Tim Wagner
@timwagner.bsky.social
Yay Area fan, creator of Sevenn, climate change angel investor and adventure wingman
How much do you spend monthly on Netflix, Spotify, substack etc? $20? $100?
Now ask: how much do you give to support your local club, group or IRL space?
If you love a community, don't just consume. Help keep it going with funds, time, stuff or your talent!
🫶#buildirl
Now ask: how much do you give to support your local club, group or IRL space?
If you love a community, don't just consume. Help keep it going with funds, time, stuff or your talent!
🫶#buildirl
June 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
How much do you spend monthly on Netflix, Spotify, substack etc? $20? $100?
Now ask: how much do you give to support your local club, group or IRL space?
If you love a community, don't just consume. Help keep it going with funds, time, stuff or your talent!
🫶#buildirl
Now ask: how much do you give to support your local club, group or IRL space?
If you love a community, don't just consume. Help keep it going with funds, time, stuff or your talent!
🫶#buildirl
The quality you get out of life is asymmetric to the energy you put in.
Be dependable: Show up more
Be curious: ask better questions
Be proactive: don’t just attend, participate and gather
Be grateful: thank your friends, fuel them.
Life is short, don’t coast!
Be dependable: Show up more
Be curious: ask better questions
Be proactive: don’t just attend, participate and gather
Be grateful: thank your friends, fuel them.
Life is short, don’t coast!
June 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The quality you get out of life is asymmetric to the energy you put in.
Be dependable: Show up more
Be curious: ask better questions
Be proactive: don’t just attend, participate and gather
Be grateful: thank your friends, fuel them.
Life is short, don’t coast!
Be dependable: Show up more
Be curious: ask better questions
Be proactive: don’t just attend, participate and gather
Be grateful: thank your friends, fuel them.
Life is short, don’t coast!
1/ I wasn’t going to comment on the Elon vs. Trump showdown. But the algorithm had other plans.
Here’s my hot take:
Here’s my hot take:
Sevenn
Sevenn connects you to friends in new ways and helps you do more of the things you love. See who else wants to do things on your list and discover new places to go.
sevenn.co
June 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
1/ I wasn’t going to comment on the Elon vs. Trump showdown. But the algorithm had other plans.
Here’s my hot take:
Here’s my hot take:
1/ We're not just living in the AI era—we're being reshaped by it.
Technology influences our cognition, behavior and society in profound ways.
Like social media before it, artificial intelligence will rewire our habits and perceptions. This future is already unfolding.
Technology influences our cognition, behavior and society in profound ways.
Like social media before it, artificial intelligence will rewire our habits and perceptions. This future is already unfolding.
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
June 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
1/ We're not just living in the AI era—we're being reshaped by it.
Technology influences our cognition, behavior and society in profound ways.
Like social media before it, artificial intelligence will rewire our habits and perceptions. This future is already unfolding.
Technology influences our cognition, behavior and society in profound ways.
Like social media before it, artificial intelligence will rewire our habits and perceptions. This future is already unfolding.
1/ “Around my friends, I’m usually the most social, but when I’m on it, it feels like my spark is kind of gone”
ADHD diagnosis rates among kids has steadily risen for three decades from 3% to 12%. Most are prescribed Adderall or Ritalin and many continue to take into adulthood.
ADHD diagnosis rates among kids has steadily risen for three decades from 3% to 12%. Most are prescribed Adderall or Ritalin and many continue to take into adulthood.
June 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
1/ “Around my friends, I’m usually the most social, but when I’m on it, it feels like my spark is kind of gone”
ADHD diagnosis rates among kids has steadily risen for three decades from 3% to 12%. Most are prescribed Adderall or Ritalin and many continue to take into adulthood.
ADHD diagnosis rates among kids has steadily risen for three decades from 3% to 12%. Most are prescribed Adderall or Ritalin and many continue to take into adulthood.
Reposted by Tim Wagner
If I had a band, I’d probably call it “Jevons Paradox.”
(Check out the hashtag #JevonsParadox if you’re not sure what that is.)
What would YOUR band name be?
(Check out the hashtag #JevonsParadox if you’re not sure what that is.)
