Gary Chou @garychou.com · 07/08/2026I used to fly in for work and hit up all of the Japanese restaurants which were way more chill + interesting than the omakase crazed Instagram clones of today 020
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 23/01/2026One of the best “wake up from a very satisfied nap” feelings out there 020
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 17/12/2025If you want yet another business to run: an elite workshop helping highly networked people w/multiple businesses build their own JFDI would be neat. I think bespoke software really has to be self-made by the individual. Too many quirks + they'll need to iterate/adjust over time. 100
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 17/12/2025Like, as a PM building a product for a large general user base you'd have a hard time justifying all the design decisions you made in your product. But then, that wouldn't ever really work for you. We're in a new era b/c the cost has just dropped tremendously. 100
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 17/12/2025haha, I should be more precise with my praise: I think this is a great example of the ability for people with a strong idea of how they want to work being able to just go build the software they need to enable it. 100
Reposted by Gary ChouRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...open.substack.comTaking Jaggedness SeriouslyWhy we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters 89029
Reposted by Gary ChouCatt Small @catt.design · 20/11/2025People keep saying nice things about my course. Wild that over 150 students have participated since July of last year. 2181
Reposted by Gary ChouCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 04/11/2025watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did itdefector.comSelling Zohran | DefectorOn a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE... 5968201
Reposted by Gary Chouchris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.docs.google.comI’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis SliwaI’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa 8438112
Reposted by Gary ChouCarrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025"Our takeaway is that mainstream fact-based journalism plays a central, if not the central, role in helping extremist politicians capture public attention." www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...niemanlab.orgHow American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news. 02320
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 08/08/2025The full backstory is here: orbital.nyc/blog/relaunc... and for those who were familiar with pre-pandemic Orbital, this is a nice framing of where I'm headed with all this: orbital.nyc/aboutorbital.nyc 000
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 08/08/2025Tbh I built this mostly for myself—my work is primarily solo and spread across different projects. And, there's no one to run a formal review process for me. The Membership gets me a structured process + (hopefully) some great folks who are on their own interesting journeys to learn from and with. 100
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 08/08/2025It's not an online course or another Slack to commit your life to. The whole experience is mostly async and is designed to be a lightweight complement to help bring structure and clarity to your busy life, rather than to be an additional responsibility or social obligation. 100
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 08/08/2025Hi folks—I'm starting a new club for people who want to reflect and learn with others. I promise it will be fun if you are into this kind of thing—request an invitation here: orbital.nyc/membershiporbital.nycOrbital Membership – Quarterly reflection, curated by Gary ChouAn invite-only learning network where thoughtful professionals commit to quarterly reflection and share their key lessons. August cohort requests now open. 162
Reposted by Gary ChouTed Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 05/08/2025Okay, sorry sorry, I can't let this thing from @ghost.org's post go. When Ghost says it now connects to all these places including Bluesky, what they don't mention is that the Real Heroes, completely unmentioned in the post, are @snarfed.org, @quillmatiq.com & @anew.social and their @ap.brid.gy. 27521
Reposted by Gary ChouAlex Hillman @alexhillman.com · 05/08/2025Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba. If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.tiny.mbaThe Tiny MBA Book - Alex HillmanYou don't need an MBA or fancy investors to be successful in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate and execute on your built 6177
Reposted by Gary ChouAnil Dash @anildash.com · 24/07/2025As someone who has run platforms with millions of users creating content for communities with large numbers of queer and marginalized creators, here’s what I’ll say: there are, effectively, almost no real choices for payment networks if you want to allow regular people to pay for your service. So… 422348
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 18/07/2025I've been managing it as one-offs and attempting to convert back to email 😂. Are you doing more outbound vs. inbound? 100
Reposted by Gary ChouChris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 26/06/2025I'm so grateful for the community that's grown around PHP× in general and PHP×Philly specifically. So I was really excited to find some time to chat with @alexhillman.com about the 20 years he's spent tending the Indy Hall community, and see if there are any lessons he's learned that can translate… 0115
Reposted by Gary ChouUnbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/05/2025We’ve got our first (of many!) pages up with more to come. First up, details about efforts to eviscerate Medicaid, with up to $880 billion in cuts, likely to lead to millions of people losing their sole insurance: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...unbreaking.orgUnbreaking — How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.unbreaking.org 214147
Reposted by Gary ChouLeon Yin @leonyin.org · 01/05/2025NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w 813187
Reposted by Gary ChouMina Markham @minamarkh.am · 08/04/2025Randomly thinking about how in the future of Firefly everyone spoke Mandarin. I always wondered how that might have happened. 4498
Reposted by Gary ChouCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 26/03/2025Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that: skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...skamille.medium.com10 Years of Engineering LaddersOn March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder, with a quick intro… 55819
Reposted by Gary ChouRon Bronson @ronbronson.com · 01/03/2025I once saved an agency around $2 million on a modernization project because of a bad contract they had, it took me several phone calls and less than a week. You need alignment and air cover to pull stuff like this off, but the game changing is stuff we weren't even allowed to promote or talk about 7526124
Reposted by Gary ChouRon Bronson @ronbronson.com · 26/02/2025We're live. Excited for you to join us on this journey & for @joelgoodman.co for designing our band photo. 072
Reposted by Gary ChouCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 06/02/2025www.argmin.net/p/are-radiol...argmin.netAre radiologists finally out of a job?No. 051
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 24/01/2025A recording of Part 1 is up here: www.linkedin.com/posts/garych...linkedin.comGary Chou on LinkedIn: Join me next week, as I share lessons learned from my research project… | 19 commentsJoin me next week, as I share lessons learned from my research project into funding innovation in the social sector! This will be my first LinkedIn Live so… | 19 comments on LinkedIn 001
Reposted by Gary ChouGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025this looks super good I love how things are working out for ke huy quan. he seems like a really good guy 39814
Reposted by Gary ChouLeon Yin @leonyin.org · 22/01/2025NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... 33710234
Gary Chou @garychou.com · 17/01/2025And, here's some context I wrote last year: garychou.com/the-opportun...garychou.comThe Opportunity Beyond the Uncertainty👋TL;DR: I’m seeking philanthropic funders to collaborate on grantmaking experiments in 2025 that are focused on supporting risk-taking and experimentation. Thanks to a grant from Nick Barr and the f... 111
