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I'm the inaugural section chair and I'd love to build out our leadership team with other attorneys who code.

Flying very fast from ~W > ~E; i.e., from Marin County, appeared to be coming from Mt. Tam headed over Tiburon.

Confirmed NOT ISS (was below horizon then); confirmed NOT airplane (checked FlightAware).

No haze in the sky (this was from Marin County). Other stars and moon were crystal sharp, yet this was very blurry/hazy glow, so at first, before I could tell how fast it was moving, I thought it was a comet, before immediately checking myself that (a) no comets are scheduled now; (b) that would be an insanely bright comet; (c) it had no tail which would be expected of such a bright comet.

But then it disappeared rapidly over a period of several seconds as it dipped into the Earth's shadow (similar to how the ISS would vanish after sunset, too).

A friend (literal actual rocket scientist) said perhaps it was the X-37 returning; but I can't see any record of a recent return since OTV-6 in Nov 2022.

Anybody?

Subject, basically.

Somebody really needs to build an AI plugin/extension for gmail that creates an email digest (simple bullet points) of all your newsletters.

Optimally: it can filter out only the specific sub-content that you're interested in from those newsletters. That would be EPIC.

Anybody?

So this may be a fairly common concept to many people, but weirdly, it only occurred to me a decade or so ago, and I've really come to love it; it's helped put me in the correct mental state regarding several pressing issues over the years.

And before someone says something like "yeah, that's what following the data is all about" or something similar, I agree: plenty of times working at our startups in the past I certainly had to make a business decision I didn't like simply because I couldn't disagree with the data.

So I guess that's a fairly good example, but I'm curious to hear of other examples where you really don't like something -- or perhaps you're opposed to it, for instance, for religious reasons, or simply because of how you were raised I suppose -- but you're nevertheless compelled to agree with it and to support it just because it's the most correct thing amongst all other alternatives.

It could be a philosophical belief or idea; a political view; a social/cultural value or behavior; a legal matter; really just about anything.

After years of cruising along on autopilot, it's time to find Twibble a new home. It's either that, or just pull the plug. If anybody's interested, please write me at marc at twibble dot io.

Hey Boston founders, I recently relocated to the Boston area from SF and I've been appointed Boston Chapter Director. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the Boston tech scene; if you're looking for VCs; or just want to get hooked up with the right people and get serious about networking again. I also have a limited number of invites for Founders Network, so we can discuss that too. Cheers!