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David

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David

@DavidSHolz

founder @midjourney, previously founded leap motion, before that was at nasa and max planck - vibeposting @davidvibesonly

San Francisco, CA

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David
@DavidSHolz
Jan 27, 2025
i wish i could do more - i wish i had a thousand hands and a thousand eyes and a thousand years and army of angels and a thousand stars that lit the sky so bright that the night would never come and that our sleepless dreams would fill this world
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David
@DavidSHolz
Dec 23, 2022
the greatest tragedy of our modern age is that anger is loud and love is quiet
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David
@DavidSHolz
Feb 15, 2025
i find it so strange when people say they can't afford kids. your ancestors were able to afford kids for the last 300,000 years! are we *really* less wealthy now? you might think your parents were better off, but how about further back? they still went on.
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David
@DavidSHolz
May 25, 2025
in the 1900s, it was common to dream of the 21st century. when was the last time you heard talk of a 22nd century? it's like we don't believe we're going to make it anymore, but to endure, we MUST dream of futures worth suffering for. please, dare dream of a 22nd century.
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David
@DavidSHolz
Jun 21, 2023
I'm 14, at the beach in my hometown, feeling like "whatever" it so boring, who cares really? And then this woman ran out onto the sand and exclaimed "It's the ocean!" I ask "what?" "I grew up in Colorado. I've never seen the ocean. My God! There's so much water" tears began to
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David
@DavidSHolz
Mar 13, 2025
in 2013 i met a very close friend of Steve Jobs and i remember saying "there's one thing i absolutely have to know, it's really important to me" he responds "okay what is it?" i ask "what was all the money for?!" puzzled "what do you mean?" "Steve Jobs saved up like 200 billion
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David
@DavidSHolz
Jan 23, 2025
i regret to inform everyone that working out does in fact make you feel better
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David
@DavidSHolz
Jul 8, 2023
we don't even count anymore
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David
@DavidSHolz
Oct 14, 2024
the rocket catch isn't just like an engineering victory, it's a cultural-spiritual one too, it stirs in us a deep yearning for science, physics and the objective truth. once you taste it, you know we must have more and this hunger itself may be the driving force of civilization
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David
@DavidSHolz
Sep 14, 2025
42% of Americans have vitamin D deficiency and 79% are not getting enough magnesium? how much of modern "anxiety" and "tiredness" is just a combination of vitamin D and magnesium deficiency?
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David
@DavidSHolz
Oct 31, 2024
If you stop looking up—towards transcendence—you start looking around—towards envy
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David
@DavidSHolz
Sep 10, 2024
had an emotional moment staring at a running faucet this week. we really don't appreciate civilizational infrastructure. literally "pay as you go" unlimited clean drinkable water delivered to everyone, physically piped straight to you and whisked away as soon as you dont need it
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David
@DavidSHolz
May 29, 2025
(at spacex) i saw oxygen snow in zero gravity. i saw methane bubbles shimmering like crystal glass and liquid oxygen swimming pools that ripple like silk. i remember sunset plasma vortices flickering through compressed data streams at mach 25. pink. you think it glows on its own,
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David
@DavidSHolz
Feb 15, 2025
Replying to @DavidSHolz
my great-grandmother raised 10 kids by herself after her husband passed away and it was maybe the greatest generation our family ever had. they all stuck together, the kids became entrepreneurial. i was always in awe of that group of siblings, and in many ways i envy them still
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