bright lighting enthusiast, founder @brighterlamp
San Francisco
Joined July 2018
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Exciting personal update — I've been working on building the world's brightest lamp, with the goal of getting daylight levels of light indoors.
We just launched on Indiegogo an hour ago; I'm especially proud of the video!
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Introducing Kino: make videos end-to-end with Claude Code and Codex.
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My theory is @Railway has been compromised for a while now - 4 months ago I had to rotate an openai key bc of sudden usage, and my twilio account has been suspended for suspicious activity twice in the same time frame. Both of these are only used for a personal tool nobody else knows about, and both are on railway. Only now that that incident happened did I put the pieces together.
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“Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”
Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).
In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”
4:08 Finding your husband before the exit
8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?
18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”
20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?
23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend
28:54 SF cat parties
WTF is a SOTA Wife?
SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley.
We built it as an antidote to the performative polish of tech Twitter.
Brought to you by @MilksandMatcha x @vivianmshen.
Episode 1 goes live on Monday, 12th October at 9 AM PT on everywhere you get your podcasts 💙
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WTF is a SOTA Wife?
SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley.
We built it as an antidote to the performative polish of tech Twitter.
Brought to you by @MilksandMatcha x @vivianmshen.
Episode 1 goes live on Monday, 12th October at 9 AM PT on everywhere you get your podcasts 💙
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This software engineer built the world's brightest lamp with no hardware experience.
Simon Berens, founder of Brighter, joins us to share how he did it.
00:00 Intro
00:16 A software engineer with no hardware experience
01:14 Why light wakes you up before you open your eyes
01:51 Leaving software for the pain of hardware
02:10 $10 deposits on a $50 Fiverr render
03:14 Finding it resold on Facebook Marketplace
03:26 Inside the lamp, part by part
04:37 60,000 lumens, or about 75 light bulbs
05:09 Why it costs $1,200
05:22 400 backers, $400,000, and shipping every one
06:16 Turning it on
07:34 3 factories and 2 trips to China
07:58 Tariffs went up 150%
08:32 Indoor light is 100 times dimmer than the sun
09:28 His favorite consumer product
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A billion people produce the most valuable dataset in the world every day – and delete it every night.
We’re recording it.
Introducing @AttentionInc
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Alpha School is trying a new entrepreneurial high school track: make $1 million by graduation or get your tuition back
When I say that our current education system is failing our highest potential students - this is what supporting high achievers looks like when it’s done right
Our top students absolutely have the potential to be millionaires before they graduate high school, but today they’re held back by anti-excellence ideologues who insist that we not let anyone pull ahead
Make $1m by graduation.
Or get 100% of your tuition refunded.
That's the promise of the new high school for entrepreneurs Cameron and I are launching this fall through @AlphaSchoolATX.
We need 2-3 coaches to help make it happen.
DM us or apply!
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i read california's entire $498 billion budget so you don't have to
the wealth tax is supposed to fix our deficit. instead its accelerating it
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it's been 3.5 years since openai released whisper, and ios dictation is still somehow worse. Is android much better? I think that'd be enough to get me to switch
