"Yours to Discover" by internetVin My little talk at Toronto Tech Week 2025. This was a new format and setting for me, I was pretty nervous about it, but I thought I would just try it out and see what I would learn. Thank you for everything so far.

What happened at the end of the Blue Jays–Dodgers game was NOT a lodged ball. A lodged ball has to be physically trapped and not retrievable through normal play. THE DUDE JUST FUCKING PICKED IT UP AND THREW IT IN FIELD SO THE PLAY SHOULD HAVE CONTINUED

It's a terrible track, man. It just wasn't good at all. Finally, man, someone recognizing this.

this kind of reaction happens every time a Toronto team goes deep into the playoffs people get shook at the fan base, the energy, the culture I've seen this same pattern so many times now Toronto is slept on in so many ways, and every time it hits the world stage, people see what everyone here already knows.

because discord sucks

An anime based in Toronto would be crazy.

Toronto is the perfect city

I went on a walk with one of my friends who is this entrepreneur that's incredible at creating momentum. And I asked him how he does it. What does he do when things feel stale? When things feel like they're not moving fast enough? And he said, "Increase the rate at which you engage with the external world." I think about this a lot. Every time I have followed this advice, it has worked.

my bad as a service

Can’t take the Toronto out of San Francisco man.

A GRAND SLAM IN TORONTO. THAT'S THE GAME MAN. TORONTO IS THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD. THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.

Meta is acquiring Brampton. Details will be revealed soon, but it includes a $100M signing bonus for me, and $50M for Tommy. Will share more soon, but been a crazy ride man. Thank you for everything so far.

DEVELOPING: The dude running around Toronto in a minion suit has taken off his suit to quickly cover distance, and look what this mans is wearing under his fucking minion suit man, I can’t handle this shit.

This has been the craziest fucking experience of my life. Also, I don't know why I'm allowed to share this, but I can. Jony Ive will be joining our team as well. Jony Ive is really going to work on Brampton. Wow.

Toronto is the perfect city

It's crazy how young this dude was, man. It's insane. Just that kind of drive at that age. It's crazy. People talking about David Goggins and shit. Dude was running on one leg while dying.

I can’t believe we, some kind of intelligent mammals on earth, can look out and see this thing happening. It’s so absurd.

I’m not about to die at Toronto Pearson International Airport, fuck that. I ain’t dying in Malton man. No fucking way.

It’s so fucking crazy that we built a robot, shipped it to another planet, and it’s rolling around taking photos and sending them back to us

Did this pattern also occur in the film industry? For example, right now there's either huge blockbuster film directors that are working through complex technical processes and then there's the individual creator making videos on their own with new powerful consumer cameras, or an iPhone. It's really, really interesting to extrapolate out and imagine how the world is going to change because of this. If this is actually where things are going. It's cool.

Toronto is becoming the best place in the world to create a technology company.

Toronto is the perfect city

WIP: First Person Shooter in Toronto

Look at these two images. They are both Tim Hortons Farmer's Wraps, but one of them has butter chicken. The Tim Hortons Butter Chicken Farmer's Wrap is being released on October 21st, 2025. I don't think people understand what is about to happen.

Oh my god, you're prompting like this? This is fucking insane man. lmfao

It's fucking insane

Dude tweeted a min ago how the fuck did yall already make this image and post?

Y'all are stupid as fuck for not eating here.

This is really nice. Like how the mattress kind of just sits in the frame. It's well done. I guess you had done woodworking and stuff before this, right?

BREAKING: A minion is running around Toronto right now, still actively trying to determine why, traffic has been blocked in several instances, I am the first one on the scene as usual, surprised no one else is reporting on this! Makes no fucking sense.

No way this shit is real, man. There's no way. The throw. The way he just throw it to the side lmfao. No fucking way, man. No one is that bad at throwing a sandal at a drone.

everyone in toronto wants to create a late night coffee shop, but it already exists, and it's great, please stop wasting my fucking time <3 Happy Coffee & Wine 1304 King Street West

yo if you live in Toronto and make stuff, we should support each other man, why not? Let’s just do it, ride or die for each other.

