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 Atlas and Lan as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.
Episodes
6 episodes
Congratulations On Your Unemployment, with Andi Duro
In San Francisco you are lauded and in New York City you are exiled. This conversation covers being unemployed in the big cities, the different labels the unemployed give themselves for status, and we discuss what it's like to see the unemploye...
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36:57
The Yoked Chads and Staceys of Silicon Valley, with Matt Palmer
The Soylent and Huel meal replacement shakes have been replaced with Fairlifes and energy drinks in FAANG refrigerators and squat racks are being put in pre-seed startup offices. This conversation covers the new found trend of lifting in tech, ...
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36:21
Agentic Workflows and the State of the AI Hype Cycle, with Sam Hogan
The AI hype cycle is in full swing and now agentic workflows are all the rage. From prompt engineering to asking for AGI timelines on dates. This conversation covers the AI hype cycle buzz terms up until this point, what agentic workflows even ...
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32:53
996 and the Rise of The Striver in Silicon Valley, with Turner Novak
Those in Silicon Valley have adopted 996 and you know this because they will simply tell you about it online. From pictures of girlfriends being fired to pictures of laptops are open at the bar. This conversation covers the adoption of 996 in t...
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32:06
The Quest for Beauty and the Evolving Tech Bro Stack, with Max Marchione
Those in Silicon Valley now want to be hot and are willing to cut all kinds of corners in order to get there. This conversation covers the evolution of the modern day tech bro wellness stack, how unregulated peptides have become normal among th...
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32:39
Fixing the San Francisco Party, with Madison Kanna
While tech-adjacent parties in San Francisco are home to the most powerful social circles on the planet they come with a few negative stereotypes. No shoes, no small talk and no women. This conversation covers the etymology of the San Francisco...
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