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Back deck: March 15, 2024

We made another great edition Friday. Early, somehow Ricardo talking taking photos around town (he and Lino have been urging each other on, apparently) took us through Bear Ryan and then a collection of hoaxes and benevolent pranks, including: Max Kolomatsky who...

Positive Reactions

Eric Burton of Black Pumas: “The hardest thing here in Austin, especially for people like me, is just being able to maintain on a level where you are eating every night, you are able to shower. It’s harder to do it as a musician.” posted by Andrew...

Back deck: March 8, 2024

We enjoyed another great hangout. Early conversation got technical about oil exploration and production, heavily featuring Jeremy who works in software / data analytics for oil exploration and Chris, a chemist whose company produces soap “pills” used in...

Back Deck: March 1, 2024

I had to leave early and still got a ton out of this edition. RD brought the mastiffs, who are massive. My favorite part of this morning featured a large crew deep-diving on the market for domain names, including some pretty epic buy/sell tales going back decades....

On the Marc

Per usual, Andrew Chen’s recent “How to break into Silicon Valley” shares good ideas like: ask for intros add value to conversation (want practice?) have a “thing” find your cult write in public While Austin remains a rounding error...