Gary Chou's Avatar

Gary Chou

@garychou.com.bsky.social

563 Followers  |  313 Following  |  49 Posts  |  Joined: 10.05.2023  |  2.0808

Latest posts by garychou.com on Bluesky

Okay, sorry sorry, I can't let this thing from @ghost.org's post go.

When Ghost says it now connects to all these places including Bluesky, what they don't mention is that the Real Heroes, completely unmentioned in the post, are @snarfed.org, @quillmatiq.com & @anew.social and their @ap.brid.gy.

05.08.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
The Tiny MBA Book - Alex Hillman You don't need an MBA or fancy investors to be successful in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate and execute on your built

Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba.

If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.

05.08.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

As someone who has run platforms with millions of users creating content for communities with large numbers of queer and marginalized creators, here’s what I’ll say: there are, effectively, almost no real choices for payment networks if you want to allow regular people to pay for your service. So…

24.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

ah... have you tried partiful?

18.07.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been managing it as one-offs and attempting to convert back to email πŸ˜‚. Are you doing more outbound vs. inbound?

18.07.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

reluctantly so yes

18.07.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so grateful for the community that's grown around PHPΓ— in general and PHPΓ—Philly specifically.

So I was really excited to find some time to chat with @alexhillman.com about the 20 years he's spent tending the Indy Hall community, and see if there are any lessons he's learned that can translate…

26.06.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Unbreaking β€” How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us. unbreaking.org

We’ve got our first (of many!) pages up with more to come. First up, details about efforts to eviscerate Medicaid, with up to $880 billion in cuts, likely to lead to millions of people losing their sole insurance: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

19.05.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 9

Hit me up with the best Sinners think pieces

15.05.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social
@pollymosendz.bsky.social
bloom.bg/43am95w

01.05.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

We’re doing the thing 😭

23.04.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Randomly thinking about how in the future of Firefly everyone spoke Mandarin.

I always wondered how that might have happened.

08.04.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
10 Years of Engineering Ladders On March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder, with a quick intro…

Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that:
skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...

26.03.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 9

Enjoy an egg sando for me!

26.03.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh this looks great!

09.03.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that light looks amazing!

09.03.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone have a favorite multivitamin?

09.03.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jury service has strong squid games vibes.

06.03.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I once saved an agency around $2 million on a modernization project because of a bad contract they had, it took me several phone calls and less than a week.

You need alignment and air cover to pull stuff like this off, but the game changing is stuff we weren't even allowed to promote or talk about

01.03.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

We're live. Excited for you to join us on this journey & for @joelgoodman.co for designing our band photo.

26.02.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I strongly concur

25.02.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is timely, thx for sharing!

07.02.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Are radiologists finally out of a job? No.

www.argmin.net/p/are-radiol...

06.02.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Gary Chou on LinkedIn: Join me next week, as I share lessons learned from my research project… | 19 comments Join me next week, as I share lessons learned from my research project into funding innovation in the social sector! This will be my first LinkedIn Live so… | 19 comments on LinkedIn

A recording of Part 1 is up here: www.linkedin.com/posts/garych...

24.01.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this looks super good

I love how things are working out for ke huy quan. he seems like a really good guy

23.01.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

22.01.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 732    πŸ” 240    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 43
The Opportunity Beyond the Uncertainty πŸ‘‹TL;DR: I’m seeking philanthropic funders to collaborate on grantmaking experiments in 2025 that are focused on supporting risk-taking and experimentation.Β  Thanks to a grant from Nick Barr and the f...

And, here's some context I wrote last year: garychou.com/the-opportun...

17.01.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Part 2: Post-Grant Process Retrospective Β· Luma Join us for a live, unscripted retrospective on "Funding Innovation in the Social Sector", a year-long grant project exploring how philanthropy can better…

Also, for the process nerds, I'm doing a live unscripted retrospective on Monday, Jan 27 where I reflect on the process with Nick Barr.

Watch my face as I receive the gift of feedback: lu.ma/5a4vkxeh

17.01.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Part 1: Funding Innovation in the Social Sector Β· Luma What if the social sector could embrace risk-taking and experimentation to unlock transformative outcomes? Join us for this insightful session where I’ll share…

If you or someone you love is interested in the challenge of funding innovation in the social sector, join me next week on Thursday, Jan 23 as I share lessons learned from my past year of research: lu.ma/vkgy7qb4

17.01.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Right, why deny what we want

14.01.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@garychou.com is following 20 prominent accounts