followed by the city, 25% died while in the program. 21% returned to homelessness, and 27% left for an “unknown destination.” 27% moved in with friends or family or moved into another taxpayer-subsidized building”

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@Jason

2 years

What a complete failure of leadership: Despite Spending $1.1 Billion, San Francisco Sees Its Homelessness Problems Spiral Out Of Control | Hoover Institution

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

21 days

@mualphaxi @garrytan This seems like it would discourage founder-led companies being publicly traded. The tax liability founders might have because of Fed policy decisions wouldn’t be worth the benefits.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Easiest carry arbitrage in the small angel game right now. Join the @RUV_Alliance , learn about new deals weeks before they hit angellist. Pay 0 carry or fees. Direct access to foudners. Save 20% when those deals get syndicated out by well-known leads. h/t @HarveyMultani

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Just closed the 6th investment through Full Outer Join (FOJ), a syndicate of Indeed employees! Four things I wish I had known before getting started 1) Have a set of education resources - For many, FOJ was their first angel investment.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@opeawo 🔥 what’s the main way people get development skills in Nigeria right now? Self taught? Universities? Boot camps?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 months

Dropping a new Indeed Ventures event series: Founder Chats. Starting the first one off very strong with repeat founder @ChrisJBakke ! If you're building in the future-of-work Chris has great insights on raising, scaling, and exiting. Thank you for @codiwork and SVB for

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

I can find (in seconds) the list of the world's wealthiest men, highest paid men, or fittest men. But the list of the world's best husbands? Or Best fathers? 75% of divorces are filed by women. 25% of children grow up without a father in their household. 🤔

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Hot take: providing a physical separation between work and home has psychological benefits. Most people can't afford to have a work shed. A common space for employees to regularly congregate & work would improve well being.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

Because of the forest fires I invested in an indoor air quality monitor that also watches C02 levels. Now I know that about half the times I felt tired and wanted a coffee, C02 levels were high. I just needed to open the windows.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 months

@blader What are the most appealing aspects? I can’t find great examples of legislative achievements.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

My best life advice so far. Find (and keep) a partner that is smarter than you, kinder than you, more successful than you, and inspires you to new levels. @clairevo is spoken for, but I’m sure there are many great partners out there!

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Lifetime employment + pensions (Baby Boomers) Job Hopping + 401k (Millennials) 2 jobs, a personal Agency, Influencer partnerships, a teachable course + student loan forgiveness (gen z) A YouTube account opening toys and play-to-earn Fortnite + custodial ira (gen alpha)

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

If you are walking in SF and don't overhear 5 conversations about AI, are you even in SF?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

What are the robust and rigorous studies of safe injection sites, relying on primary trials?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Reading studies on the efficacy of safe injection sites is a frustrating exercise. Meta studies that reference other meta studies that reference some set of studies in Vancouver in 2012. The Vancouver study ends up citing surveys of users from 2006.

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@elawless

2 years

Q:Why do B2B marketers suck A: If you were really good at marketing, you’d go into consumer with much bigger budgets and room to be creative. If you really cared about B2B, you’d go into sales. -Logan Bartlett Shots fired

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

I realized i felt financially comfortable when I stopped buying $8 boxed wine and started buying $8 bottled wine.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

1 year

How did no else tell me about @gpt_index ? From a business analysis perspective, this is a big unlock.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

24 hours kid free with the wonderful and incomparable ⁦ @clairevo ⁩. Beautiful morning in SF for the last few hours.

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@elawless

4 years

@Contextify1 @michelletandler It looks like this crime rate uses 2019 census data for the population. Why not adjust both for the population decrease and also consider the 50% drop in tourism?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

@richieSF2016 @LondonBreed She is securing a political appointment from Newsom with this move.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

From Amazon earnings call: “Labor became our primary capacity constraint, not storage space or fulfillment capacity," Brian Olsavsky, Amazon's chief financial officer Act accordingly.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Going into the office for the first time in two years. On BART. Combing through my commuter backpack, with room for gym clothes, pockets for pens and snacks, feels like doing pre-covid archaeology. I used to live how? Weird.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

@JeanineSuah Acquired Wisdom Fund ( @awfundvc ) invests in “seasoned” professionals

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSes) & Resume database, the ubiquitous, low NPS software might be most open for disruption by web3 (within HR). First - what are ATSes?

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

🔥 Coming in hot 🔥 Inaugural episode of 'HR Tech GTM' a podcast focused on going to market within the HR Tech & future of work space. 🎉

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

No/low code tools are amazing. Ten years ago starting a web app meant giving up 50% equity in a company to get a working CRUD app. Nocode tools make it doable in a few days.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Corporations that are headquartered in Texas have a unique ability to push back on the laws in Texas. Send the message that the health and equality of all employees matters. Relocate HQs out of Texas. Divest of TX commercial real estate. Actions > words

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Q2 2022 Robot sales: $585M @ average price of $43k. Q2 2021 average price per robot - $53k Median wage of a US worker - $53k, up 5% YoY. We're going to witness the play out of inflationary labor vs deflationary mechanization and production.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

After wanting to live in SF since 2005, and finally moving here in 2017, my least favorite part is how temporary it feels. Schools & safety always top of mind concerns.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

10 months

@emollick That seems like an intentional choice by Bing to control costs. GPT-3.5 is materially cheaper to run than GPT-4. They could easily relabel the button if they wanted to drive use of GPT-4.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Happy anniversary of @clairevo 's minting 🎂!!! Thank you for being a wonderful life partner and truly fantastic mother. Your patience, kindness, and love are inspirational. Your intellect and ambition make our lives easier. You're truly badass. Happy Birthday! 🎉

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

“Our garage window was melted with a blow torch on Friday night/Sat morning. “

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@elawless

3 years

A solution that allowed resumes to be centralized, updatable, controllable, AND gave the resume owner incentive to participate would benefit all involved parties (except the ATSes & resume databases...). What would allow this? Web3. Might be time to mint your first resume.

