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Welcome to Members of Technical Staff: week-after-week of prestige narration from the hotbed of San Francisco tech culture. Featuring founders, funders, and fanatics, join Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.
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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 build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditio...
@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 development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and...
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 developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual ...
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 platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with...
@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 developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less...
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 over the timeline. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered so...
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 an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, t...
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 faster and with less manual effort than traditional tools.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card v...
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 build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditi...
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 timeline from today's latest talent scandal in Silicon Valley. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts ...
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 this and much more with Sina, and my good friend Anton Troynikov, founder of Chroma, also joins me...
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 in the centre of the universe. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference...
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 the timeline never sleeps. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference tra...
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 to therapy? We cover all of this and much more. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. S...
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 Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growi...
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. Happy New Year, everyone. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference tra...
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, and it turns out the AI likes technology. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inf...
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 Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. I...
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 from some of the founders and faces I ran into throughout the day. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spo...
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. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing compan...
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