What would YOUR band name be?
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If I had a band, I’d probably call it “Jevons Paradox.”
(Check out the hashtag #JevonsParadox if you’re not sure what that is.)
What would YOUR band name be?
(Check out the hashtag #JevonsParadox if you’re not sure what that is.)
What would YOUR band name be?
When I think back to my favorite childhood memories I’m pretty sure most wouldn’t happen in today’s world with ubiquitous phones and social media.
Although I do think we have lost something irrecoverable, the world is not going to go back, the question is how do we go forward?
Although I do think we have lost something irrecoverable, the world is not going to go back, the question is how do we go forward?
May 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
When I think back to my favorite childhood memories I’m pretty sure most wouldn’t happen in today’s world with ubiquitous phones and social media.
Although I do think we have lost something irrecoverable, the world is not going to go back, the question is how do we go forward?
Although I do think we have lost something irrecoverable, the world is not going to go back, the question is how do we go forward?
Kevin Kelly's slideless TED talk on AI in 2016 is has aged exceptionally well.
Four things he touched on that are still worth contemplating as we build the future we want to live in:
Four things he touched on that are still worth contemplating as we build the future we want to live in:
May 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Kevin Kelly's slideless TED talk on AI in 2016 is has aged exceptionally well.
Four things he touched on that are still worth contemplating as we build the future we want to live in:
Four things he touched on that are still worth contemplating as we build the future we want to live in:
“Shame-based people have pain. Grandiose-based people have trouble.”
-Terry Real
Full interview:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/p...
-Terry Real
Full interview:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/p...
Why Boys and Men Are Floundering, According to the Relationship Therapist Terry Real
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“Shame-based people have pain. Grandiose-based people have trouble.”
-Terry Real
Full interview:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/p...
-Terry Real
Full interview:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/p...
Reposted by Tim Wagner
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Intentionality, persistence and action are the three main ingredients for magical compounding interest, whether for finance, skills or relationships
May 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Intentionality, persistence and action are the three main ingredients for magical compounding interest, whether for finance, skills or relationships
1/ In technology we often talk about the possible when we should talk more about the probable.
As the pace of change has accelerated and technology like social media and AI have rippled out to influence more things, the cost-benefit equation has changed.
As the pace of change has accelerated and technology like social media and AI have rippled out to influence more things, the cost-benefit equation has changed.
May 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
1/ In technology we often talk about the possible when we should talk more about the probable.
As the pace of change has accelerated and technology like social media and AI have rippled out to influence more things, the cost-benefit equation has changed.
As the pace of change has accelerated and technology like social media and AI have rippled out to influence more things, the cost-benefit equation has changed.
Reposted by Tim Wagner
Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Once a street mainly used to store parked cars, now it's full of life. Cities can change and streets can be redesigned for people, not parking.
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Once a street mainly used to store parked cars, now it's full of life. Cities can change and streets can be redesigned for people, not parking.
Things AI can’t do:
Play pickleball with you.
Drive you to the hospital.
Watch a sunset together.
Go on vacation and ride a zipline.
Give you a hug.
AI is an incredibly powerful tool, but it can only simulate real friendship.
We are social animals and conversation alone isn’t enough.
Play pickleball with you.
Drive you to the hospital.
Watch a sunset together.
Go on vacation and ride a zipline.
Give you a hug.
AI is an incredibly powerful tool, but it can only simulate real friendship.
We are social animals and conversation alone isn’t enough.
May 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Things AI can’t do:
Play pickleball with you.
Drive you to the hospital.
Watch a sunset together.
Go on vacation and ride a zipline.
Give you a hug.
AI is an incredibly powerful tool, but it can only simulate real friendship.
We are social animals and conversation alone isn’t enough.
Play pickleball with you.
Drive you to the hospital.
Watch a sunset together.
Go on vacation and ride a zipline.
Give you a hug.
AI is an incredibly powerful tool, but it can only simulate real friendship.
We are social animals and conversation alone isn’t enough.
Social media isn’t just escape or staying up to date. If we don’t create hard boundaries it steals our most finite non-renewable resources: our time and attention.
