I'm Chris, living in San Diego, from New Zealand, Australia, Stanford, and Santa Monica. "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 of Coinbase, Notion, Reddit, and the managing partners of Benchmark, Sequoia. "Chris and the thinkers he recommends have had an enormous positive impact on my life" – Griffin Choe, leading AI security efforts at Figma "I have met none like him. I regularly think “what would Chris Barber do”" – Josh Singer, runs a business that helps enterprises build LLM-powered products I've created and co-created: * Top of mind * In progress: AI Guide - 2026 predictions, 2035 predictions, how to prepare * [[More info on the AI guide I'm working on]] * In progress: Guide to resonance as a tool for processing stuck emotions like irritability and procrastination * Future * Emotionally regulated parenting guide * How to use intuition for less-regret and more peace in decisions * Message me on telegram [@chrisb_tg](http://t.me/chrisb_tg) to request access to draft copies of any of these. * 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) * Scratch notes * [[Condensed notes on emotional regulation and self-integration]] * 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) * Ways I like to help * Rafael Cosman from Protogon Research: "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. He is experienced, happy to help, and would be a value-add to any cap table he is a part of. He has particularly strong knowledge in getting to product market fit in B2B, although can contribute in many other areas as well. Would definitely recommend working with him if you have the chance!" * I like helping startup founders who are either working on products I find interesting or who I have a pre-existing relationship with * Brainstorming: forging product-market fit, recruiting strategy especially pre-suasion and branding and assessing founder-type first 25 employees (but not candidate intros), learning management and delegation basics, subconscious theory and what users want and respond to, emotional tools for CEOs, regret minimization for CEOs / decision making, growth marketing strategies aimed at tech early adopters (eg how to write things that hacker news likes, product-led growth ideas) * I've helped companies strategize hiring dozens of engineers, I've made 5+ things that've reached word of mouth growth, and I've personally gone zero to one selling large $ amount things to b2b customers. * Async (voice messages or texts or emails) or unscheduled adhoc calls are my favorite * 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) * [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) Here's a parody song and video I produced: