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Has anyone else experienced Uber drivers speeding and/or driving aggressively here?

I used Uber a lot when I lived in SF and the rides were mostly fine. Maybe because it was city driving and there were less opportunities to speed? Maybe I am just getting old? My past handful of rides have been really stressful, to the point that I don’t want to use it again.

If you haven’t experienced this, are you upgrading your ride? Or favoriting certain drivers?

I know some Uber drivers are great and this is likely just bad luck, I’m just curious if anyone else has experienced this. I’d love to feel better about using it.

It never ends. At least, until they run out of other people's money.

Looking for recommendations for a stand-out Mexican restaurant for lunch in Novato.

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Amidst a rash of recent delays and issues, several larkspur-sf ferries were cancelled this morning, and looks like this afternoon is completely disrupted (they’re offering 55 minute bus rides as consolation). What is happening? What are the odds that tomorrow will be operational? And why can they not even use the alerts section of their website responsibly?

Chatted with them today. They’re willing to put sound on one TV. I have a DDS appointment at 4 PM so might be a hair late but wanted to let folks know.

Let’s Go Buffalo!!!

My mother-in-law will be 94 and lives in San Rafael. We want to take her to a nice place for lunch on Monday, Memorial Day, and go for a short walk. She's lived in Marin forever so nothing will be particularly new. She's not impressed with high-end dining, just good food and a nice place to walk. Not a huge group, only five of us. Open to suggestions. TIA

I'm looking for local bands that play in the area often and have cheap shows. I would also be interested in bluegrass

Anyone who has attended COM in the past few decades shouldn't be surprised to hear that trouble has finally surfaced for the ever popular biology professor. I have had many conversations about the suss behavior with different people over the years despite never personally taking a biology class there.

MJ Sushi is Sausalito has been closed due to staffing for about 2 months now.

I loved MJ sushi. Was it great? No. Did it hit the spot on a budget? yes.

We could get a full meal for 2 plus drinks for $75. I miss it.

Any other suggestions for a mid sushi spot that wont break the bank?

A few days back, I asked this sub whether a serious tech startup could be built and sustained in the North Bay instead of chasing the black hole of SF/Peninsula talent gravity and quality-of-life. The response was more enthusiastic than I expected, and a good number of people asked what I was actually working on.

Short answer: an early-stage Public Benefit Corporation working towards greater human resilience from natural disasters, cyber attacks, supply chain collapse, and more. We're building decision-grade analytics on cross-sector critical infrastructure risk and resilience at a national scale. Vague on purpose. Happy to go deeper privately.

This will be my one post on this; I won't be making a habit of recruiting here, but there was enough interest in seeing more companies in Marin that I thought it would be worth trying.

I'm looking for three senior hires to round out the founding leadership team. We are targeting a late summer raise, so this is not immediate - comp contingent on raise, equity commitments real now. Marin/North Bay preferred (leaning Larkspur for HQ), but will be hybrid by design. Goal is tier 1 SF comp ceilings, 100% family health/dental/vision premiums with no employee cost-share, meaningful founding-team equity, and eventually pensions rather than 401(k). Yes, we are building a different kind of company. Quite deliberately. Resilience starts and ends with people.

** CTO / VP Engineering 20+ years of technical architecture and engineering leadership, ideally with one or more CTO or senior VP runs at growth-stage companies. AWS architecture depth, security-first instincts from day one, and real experience with graph databases or complex provenance-rich data models. SCADA/OT familiarity is a serious plus given the domain. You'd own platform architecture across three integrated products, hire and run the engineering team, and sit on a Product Council that governs feature decisions alongside the analytic and mission leads. Not a coder. An architect and team builder.

** Chief Data Scientist 12-15 years applied ML in production, not research labs. Graph analytics and network science (cascading failure, propagation, centrality), probabilistic and Monte Carlo modeling, and real LLM integration experience (RAG, prompt engineering, model-augmented analytic workflows). Python fluent, Neo4j or equivalent strongly preferred. The title says "Chief" because I'm leaning towards a seasoned practitioner, not an executive. The job is doing the work and building a team to support. You'd own cascade and consequence modeling methodology, confidence scoring frameworks, and AI-assisted analytic tooling. If you've ever shipped a model that survived contact with operational reality in enormously complex environments, we should talk...

** VP Intelligence This is the unusual one. 20+ years in enterprise analytics and intelligence analysis. IC background (NSA, DIA, CIA, NGA, NRO, etc.) or military service equivalent is strongly preferred. You'd own analytic tradecraft standards, sourcing discipline, ontology integrity, confidence scoring, and the analyst workflows that keep our knowledge base honest. Not a data science role and not a product role. This is intelligence leadership applied to a dual-use mission, and you'd be the reason our platform's output is defensible to boards, regulators, and operators. Given the nature of this field, you will almost certainly be managing a widely distributed team across multiple geographic areas. You will supervise collections, analysis, data engineering, data science, and knowledge management, fusing it all into a coherent analytic capability. Also serves on the Product Council that governs feature decisions alongside the technical and mission leads.

If any of this sounds like you or someone you trust, DM me. Happy to share more about the company, the funding situation, and what we're actually building once we're off the public thread.