You can't even make this up if you tried. His papers are flying away as he's walking out to resign. It's ironic. It's cinematic. It doesn't make any sense man.

if this is real, it's insane, it's crazy how fast things can escalate at the border, can def be scary

It might be an odd thing to compare it to, but there's another angle to look at this too: Software is now content. I actually saw the same thing with video when the Canon 5D Mark II came out. When that camera dropped, so many more people had access to making high-quality videos, and it really changed what was possible, it was a lot cheaper to make a beautiful video. This also meant that the kinds of videos and the total genres of videos rapidly expanded. You had this new format, the vlog, which got progressively higher in production value as the cameras got better and also cheaper in price. Casey Neistat really pushed the culture with his daily vlog, and the level of narrative and production quality he could bring to it each day. You had these new high quality user product reviews, you had streamers, an expansion of documentary short film, it changed culture, it changed the aesthetics of many things, including comedy, it changed how we parse the signal from noise in information. And I think in the same way, this is going to happen with software - as the cost of making software goes down, we're going to see individuals experimenting with very very new kinds of apps. We're going to see new genres of software that would have never made sense in the past, we're going to see new aesthetics. We're going to see new kinds of games because the cost of trying this stuff now is so much lower for the individual. We will see individuals take on far more complex projects and games than ever before. A single creator might create an ecosystem of interrelated apps. So we might see software move in a direction where it's like a creator on YouTube making a video every day, but now we might have creators making and releasing new software projects every day. Still running my own experiments, and flushing this out, but something about this zone of ideas is interesting.

Thought we already carried one in our pockets.

Toronto is the perfect city

To be clear, like straight up what’s happening is, this dude has raised $10,000 for the Parkdale Community Food Bank, and will now run a complete marathon without having trained for it or run that distance before, and he will do it in a fucking full minion suit, and he’s asked me to wake up at 4am follow along in my car.

I wonder how much of this is the root cause of current issues in Western society? Everyone I talk to seems charged in some way or another. More than I can ever remember at any point in my life. Everyone brings their timeline into every conversation they have with you. Some people are less affected by it than others. But I can often just tell by talking to someone for a bit how much whatever timeline they are consuming is gripping their mind. It's interesting.

Dude ran on the field at the Toronto Blue Jays game with an American flag. What a waste of time. Not a single good restaurant in that country

I record convos w ppl I meet using iPhone to get a transcription I can send to ChatGPT to deepen understanding and get new ideas but I find iPhone kind of sucks for this, kills my battery, accidentally turn off recordings, so got a dedicated recorder for this: Sony UX570

Went to Tobi’s house for the first time and didn’t know what to buy a billionaire, but I didn’t want to show up empty handed you know? so i just stuck to what I know and bought him a Zojirushi rice cooker from Pacific Mall in Markham.

Introducing: toronto dot page A simple directory that makes it easier to discover like-minded people and events in Toronto. Its functionality will expand over time, if you want to be added to the directory, or if you have any ideas, lmk. designed and developed by @_kelindi

Brampton is the perfect city

Front Page of The Toronto Star

Tommy begins his Minion Marathon.

WIP: Pattrns A little AI based notes app I'm working on for myself. You collect thoughts, notes, and patterns with your voice and then an LLM prompts you with deeper questions to explore them further. You can organize your notes into topics, and export all of your notes, or only on a specific topic to discuss with an LLM and surface patterns across everything you're logging. TestFlight link in reply.

Getting paid $30 to tweet is fucking awesome

It's actually insane how much better Montreal is than Toronto

I don't mind the design of this. It's interesting and unique. I think it's cool the designer pushed for new proportions. I like how low the ride height is relative to how tall the vehicle gets. It seems really functional and practical.

Introducing: Toronto Ecosystem Fund (1) Dramatically accelerate current momentum by writing checks to students, individuals, and small teams who can have meaningful, and immediate impact on our ecosystem. (2) See, and document what happens, then share with everyone in our ecosystem. (3) No returns. The focus is on running an experiment to more deeply understand effects of capital allocation, and to accelerate the growth of our ecosystem. (4) $500k - $1m to start. (5) All capital deployed within 6 months for tight feedback loops. Let me know if you can help me do this.

I don't want to be American. I just want to be paid in USD.

Toronto: our tech and creative community is unnecessarily isolated Something to help Monthly event of curated demos with ground rules (time limits, etc), participants vote on demos, most votes gets $ (1k-10k) to continue work, drinks after, event is Roncesvalles Lmk if u want

When I left Shopify, the lead of the Toronto office said something that really fucked me up. He said, "What we'll miss most is how much you cared."

