Members of Technical Staff

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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 Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.

  1. 3D AGO

    Navigating the SF Social Scene as a Straight Dude

    I booked a $1k-a-night hotel room and, instead of feeling the touch of a woman, I decided to talk to myself on camera for nearly 40 minutes. Anyway, the San Francisco social scene. Is X the key to the city? Is it worth going to networking events? Are Partiful or Luma events better? Should we take a page out of the gay playbook? I cover all of this and much more so you, too, can make some friends in the centre of the universe. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    37 min

  2. JAN 4

    🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Chinese Peptides Made the NYT, with Sina Hartung

    So it really is a new year, new me, because I made The New York Times for my commentary on unregulated Chinese peptides. My dear friend Sina joins me to break down the article and give serious, nuanced takes on peptides and wellness risk profiles. We also touch on the Nicholas Maduro kidnapping and how we each monitored the situation. MOTS will always be here in the event of emergencies, because the timeline never sleeps. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    34 min

  3. JAN 1

    New Year New San Francisco, with Matt Palmer

    The world needed another podcast of two single straight dudes giving predictions for 2026, so don’t ask and you shall receive. @mattyp and I covered four key topics with our predictions: San Francisco culture, San Francisco as a city, technology, and finally some wild cards. Will San Francisco’s party resurgence continue, and will we keep giving LLMs so much context that they have to start going to therapy? We cover all of this and much more. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    37 min

  4. 12/30/2025

    🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Looksmaxxing Into 2026

    Looksmaxxing is on the cards for 2026, and that’s something I know a thing or two about. I decided to take on Clavicular at his own game and mog him. I also dropped some caution around Chinese peptides before breaking down different gyms in SF and giving my final recommendation. This emergency pod has you covered for looksmaxxing in San Francisco in 2026. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    17 min

  5. 12/26/2025

    2025 Timeline In Review, with Valentina

    The X timeline giveth and the X timeline taketh away. From Chinese social media apps to accounts becoming the main character for weeks, the 2025 timeline had it all. Valentina joins me to break down the current thing for each month of 2025. Don’t want to spend 16 hours a day on your phone keeping up with what’s happening? This is the perfect episode for you, because I do and I am well-researched. Happy New Year, everyone. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    48 min

  6. 12/18/2025

    Tech Bros Deserve Love Too This Christmas, with Valentina

    It's Christmas time and everyone is scrambling to book meetings, close rounds, and decide whether to see their family or go skiing. However, one important thing must be discussed before all the technology brothers take off for the holidays: what the hell do we even get them for Christmas? Valentina joins me to break all of this down, and we do a little bit of shopping with our AI overlords, and it turns out the AI likes technology. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    32 min

  7. 12/12/2025

    🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Cline's Head of AI Was Fired

    Woke is back! Was Cline's Head of AI being fired due to VC pressure or a severe miscalculation? I have no idea, but my unemployed ass would never let a good crisis go to waste. In this episode I cover the initial Twitter comment that drew criticism, the reactions, the fallout from the apology, and some classic startup comms slop. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    18 min

  8. 12/11/2025

    Y Combinator Demo Day F25, with Spor

    It's the quarterly startup equivalent of the NBA draft, and I was lucky enough to be let in as neither a founder nor an investor. YC Demo Day F25 has come to a close, and I sat down once again with my friend Justin (@sporadica) to recap it all and talk about YC's impact on the niche San Francisco technology culture. I also caused a bit of a ruckus at Demo Day itself, and you can hear from some of the founders and faces I ran into throughout the day. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference trains and deploys custom language models for some of the fastest growing companies in history. If you're spending more than $50,000/month on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, they can help you save money, improve quality, and ultimately make your business more efficient.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card visas easy for technical talent and fast-growing teams. From free evaluation to streamlined onboarding, personalized support and full document prep they get your top engineers, researchers and founders through the visa journey in weeks not months. Trusted by startup builders who don’t want immigration to be a blocker.Trufflepig is the AI-native spreadsheet software that allows you to work at the speed of thought and they’re hiring. Join a fast-growing AI startup building something that people will actually use.Morph is the better way to apply AI code edits. Merge LLM changes into your code and files - at 10,500+ tokens per second. 98% accurate + 2x faster than search-and-replace.

    36 min
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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 Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.

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  • Creator
    Atlas Media Labs
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Members of Technical Staff
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