![[chris-barber-image.png|80]] I'm Chris, living in San Diego, from New Zealand, Australia, Stanford, and Santa Monica. On [Twitter/X](https://x.com/chrisbarber) I tweet about startups, emotions & intuition, walkable places, and AGI. > ![[matt-mochary 1.png|40]] "Chris is one of my favorite humans on the planet. Smart, doer and fun. But of course my view is very biased. I owe my entire coaching career to him, as he was the very first person to ask me to coach!" – Matt Mochary, coached the CEOs at Coinbase, Notion, Reddit, and managing partners at Benchmark, Sequoia > ![[griffin-choe.png|40]] "Chris and the thinkers he recommends have had an enormous positive impact on my life" – Griffin Choe, leading AI security efforts at Figma > ![[josh-singer.png|40]] "I have met none like him. I regularly think "what would Chris Barber do"" – Josh Singer, Founder of Eigen > ![[rafael-cosman.png|40]] "I've known Chris Barber for around a decade now and he is a great guy and someone that we are honored to have as an angel investor." – Rafael Cosman, Founder of Protogon Research Topics: 1. Emotions, intuition, parenting 2. Startups 3. AGI 4. Walkability/community ### Emotions, Intuition, Parenting * **Emotional regulation tool for relationships:** Resonance is a way of speaking that helps others process their emotions and feel better. Mostly used by people to support their closest relationships. See: [[Learning Resonance]] for instructions and podcasts about it. * **A way to make decisions that align your subconscious mind and your conscious mind:** How to find your [peaceful preference](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1959684117647462542) * **Parenting resources:** I've written some guides on things I use a lot in parenting (both skills/methods and products), email / dm me to read. ### Startups * [[The friend iteration method for pitch decks and YC apps]] * [[The Chaos-to-Conscientiousness Phase Transitions]] by me and Charlie Songhurst * [List of helpful angel investors](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1947331403567513711) * Interviews * [Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo on hiring a founder in residence](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1907501090008076631) * [Kashyap Sriram on the Nvidia bear case](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1901645492758692101) * [Leo Polovets on raising a VC fund](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1906719676081869288) ### AI * **AGI Prep Interviews:** [[AGI Prep Interviews]] * [[Make LLMs supportive, not sycophantic]] * [List of AI researchers to follow on X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1948755113096740901) ### Walkability and community * [[A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful & walkable places]] * [[My Updated Guide to the Live Near Friends Movement]] ### Misc * Video: [Vibe coding guide for noobs](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1906421807474987224) * Video: [How to make a blog](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1948469489085153539) * [Now is a good time to build weird things](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1946958121278304408/) ### About I'm an entrepreneur/researcher. I co-founded an [executive coaching marketplace for startups](https://www.prismaticco.org) (let me know if you're a founder or exec of a seed-series D startup and need help finding an executive coach), and created [a place for engineers to discover good startups to join](https://www.breakoutlist.com) (let me know if you need help deciding between startup job offers). To all my friends who help with my various random projects - thank you! Email: [email protected] On [Twitter/X](https://x.com/chrisbarber) I tweet about startups, emotional regulation, walkable places, and AGI. If you liked something I wrote, I hope you might DM or email me to tell me which bit you liked!