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Andy Dunn retweeted
Today, November 11th, marks what would have been our daughter Sybil’s 8th birthday.
It has been nearly 3 years since she passed, and not a day goes by without thinking of her and missing her smile, her curls, her bright light. It is emotional to reflect on all that has transpired with our family since her passing: Bnei Mitzvah, starting high school, new friends, new chapters.
Over the past three years, we’ve focused on family, processing our grief, and reconnecting with our community. After some time and space, we re-engaged with the research community to figure out how we could make an impact toward a cure for DIPG. Thanks to your generosity and our match, we’ve raised $2.9M+ for the Sybil Sugarman Memorial Fund to date. We were excited to announce our first grant in August: $1.45M over two years to support a joint collaboration between UCSF, Stanford, and Dana-Farber/Harvard. Together, the researchers will design and test antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), short strands of genetic medicine that can be programmed to target and switch off the genetic messages that help drive DIPG, and develop ways to deliver them safely into the brain.
This is a high-risk, high-reward effort. The funding is intended to open up an area of research that has not yet attracted meaningful capital and has breakthrough potential. The approach mirrors seed investing: identify exceptional teams and bold ideas early; fund the key experiments when little or no other capital is available; and use proof points to attract the follow-on funding needed to carry the work forward. We believe this is where our capital can have the most leverage, and the greatest chance of outsized impact.
As we look ahead, we aim to raise awareness and funds for DIPG research and remain strongly committed to a cure for families dealing with this diagnosis. We’ll reach out annually on Sybil’s birthday in November to take a moment to remember her, her sparkle, sass, and the beautiful, happy memories we had with her.
As always, thank you for the many ways you have shown our family support, love, and kindness. We truly appreciate it - words cannot express our gratitude.
We humbly ask you to consider a donation to The Sybil Sugarman Memorial Fund today, in honor of her 8th birthday. We will continue to match your donations.
sybilsugarman.org/
All our Love,
Chloe & Mark Sugarman
I have an opportunity to share with @Shanemgillis. Does anyone know him who can put me in touch? Please dm.
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Andy Dunn retweeted
Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
Andy Dunn retweeted
Mother—
I marched upon Atlanta expecting Falcons, only to discover pigeons with a generous advertising budget.
The Peach Brigade was routed, their feathers scattered and dignity plucked.
Let them question my fitness for battle. I question their fitness for war.
Yours.
—CW
Hunter is a warrior poet. A hacker philosopher. A synth musician and a physics teacher. A raconteur and humanist with the most balanced enneagram I’ve ever seen. “Soul of the new machine” is his favorite book and they should put it on his tombstone. 🪦. @HunterHusar
🤯🤯🤯🤯
One more I forgot until just reminded:
3. Khosla Ventures wanted to invest in our Series C. Vinod took me, Michelle, and Lee out to dinner after he’d given us a term sheet. Near the end, Michelle and Lee got up to use the restroom. Vinod leaned over and said: “I’m impressed with you, not so much with them, what if you fire them and I’ll give you all their stock?” I think the charitable read was it was a test of my character. But I was so offended that we never spoke again. Literally blocked his number.
Andy Dunn retweeted
Be Case Keenum.
> Grow up in West Texas. Two-star recruit. One scholarship offer.
> Take it. Rewrite the NCAA record book at Houston.
> Marry your high school sweetheart, the girl you took out for snow cones before any of this started.
> Go undrafted anyway.
> Spend your rookie season on the practice squad.
> Get cut. Get claimed. Get traded. Start over.
> Get your chance in Minnesota when the starter gets hurt.
> Throw the Minneapolis Miracle.
> Help take the Vikings within one win of the Super Bowl.
> Keep moving after that, too.
> Eight franchises. Different jerseys. Different playbooks. Another chance to prove you belong.
> Through all those moves, keep building a life with the girl.
> The girl from the snow-cone date becomes the mother of your two children.
> Spend years preparing for opportunities that rarely come.
> Go 1,009 days without a start.
> Keep showing up. Keep doing the work. Stay ready.
> Then, at 38, get the call. Chicago needs you.
> Walk onto Monday Night Football.
> Throw two touchdowns. Run for another. Beat the Eagles 27–7.
> Do it with both your kids watching you play in person for the first time.
> Finish the night on SportsCenter with your little girl beside you.
All those years. All those moves. All those Sundays waiting for a chance.
And when this one finally comes, you fucking crush it with your kids looking on.
Imagine what that feels like.
There are a lot of ways to teach your children to keep going.
Letting them watch you do it has to be one of the best.
Absolute legend! 🫡
"It was so much fun. I'm going to remember this night forever. This is incredible."
QB Case Keenum speaks with @notthefakeSVP after getting the start in the Bears' 27-7 win vs. the Eagles 🏈
I’m gonna vent but it’s such bullshit how much better a woman’s company has to be than a man’s to get funded.
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Andy Dunn retweeted
John Mulaney says SNL paid him $27,000 for three primetime episodes in 2008 while his rent was $800
“I remember Steve Higgins, Shoemaker and Seth Meyers saying, ‘You’re all gonna get $9,000 an episode times three episodes’”
“I still remember walking home going, ‘I’m set. I’m set. I don’t have to do anything ever again. And my rent is $800. I’m good’”
“I went and bought new pants. There was a brand of pants called Bonobos that had just come out and they looked nice. That was their selling point. They go, ‘These pants don’t look like shit’”
THIS TWEET MAKES 13 YEARS OF MY LIFE WORTH IT. @mulaney I love you. Yours truly, @Bonobos cofounder and former CEO, Andy @dunn
John Mulaney says SNL paid him $27,000 for three primetime episodes in 2008 while his rent was $800
“I remember Steve Higgins, Shoemaker and Seth Meyers saying, ‘You’re all gonna get $9,000 an episode times three episodes’”
“I still remember walking home going, ‘I’m set. I’m set. I don’t have to do anything ever again. And my rent is $800. I’m good’”
“I went and bought new pants. There was a brand of pants called Bonobos that had just come out and they looked nice. That was their selling point. They go, ‘These pants don’t look like shit’”