I'm Chris, from New Zealand, Australia, Stanford, and San Diego. "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Mochary), coached the CEOs of Coinbase, Notion, Reddit, and the managing partners of Benchmark, Sequoia, etc. "Chris and the thinkers he recommends have had an enormous positive impact on my life" – Griffin Choe, leading AI security/safety efforts at Figma "I have met none like him. I regularly think “what would Chris Barber do”" – Josh Singer, runs a successful LLM integration firm I've created and co-created: * Top of mind * Currently in progress: Writing a guide on "Predicting AI Capabilities and Impacts For 2025-2029" (What's coming, and how to prepare/what to do now) * [[More info on the AI guide I'm working on]] * [[Condensed notes on emotional regulation and self-integration]] * Writings * 🤖 [Nvidia H100 GPU supply and demand](https://gpus.llm-utils.org/nvidia-h100-gpus-supply-and-demand/) * 👀 [How to make people feel seen](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YFJf37bOEYg8mWpRuC7dtaaZY9G5WyAHYLQE1T7YlvI/edit#heading=h.3ry9anwf4h89) * 🎓 [How to get into Stanford](https://stanfordguide.org/how-to-get-into-stanford-6c8ebf1b6921) * 📈 [Ambitious bootstrappers](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a21RCVfnLKdmKVpTBdbmpK2vNSTOAx1GzH5AHH9Ml7A/edit#heading=h.6zv9qgyrmqgf) * 💪 [Health cheatsheet](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g1qqDr9ko4jzs3NNSN-2NrdEHsDJeab6BJd4Y3vjxAU/edit#heading=h.cascoeoe4zt9) * 🫀 [Intuition guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z6xJG5_al7mDSY68-r3ky1GjCR4NvyosKHo_65q1CaU/edit) * Products * 🧑‍🏫 [Prismaticco](https://www.prismaticco.org) with my wife Nina to help seed & series A startup founders find exec coaches * 🚀 [Breakout List](https://www.breakoutlist.com) to help engineers find good startups * 💻 [OpenAI API status](https://openai-status.llm-utils.org) with Eliot * Videos * 🎶 [GPU parody song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpnXANXGUg) mentioned in the NY Times * 👶 [Helping toddlers emotionally regulate](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFSDhbXE/) tiktok videos I made * Here's a [loom video](https://www.loom.com/share/774227d5228e4890af7aa148cac9da11?sid=5b55c8e0-90bb-4e51-933c-9112ae57d026) for if you don't have tiktok and more here on [icloud sharing](https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B2A5n8hH4m4TwD) * Media * TV: Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reno 911, Modern Family * Directors: Guy Ritchie, Tarantino, Nolan, Wes Anderson * A few songs I've played a lot * [Into The Wild](https://open.spotify.com/track/6LDu8dV3VN8j6sTYVRRid8?si=05e0f6546a8a4258) * [Cumberland Gap](https://open.spotify.com/track/4rG7GtTipquzXDBHUcJQw1?si=cfc912a570584509) * [Sky Full of Stars](https://open.spotify.com/track/2VeLdiYiILcCOEV0izfzEW?si=ac0c41c2d4934f3f) * [High Places](https://open.spotify.com/track/6CqAesqVQvua7MqJdriubx?si=6999dc36fe5549d0) * [Aurora](https://open.spotify.com/track/4fV89YuGKa2P6nELfw7dMS?si=b59ab24cb0614542) Here's me! ![[IMG_3250.jpeg|100]] ![[IMG_1670.jpeg|100]] I live in San Diego with my wife and 2 kids. Reach out via Telegram: [@chrisb_tg](http://t.me/chrisb_tg)