Members of Technical Staff
Welcome to Members of Technical Staff: week-after-week of prestige narration from the hotbed of San Francisco tech culture. Featuring founders, funders, and fanatics, join Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.
Episodes
48 episodes
Breaking the Silicon Valley Mould
I took @NicoleSHsing to some hot pot and we spoke about a few things:- The classic Silicon Valley mould - Tech bro hobbies- Bridging art and technologyRestaurant staff hates to see a white boy armed with DJI mics and a...
The Art of the Banger, with Signulll
@signulll and I went through some of my favorite posts and accounts of all time and attempted to explain why they are good.Thank you @a16z for having us. Thank y...
Will Github Survive AI? with Sam Lambert
It's been a while since we got a little technical on MOTS so I caught up with @samlambert to ask him about what is happening at Github and the fallout as one of the world's most loved pieces of software st...
SF Factions You Should Know About, with Kylie Robison and Noah Smith
SF is nothing without its people so I brought on some of the greatest in @kyliebytes and @Noahpinion.We covered:- the different groups you can find in SF-...
MOTS Extra: Leaving Parties to Check on AI Agents
In today's MOTS extra I sat down with @tejasybhakta of @morphllm to get a little technical.We covered:- programming with a piano foot pedal- leaving parti...
Personal Style in SF, with Jason Liu
@baelentina_ and I visited @jxnlco the other day to discuss whether dressing well in SF is low status or not, personal hygiene and how technology brothers should be more...
Social Media Tribes, Algorithms and the Permanent Underclass, with Signulll
I turned @signulll into an ominous gray blob as we sat down in Alamo Square to talk about normal people things like how social media is tribal again, the X dot com the everything app algorithm and the perman...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 RFK Announces Peptide Reclassification
RFK announces peptide reclassification!What does this all mean? Will the technology brothers finally be able to source peptides not of the sketchy Chinese kind? Is this legalization or a different thing? Are the technology brothers going to...
The State of AI Startups
I had @0thernet over and instead of just hanging out over coffee or tea like normal people we decided to podcast like absolute morons. Anyway this MOTS extra is timely because I got a glimpse into the state ...
San Francisco Social Interactions
I had both @baelentina_ and @NicoleSHsing over for some tea and to discuss different social interactions you might experience in San Francisco.We broke them do...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 TBPN Acquired by OpenAI, with Theo Browne and Ben Davis
I visited Theo Browne and Ben Davis to break down the monumental TBPN OpenAI acquisition and what this means for all of our favorite buzzwords like...
Getting Jacked in San Francisco
Due to popular demand I sat down for 40 minutes by myself and talked about my arms (very normal) and where to train in San Francisco. Also this is a call out to startups: ad space on my arms are for sale and i believe will become some ...
San Francisco Side Quests and Goth ABGs
The weather in SF has been perfect so @NicoleSHsing (summer is literally in her name) and I set up on a park bench directly in the wind and talked about different side quests in SF and goth ABGs. Eve...
An Update on the World of Peptides, with Max Marchione
Since @maxmarchione and I last spoke a bunch of things have happened in the world of peptides from RFK's reclassification to Andrew Huberman posting to people discovering that bodybuilders got there firs...
The Politics of Tech and AI, with Noah Smith
Yesterday I visited @Noahpinion for some tea, to play with rabbits and to get political. From the tech right to old twitter vs Elon twitter to Anthropic vs DoW, we talked about the politics of tech and AI ...
The AI Anxietification of San Francisco
@ashebytes and I have decided that everyone needs to get offline, find some hobbies and go touch some grass (and a woman in my case) in order to overcome this wave of AI-induced anxiety. In this episode of ...
Are Software Engineers Screwed? with Sam Lambert
I took a trip to the PlanetScale office last week to chat with @samlambert about a couple of under-discussed topics:- AI (heard it's a big deal)- Anxiety- Are software engineers screwed?I h...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 The Gay Tech Mafia
You didn't ask and I delivered! Seeing as I made an appearance in yet another mainstream publication what better way to increase my surface area for career risk than podcast about it? here are my thoughts and reactions to Wired's piece, "
Valentines Day in San Francisco, with Valentina
@baelentina_ and I cohosted a Valentines Day SF rager with @zocomputer last night. We broke down Valentines Day restaurant locations in SF, dating anxiety in SF ...
Gym Bro vs Bio Bro: Peptide Edition, with Max Marchione
I wouldn't get used to polished MOTS but I figured what better way to announce a @superpower partnership than to bring in some cameras and microphones and have a super serious debate on peptides and looksm...
The State of X Dot Com, with Roon
I turned @tszzl into an ominous gray blob as we sat down with dearest @sofi_a and @baelentina_ to discuss the state of X Dot Com the ev...
Training with Navy Seals, with Blackbox
I took a trip to the salesforce tower to talk to the @blackboxai guys about the leaning Millennium Tower behind us, training regiments of navy seals and pushups in this MOTS extra.Watch on
Can a Psychic with LLMs Predict My Future? with Gillian Obrien
Today is the day everyone finally finds out my sexuality using the power of tarot and LLMs. Dearest psychic Gillian Obrien joins to me facilitate the prediction of my future and I welcome Blackbox AI and Zo Computer to the MOTS mafia.Wat...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 xAI Engineer Fired for Podcasting?
Another day another current thing in the niche San Francisco technology culture. Was Sulaiman Khan Ghori, a former xAI engineer fired for podcasting or was this some sort of grand exit? If he was fired, did he release xAI secrets or did ...
The Real Perception of AI, with Anton Troynikov
While AI is eating the world, it turns out that most people don’t actually like that idea, and current messaging around AI is on track to make things worse. What are AI vibes like in places outside of San Francisco? Does the layperson see produ...