Readit Newsmeagher commented on Angel Investors, a Field Guide jeanyang.com/posts/angel-... · Posted by u/azhenley
He's a retired pro basketball player. He's since made early investments in companies like Hugging Face[1], Coinbase, and Robinhood.[2] If you earn millions in your 20s, didn't spend it, and have a killer work ethic, you can flip careers to professional investor.
Idk why nobody's done a good feature on him.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kevin-durant-investment-portf...
[2] https://parlemag.com/2025/04/kevin-durant-business-ventures/
I'm not questioning his investment abilities, just curious what he offers that is strategic (advice, dealmaking, etc).
Aside: Saquon Barkley's (pro football player) portfolio is insane https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/saquon-barkley-investment-p...
meagher commented on Angel Investors, a Field Guide jeanyang.com/posts/angel-... · Posted by u/azhenley
> Martin and Mike both advised strategic angels instead of friends and family to fill out the round, so that’s what we did.
How is Kevin Durant (pro basketball player) a strategic angel for a monitoring/observability company?
Every time I see animation discussed by designers, they're thinking about it in terms of polish and "delight", and then balancing those things with perceptual latency. It's not entirely incorrect, but a couple of minor nits:
1. Delight is overblown, in my opinion. I think most of the people truly delighted by fancy animation are just other designers.
2. It's more useful to think about state when deciding when to animate. Could the user have trouble perceiving the change in state that just occurred? If so, then use an animation to help them visualize what happened. I believe this is the primary reason to use an animation - all others are vanity.
> Delight is overblown, in my opinion
Nerdsnipe perpetuated by other engineers/designers admiring it on Twitter. Nothing wrong with that, just shouldn’t pretend that most users care.
meagher commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
> heavy electric vehicles have a lot more tire dust
It would be interesting to know the fleet-level statistics for this. Driven by humans, EV might wear tires faster because of fast starts and the extra weight during stops. It's possible that the Waymo Driver accelerates and decelerates more smoothly, resulting in less tire wear than a human-driven ICE vehicle.
That would be great! Even if EV pollution is zero, cars still take up a lot of space in a city where space is very limited.
meagher commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
They will probably gain way more by the removal of parking lots that comes with it than by losing rides to pedestrian traffic or bikes.
NYC doesn’t have a lot of surface parking lots.
meagher commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
meagher commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
I'm not sure why you think waymo would fight against that. People getting rid of their own cars for daily use will increase how often a service like waymo is used for occasional usage. In the long run it would be a win for waymo. Not many people are taking taxis on a daily basis in New York for normal driving, they buy a car if they need to do that because even with the parking bill they will still come out ahead. And once they have their own car they feel like they need to get some use out of it.
> not sure why you think waymo would fight against that
If you were to pedestrianize 10% of Manhattan (or for example all of Broadway, which is being considered), then that’s less area for Waymo to operate and make money. To be clear, this is likely more of a long term issue.
meagher commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
> pedestrianizing more of the city
Replacing dangerous, dirty, noisy cars with safe, clean, and quiet ones seems like a huge pedestrianizing step.
What's a "low traffic neighborhood"? Does that allow busses or deliveries?
It’s a step in the right direction, but they still pollute (heavy electric vehicles have a lot more tire dust) and take up a lot space (could close roads and build housing or just have more space for the millions of city residents that don’t have/use cars).
LTN still allow buses, emergency vehicles, deliveries, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Traffic_Neighbourhood
Taking the risk was one of the best decisions I've made, but if I had a chronic health condition/higher healthcare costs, probably would not have been comfortable.