Hey @sama, I’m in SF this week, let’s link up. I’m the founder of Brampton, one of the most exciting AI models in the world, I think we can help OpenAI a lot amigo, like a lot, imagine all of the talent from Brampton working on your technology, just imagine it man.

making progress, within 3 weeks I’ll be able to recite any passage on demand with just page number as a prompt.

If you're from Toronto, and you have a good idea, I'll give you $1M right now.

My little intro during a16z at New Stadium in Toronto. Thank you for everything so far.

Dude was the janitor at that LA Fitness in Mississauga, hurontario and eglington, and was happy that his gym membership was included.

Minion Mans in Toronto

This is so fucking inspiring

Some people on this website are funny as fuck. It's like, how do people think of shit like this?

The food in Toronto is far better than NYC. At the highest levels NYC is better, but for day to day eating, the sheer number of endless bangers in Toronto and the surrounding area are far beyond NYC Ask any chef that’s spent time in both places and they will tell you the same

Toronto is the perfect city

learned a lot from @yacineMTB last night, very inspiring just watching him use his computer, still processing, very unique person.

YOU HAVE TO BECOME THE PLAZA. YOU HAVE TO JUMP INTO THE ABYSS AND NOT LOOK BACK. EVERY DETAIL MATTERS. COVER YOUR ANGLES. TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY. GIVE IT YOUR ALL. KEEP GOING. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.

This kind of stuff is so absurd to me. In day to day life it's hard to fully appreciate that we are all living on this floating sphere that is so old, so much older than us, so many beings have been here for us, and this sphere is spinning through space at incomprehensible speed

So many of the best engineers in San Francisco are Canadian, if you talk to the next gen, I feel like a lot of them don't even want to be there, they'd be down to build at home, but they can't, cause it doesn't make any sense, the system doesn't support cutting edge engineering, isn't that crazy? I'm over there talking to these engineers about this crazy shit they are doing, and then we are talking about restaurants in mississauga and shit we are producing great engineers, but it doesn't make any sense for them to build here, it's sad man we need better scaffolding man and not with like these lame undefined low standards, with high standards, real scaffolding, the best in the world on every dimension

That first photo where it’s looking back at its own tracks hits hard

Google vs. Brampton

So many cities in Canada are fucking iconic, man. It's insane. It's absolutely insane. Do you understand how beautiful Koreatown in Toronto is at night? If you drive a few hours, you'll end up in another city with incredible food and people speaking French. There are cities on the coast with the most absurd visuals you can imagine. It's an iconic, iconic place.

The Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series yesterday. But because the Los Angeles Dodgers suck, we can win it again.

City News in Toronto

you can't build a thriving ecosystem of new technology in Toronto on top of a foundation where everyone struggles to afford a place to live.

A Prototype for Solving Brain Drain in Toronto

Holy fuck, man. Just the range of tools that are going to be coming. There's just going to be so many different kinds of tools for every single purpose. So many different angles approaching the same problem. It's going to be insane.

It's the best school. The co-op thing when they first dropped it was very controversial. I believe it was created after World War II. It still seems like many other schools don't adopt this format, and I don't know why. It clearly works well. And it's clearly valuable to the students.

The Toronto Blue Jays were robbed. This is just disgusting behavior from the MLB.

This is going to be a very very special winter in Toronto, man. You can sense it. What a beautiful day. If you’re in Toronto today, before you sip on that green curry, close your eyes and think about how great it is to be alive. Before you walk outside, don’t forget your camera and your headphones, the lighting, the colours, they’ve all switched up, isn’t it beautiful? don’t forget to throw on The Smile by David Axelrod and all that shit. Wish you the best.

Prob not cause it’s v personal, but seeing it is inspiring to me

Some context.. After leaving Shopify, I was frustrated, curious, and worried about a few different things, mainly, why was it easier for me to execute well on projects when I was commissioned by others, but with my own ideas, I struggled to see them through to the end. This lead to a series of experiments: - I made music for 365 consecutive days, totalling 21 hours of continuous music, across genres. - I wrote code for 365 consecutive days, exploring HTML, CSS, Python, JavaScript, and Swift, this experiment lead to the creation of the first version of @futurelandtv - I designed an interface for 500+ consecutive days in order to better understand design, and keep Futureland evolving. before all of this, I was making documentary films and other multifaceted videos in a small studio I started with friends. beyond that, I've been using a computer since I was a kid to learn, express myself, and understand the world, computers saved my life in many different ways, and they've always felt like a safe place for me to come back to.