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@elawless

2 years

In a few years, about half the labor force will engage in some type of freelance. There are at least 6 publicly traded freelance marketplaces. Despite solid gross margins (~80%) they are mediocre businesses. TXN size is small, take rates are low, and variability is high

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@clairevo New profile pic, who dis

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@elawless

3 years

5) Follow ups. Follows should be within 2 hours & say "80% funded" within two hours!!! Then another send an hour later saying 2-3x oversubscribed (see point 1) The first 10 people to like this tweet will receive a free NFT guaranteed for at least one future tweet mention. 🔥🐦🚀

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

65+ and sunny in SF. Beautiful (and lively) night in the mission. Spoke with a founder that moved back to the city. BoE (and then Chesa) about to be recalled.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@HillaryRonen What a tepid response

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@adams19080 @ShellenbergerMD We need a way to conscientiously object to local taxes. Paying for people to overdose feels like one of the least ethical financial choices I make. Happy to pay the same amount to some other cause, just not the non profits that profit off of this cycle.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

2 years

Creating in public 🧵 Just launched a new YouTube channel. Video is harder than audio, and I have a lot to learn on doing a podcast well. Descript makes it easy to edit audio. It can edit video, too, but matching up video scenes with talking and movement is harder.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@harryhurst I’ve found Investing time in the beginning of the interview to give background context on the role, company, and what you are looking for yields much better conversations. There many ways to direct a story, but a candidate can highlight the salient parts with background context.

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@elawless

3 years

The vast majority of work is doing asynchronously and through text communication. It feels anachronistic that the majority of the interview process is simultaneous and through video/in-person. Good email and IM skills are required in the current knowledge workforce.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

5 months

Took my 5 year old on his first waymo ride. Seeing the curiosity and joy was great. “Where is the driver?”, “Is there an invisible person?”, “How does it see?” “This is so fun!”, “I love waymo!”

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@elawless

2 years

The ability to work within a core timezone, +/- 3 hours is an under appreciated employee benefit.

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@elawless

3 years

20 something me quit my job every two years and co-founded (at least) 3 companies. 20 something me would not have understood working at a 10k person company for 5 years. I still learn new things (basically) every day.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@anothercohen @agazdecki Not going to be the anchor LP in your child’s first venture fund? Poor kid

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

4 years

@rossmatican I found Season of The Witch by Talbot enlightening. I had no idea that concerns about homelessness and drugs stretched back 50-60 years.

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@elawless

4 years

@MyTwolffamily @sfchronicle @hknightsf @KevinChron I don’t get this. The city basically ran Juul out of town, but pays to support drug dealing. If a company acted the same way as the city, people would run it out of town.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@JesseTinsley More recruiters should lead with this...

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@elawless

3 years

Fantastic morning over in Chinatown. SF feeling friendly and alive today

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@elawless

4 years

@HarveyMultani Beautiful city. Easy access to nature. Lots of parks. Great neighborhood with good restaurants and friendly people.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

🚨 Dropping this fine Saturday: Bringing @kleoverse to market with @aLoytynoja , it's founder! 🚨 Kleoverse aims to create a new resume based on blockchain-verified work. Think LinkedIn for web3. This solves a problem I recently considered: .

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@elawless

3 years

Centralized resume databases provide one place for you to update your resume, but they own and sell your information. You make no money off the resume database.

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@elawless

3 years

As a newer resident of CA, being able to drive over a particle accelerator, by a radio antenna that communicated with the voyager spacecraft, to world class surf, all within about an hour is pretty amazing.

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@elawless

3 years

@JoeHeslinga @CryptoDadsNFT Thanks for this morning's FOMO as I missed the pre-sale and public sale.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

@agazdecki It’s not just how many millions you keep, but how many employee millionaires you create, too. Bootstrapped companies can give equity ownership to employees, but it’s rare. Also have you considered audio ads from @Decibelads ? Audio + smbs = 💰

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

. @patrick_oshag has many fantastic podcast episodes, the latest with @gabusch on the metaverse was one I enjoyed the most in awhile. It's also a glimpse of the future of work in the metaverse.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

3 years

Two years without stepping foot in an office. One day back. Im good. Offices are ngmi. Surprising to me: The pandemic upped expectations for teleconferencing video & audio quality. Execs upgraded their telepresence with high-quality cameras, microphones, & lighting.

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EJ Lawless

@elawless

11 months

Love the “it all starts here” sf campaign, but trying to scale top line before fixing in product (safety) issues is a well known way to visibly crash and burn.

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