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Starting a thread of books I finish in 2026
Book 1
Lesson:
Do more acts of living kindness and we can have something more like Heaven on Earth.
Kyle Russell
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Kyle Russell
@kylebrussell
building things at Valon. previously VR, games, drones, and VC
NYC
Joined June 2009
- When I found out how many shots our daughter was going to receive in the months after she was born, I thought to myself, “Wow, that’s a lot of diseases we won’t worry about” and then we got the vaccines
- Replying to @_jameshatfield_You could have stopped after saying I was statistically justified
- in 2018 I played as myself in third person by having an autonomous drone follow me and stream to a VR headset I was wearing
00:00 - I was let go by Sequoia Capital today. Buck had to stop somewhere. I was the 27 year old associate responsible for copying and pasting revenue and profit numbers from a spreadsheet in the FTX data room into a PowerPoint slide in an investment memo as diligence
- Incredible, glad to hear your children are well
- the estimated protein in the almonds is way off and it got the location of the next eclipse wrong in the launch video
- It's the year 2032. You're poor, accused of a crime, and given a public defender. It is a large language model running on the California state cloud that you access via encrypted chat on your phone
- flexing on your commute to the office in SF in 2023
00:00 - Think Valve's Steam Deck team ever thought they were building a tool for war?
- "how do they make great games consistently for 40 years?"
- MIT has had its curriculum essentially open sourced for two decades and you aren’t “technical”?
