imagine -> engineer -> build
we all did it when we were kids. we can all still do it now!
Middle school egg drops taught us about basic physics. Now they’re reminding us of the joys of engineering.
Thank you for coming out for the Great American Egg Drop, it was really something. And thanks to @neros_tech for the drones.
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You know Digger is good because leftists and rightists both like it
And also because it has a perfect 50% on Rotten Tomatoes
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Death is the culmination of of life. Instead of Don’t Die (?), we can only hope to die a beautiful death
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very excited to work with nikole at @AmcaInc -- we are building a world-class design/marketing/brand/comms team to build a radically new world around what we believe industrial America should feel like
we are inspired by the work that IBM, Pan Am, TWA, Westinghouse, and NASA did in their prime. if you are too, we are hiring across all fronts
DM us!!
I am the American Dream.
My mom was 8 when she immigrated from the USSR and landed in the Bronx projects. My grandma sewed fur coats and my grandfather was a taxi driver. He was 5”3, had a great attitude, and got a job at a kosher butcher shop. Years of hard work led him to owning a chain of shops across NY. My mom started a cake business out of the stores in high school. Calvin Klein was one of her customers.
My father immigrated on his own after the fall at 19. He started as a driving school instructor, then a dispatcher, and now he runs a fleet of car services.
I have been raised to prioritize family, community, and hard work. I have been given every opportunity a person could ever ask for. I have two degrees from Harvard. A career I am proud of. Friends who love me.
And I am now moving across the country to help build a company that is making sure our American dreams continue to be lived.
Happy Birthday and God Bless America. I love you with all my heart.
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~is taste subjective or objective?~
When you say that something is beautiful, good, or true, you reveal your taste, broadly understood
When we say that someone has good taste in architecture, we generally mean that they can appreciate the aesthetic beauty of a manmade space. When we say that someone has good taste in people, we generally mean that they can identify genuine goodness in someone. And when we say that someone has good taste in ideas, we generally mean that those ideas accord with the truth, i.e., objective reality
But what really are aesthetic beauty, human goodness, and ideal truth? When you experience these three qualities in a place, person, or idea, you feel on the one hand a kind of union with them; and on the other, a kind of dissolution of your self
A beautiful town snaps you into the vital present-ness of rich life; a genuinely good person often makes you feel seen, not for the you that you think you are, but the you that you really are, which is that part of you that is shared with everyone else; and a truly insightful idea seems to come from a place not within yourself (it’s why we call it a “flash of insight”)...
In this common feeling of unity and self-dissolution that beauty, goodness, and truth can evoke, I come to think that these traits are actually all the same thing, and that thing is the quality of God, which is objective in the sense that God is all encompassing, but also subjective in that we all contain a part of this quality
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~my favorite book~
A great book should do one of two things: change the way you see the world, or change how you act in it. For me, the only book that has done both is Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West
There are so many assumptions that people make about the world that we believe to be universal truths, but instead are really conditioned beliefs. This may sound trivial, but the set of ideas in the latter category is much deeper than most people believe
For instance, take the fact, which you’ve probably never thought about before, that if one were to ask the question, “Is now the best time ever to be alive?”, any affirmative answer would likely be justified with some set of line graphs in which “time” is plotted on the x-axis against some metric like life expectancy, infant mortality, or poverty
The mere fact that the concept of time can even be spatialized in this way is reflective of a distinct framework for mathematics that the Gothic culture (Spengler’s name for the Western culture) uniquely generated for its specific spirit
Spengler makes you realize that much of what you believe to be base reality is actually a kind of cultural matrix, which is an incredibly psychedelic experience
Once you see this, you realize that things even as fundamental as our culture’s relationship to space and time, let alone arbitrary concepts like money, are entirely malleable
this changes how you act
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i'm hiring a creative ops lead @AmcaInc to help with executing on complicated projects that requires uncompromising taste -- everything from factory renovations, additional office buildouts, 250+ person events, and more.
DM me if this is you
Charlap Hyman & Herrero adds custom workstations to futuristic LA office:
dezeen.com/2026/06/14/charla…
ethics and aesthetics are one….
The point of the corgi cafe isn’t the interior design, although that’s something we’re improving (and there’s a lot more coming soon with the cafe). The point of the corgi cafe is it’s the only place where I am 100% certain that there are billion dollar companies being founded, probably several per month. So many people have told me they met a vc who gave them a term sheet in the cafe, or applied to yc and got in there, or met their cofounder, or got their dream job, etc. Critiquing the aesthetics is missing the point, it’s like me saying youtube isn’t good because the like button design isn’t very pretty. The corgi cafe is a network effect product.
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"The basis of all production should be the unity of functions, including the aesthetic functions of an object." - Max Bill
thank you to @dezeen for showcasing our new office. @AmcaInc is building a radically new industrial base for America, and our office is a living representation of this work. we worked with our designers to bring new life to the mid-century futurism that dominated industrial enterprise when it had tons of spirit.
we’re picking up where they left off
Charlap Hyman & Herrero adds custom workstations to futuristic LA office:
dezeen.com/2026/06/14/charla…
live jazz and cocktails on our sexy new rooftop in El Segundo next thursday from 7:30-10pm - RSVP here:
partiful.com/e/QITelC1i2E4B0…
nate is one of the smartest and most talented people i know <3. he is working on an incredibly noble problem, and this is the first of many ways he and his team are going to change how we treat neurodegenerative disease
Human biology matters. Scientists and AI need human data to understand health and disease.
Crownlands is open sourcing Gateway 4M, the largest single-cell tissue dataset ever released from living humans, to advance research on brain aging and neurodegeneration.
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i’ve long told my friends that the only company I’ll ever work at is Amca.
i spent a year before joining exploring all sorts of stuff. during that year, I was frustrated with the soullessness and abstraction of companies in SF, but wanted to work with extremely effective people and escape the bullshit of neocorporate America.
to my dismay, nothing fit this mold - except the company that I knew my former business partner Jai was starting. i now get to work with many of my closest friends, turn ideas into reality in weeks or months (like this office), and shape how we build physical things in America.
we now have an extra $300 million to do this, and I’m hiring a wide range of people across design, business operations, strategy, special projects, “comms”, talent, and more.
many of the roles I hire for are shaped for the people who we meet, since we work across so many domains. so if you can’t find anything that fits, but any of this resonates, see below
I'm excited to announce that @AmcaInc has raised a $300M Series B at a >$1B valuation, led by @CaffeinatedCap with major support from @LightspeedVP, @a16z, @Lux_Capital, and others.
We're on a mission to reconstitute a supply chain that has too often put profit over country.
it’s obvious that the value of a business is no longer the present value of its future cash flows. good riddance! such a framework implied that human labor should be minimized ad infinitum, but is there not intrinsic value in meaningful labor? certainly the christian monastic and buddhists thought so…
a business with zero future cashflows but that provides fulfilling work for thousands is no value-less business, no matter what a DCF model tells you
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this is why my girlfriend and i are eloping in the woods this summer
I am unfortunately developing a disgust reflex towards weddings & marriage. The diamonds, the humiliation ritual engagement photo sessions, the posed intimacy, the exotic destinations. All for show. To post and to outdo. Love is a costume. The union is not sacred, it’s not the entire purpose; it’s just the consequence of a big aesthetic party