So delete apps, use app blockers and turn off visual/audio/haptic notifications. Your brain, friends, partner and kids will thank you.
So delete apps, use app blockers and turn off visual/audio/haptic notifications. Your brain, friends, partner and kids will thank you.
April 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Social media isn’t just escape or staying up to date. If we don’t create hard boundaries it steals our most finite non-renewable resources: our time and attention.
So delete apps, use app blockers and turn off visual/audio/haptic notifications. Your brain, friends, partner and kids will thank you.
So delete apps, use app blockers and turn off visual/audio/haptic notifications. Your brain, friends, partner and kids will thank you.
“The bottleneck of the digital age is different: The new era is killing us softly, by drawing people out of the real and into the virtual, distracting us from the activities that sustain ordinary life, and finally making existence at a human scale seem obsolete.”
April 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“The bottleneck of the digital age is different: The new era is killing us softly, by drawing people out of the real and into the virtual, distracting us from the activities that sustain ordinary life, and finally making existence at a human scale seem obsolete.”
1/ “What is the best model for X right now?“
This is increasingly the apex question for so many areas of life.
I currently use sonnet 3.7 for coding, 4o for general purpose questions, o3 for deep research / analysis.
This is increasingly the apex question for so many areas of life.
I currently use sonnet 3.7 for coding, 4o for general purpose questions, o3 for deep research / analysis.
April 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1/ “What is the best model for X right now?“
This is increasingly the apex question for so many areas of life.
I currently use sonnet 3.7 for coding, 4o for general purpose questions, o3 for deep research / analysis.
This is increasingly the apex question for so many areas of life.
I currently use sonnet 3.7 for coding, 4o for general purpose questions, o3 for deep research / analysis.
A friend said this last week and can’t stop thinking about it…
“People today are choosing really interesting hills to die on”
“People today are choosing really interesting hills to die on”
April 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A friend said this last week and can’t stop thinking about it…
“People today are choosing really interesting hills to die on”
“People today are choosing really interesting hills to die on”
Happy (belated) 415 day! I ❤️ SF
April 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Happy (belated) 415 day! I ❤️ SF
1/ 99% of life is showing up. Not just your presence, but your attention and proactiveness.
Notice who shows up.
Notice who lingers.
Notice who helps without being asked.
These are the people saying “I’m looking for this too".
Notice who shows up.
Notice who lingers.
Notice who helps without being asked.
These are the people saying “I’m looking for this too".
April 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
1/ 99% of life is showing up. Not just your presence, but your attention and proactiveness.
Notice who shows up.
Notice who lingers.
Notice who helps without being asked.
These are the people saying “I’m looking for this too".
Notice who shows up.
Notice who lingers.
Notice who helps without being asked.
These are the people saying “I’m looking for this too".
Coffee with friends knocks AI off the top position on the #1 online board for hardcore tech builders 👀
This says a lot about our deep hunger for social connection…
This says a lot about our deep hunger for social connection…
March 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Coffee with friends knocks AI off the top position on the #1 online board for hardcore tech builders 👀
This says a lot about our deep hunger for social connection…
This says a lot about our deep hunger for social connection…
Growth requires discomfort as you move to new places and stretch new muscles. When you leave old habits and familiar relationships. Classic video always worth rewatching:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUA...
How do Lobsters grow?
YouTube video by The Founders Mindset
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Growth requires discomfort as you move to new places and stretch new muscles. When you leave old habits and familiar relationships. Classic video always worth rewatching:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUA...
@noahpinion.bsky.social take on @ezraklein.bsky.social’s new book Abundance is 🔥, progressives are badly in need of a philosophical reboot.
We should be focused on outcomes not methods, especially when almost everybody is beating us on outcomes!
We should be focused on outcomes not methods, especially when almost everybody is beating us on outcomes!
March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@noahpinion.bsky.social take on @ezraklein.bsky.social’s new book Abundance is 🔥, progressives are badly in need of a philosophical reboot.
We should be focused on outcomes not methods, especially when almost everybody is beating us on outcomes!
We should be focused on outcomes not methods, especially when almost everybody is beating us on outcomes!