WIP: de_toronto

NOOOOOOOO IM SUPPOSED TO FLY BACK TO TORONTO TOMORROW OH MY GOD I HAD LIKE THE MENTAL EXPECTATIONS OF HOW LONG I WOULD BE HERE I NEED TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO FUUUUUUUCK I IMAGINED MYSELG GOING TO JADE DIM SUM IN MISSISSAUGA OH MY FUCKING GOD NO.

yeah sure @tobi, help us establish a space in the west end of toronto that has the following affordances: - seamless support of programming for 30 - 200 people - access to advanced tools for rapid output - support for deep work, small team collaboration, or larger scale demos and lectures - support for a hackathon based environment every weekend - the space can be entirely open and reconfigured depending on its current functional purpose, or the space could be partitioned in advance to enable these affordances hope is by creating a space with these affordances, which don't currently exist, we might be able to create a positive cascading effect in the surrounding area, and within the city's technical and creative ecosystems.

A new home for futureland.tv, just in time for the new year. Futureland helps you master your creative process, learn new skills and develop healthy habits. <3

Toronto is the perfect city

The Toronto Blue Jays were robbed.

Issue with shit like this is, it's a system failure that can be interpreted as an Indian issue, if it escalates, I'm getting looks and shit at Tim Hortons, even though I did nothing, government failures compound, but I get hit with the blame, even though I was born in North York.

New Hacks will change Toronto forever. It takes the core elements of a successful hackathon and enhances the experience through new mechanics inspired by the NBA, including a Draft Night. All of Toronto's scene will gather in formal attire to watch talented leads from our community and beyond draft their hackathon teams live. And then we'll let it rip through 2 days of hacking. If you are interested in contributing as a sponsor, let me know, we want to take this to the next level.

All of the problems in the Canadian tech ecosystem are just supply and demand. The supply of talent here is high, but the demand for that talent is low, so the talent leaves, which we call brain drain. If you want to change this, you have to work on something that increases the demand for talent here. Start companies, get funding for research and interesting problems, pull a rabbit out of hat, I don't know man, but if you're not working on increasing demand, you're not working on change.

It's extremely useful as a sounding board. You can basically riff your unstructured ideas and it always responds with some level of structure, this continual process of going from unstructured to structured, the back-and-forth, is a really good way to increase your understanding of something.

This is the most tech bro shit I've ever seen in my life.

DEVELOPING: the dude running around Toronto as a minion is actually going to finish this shit, he’s never run a marathon before, this time doing it in a minion suit is his first time ever running this fucking distance, in a few moments he will have successfully raised $10,000 for the Parkdale Community Food Bank, and successfully ran a marathon as a minion.

Just landed in San Francisco, it’s the same thing every time man, I step off that plane, smell that California air, and instantly fall in love with it, and then two days later I go looking for a shawarma and it’s over.

I think Canada could out perform China in manufacturing.

We have completed most of this task through New Stadium in Toronto at 83 Walnut Avenue. If you have been to New Stadium, it might be interesting for you to read the quoted post. Everything starts out as a thought. New Stadium has been validating how many root causes can be solved simply by consistently providing a well run space that can support collaboration, early ideas, communities, and vision. This will become more obvious to everyone when we share new incubator mechanics we have been developing behind the scenes. The idea of just providing space is oddly simple when you think about the complex ways in which people describe the problems in the Canadian ecosystem. But it is working and will continue to work. We are already starting to see startups look for space and sign leases based on proximity to New Stadium. We are on the ground level in the heart of the problem set. You would not believe what we see day to day. You would not believe the range of conversations we have. Things are changing a lot in this ecosystem. This is core infrastructure. The next step is kind of a black swan event that needs to happen. We need to, some how, secure a building in Toronto over the long term that becomes the beginning of a technology campus. New can operate this building. Right now, New covers the costs of New Stadium, but we need a way to entirely remove the problem of "space" from anyone within the orbit of increasing the technical output in Canada. If you can help, I would love to chat.

good morning

We're getting love here that we've never gotten in Toronto. This is insane.

Why This Toronto Mans?