Tara Lemméy

We invent standards all the time. Including time. This month, the world voted to let the clock drift an hour from the sun. The atomic clock didn't vote. People did. How to Invent Noon podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Robert Hall won the Nobel in economics. He thanked California taxpayers for his public schooling and the federal government for his MIT PhD. "I hope they will regard this as a satisfactory return on their investment." Paid in full. I ❤️ public education. stanforddaily.com/2026/10/13/s...

San Francisco. What a basketball city 💜 🏀💙💛

Sometimes invention is four minutes and whatever’s on you. A fire nobody can hold. A crew that has to leave. Somebody cutting up the one thing that would have kept them alive, to give it to something that can’t run. Twice, thirty-three years apart. New Invent podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Fire is a climate problem. A resilience problem. And a very expensive problem. There are inventors already solving flood, drought, and fire with one structure — wherever we let them. Right now, a few people are letting them. How to Stop Fire podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... #science #climate

It’s a good day when you get the email RESOLVED: Mountain Lion ❤️ San Francisco

The language of AI news obscures the actual solutions. If you’re working in solutions, add this to your reading.

A desk, a telephone, and until spring to put 4,000,000 people to work. No staff, no system, no plan. A social worker from Iowa figured out how. share.transistor.fm/s/18ca6730

The language of AI news obscures the actual solutions. If you’re working in solutions, add this to your reading.

I've watched plastic wash up in Lima and in San Francisco and out on the Great Barrier Reef, and every time I thought the same thing everybody thinks. That's permanent now. I was wrong. New season of Invent, out today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

I've watched plastic wash up in Lima and in San Francisco and out on the Great Barrier Reef, and every time I thought the same thing everybody thinks. That's permanent now. I was wrong. New season of Invent, out today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Jolene can save a life. It has the CPR count. Thanks for that and well, everything Dolly. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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#Update: Remember the humanoid robot that flew out of the Bay Area after meeting passengers? Today United Airlines and Delta Airlines banned humanoid robots on aircraft, and in checked luggage. Southwest had banned the ‘bots after this guy flew:

www.kanopy.com/video/15027053

Two pirates sail to an island, find no treasure, so one bans the letter O — first from speech, then from nearly every word. A 1957 fairy tale about taking words away and the four that win them back. One is freedom. You can’t invent what you can’t name. Happy 4th! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Some of the meanest things I’ve ever said, I said as a grape — in an improv class, where the part let me say what I couldn’t as myself. You can’t build what you can’t name. Humor is how new ideas survive. July 4 episode: pirates who ban a letter. Enter Laughing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

4 years in and the majority of insurers still aren’t reporting what regulators need. Invention requires good data. You can’t build what you can’t see.

Every government should own its own technology stack. Most don’t. It’s not that hard.

The enemy isn’t always what you think it is. Sometimes it’s a nerve agent. Sometimes it’s a peanut. Sometimes it’s the four minutes before help arrives. Same problem. Someone had to see that. Take a listen. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

We’re seeing a pullback of AI spend. It’s like when VCs underwrote car washes, food delivery services, and dry cleaning delivery. And then they didn’t. Sometimes you can’t get your clothes back.

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” — Feste, Twelfth Night Goodnight, Stephen. You were the witty fool we needed.

Highway 101 flooded Jan 3. Google Maps sent cars over the mountain — one-lane roads, blind curves, rain. Their phones knew exactly where they were. They just had no idea what was around them. I turned around because I knew where I was. New Invent podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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In the episode I said he’d handed off the Glide auction. Looks like he took it back. 🙂 Susie’s idea won’t quit. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Cities invent themselves. Nobody in charge. Jane Jacobs figured this out at 3am listening to her street. She called it the sidewalk ballet. The planning profession hated her book. She had no degree. It’s still in print. New episode of Invent. Go invent something podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

SF ❤️ engineering #sanfrancisco #technology

Nokia Bell Labs was trying to find where cables break. The cable carrying your internet had been sensing earthquakes and whales for decades. Nobody had read it. New episode of Invent. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

I learned to surf in Maui. I was not good at it. For a hundred years, twenty feet was the limit. Not a rule — physics. Human arms can’t match a wave that fast. 1992. A Zodiac. A rope. One said: wait. The ocean didn’t change. The limit did. New episode of Invent 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Science is awe. #nasa #artemisii

Way Mo Problems.

China built the solar factory. Then the lithium battery. The pattern is clear. Sodium is different. The materials are everywhere. The factories don’t have to be in one place either. That’s a structural advantage. We just have to use it. New episode of Invent. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

What’s a Swamp cooler? Oscar Palmer built one in Phoenix in 1908. The desert heat was the problem. The desert dryness was the solution. Same place. Same moment. New episode of Invent — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

What’s a Swamp cooler? Oscar Palmer built one in Phoenix in 1908. The desert heat was the problem. The desert dryness was the solution. Same place. Same moment. New episode of Invent — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Everyone knew that was impossible. He wrote it down anyway. Two years. No collaborator. No grant. Just the pattern. Marshall infected himself. He’d mapped the mechanism. He knew what he was testing. Two antibiotics. Two weeks. Cured. Invent. Apple Podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

And there was ahoy. Good that Bell lost that one to Edison.

You want to run what with it? It took me the better part of an hour and two ai systems to manually extract the unwanted Freddie Kruger like Microsoft auto updater from my MacBook. Just saying.

Go girls. Go Olympians. Wonderful story Britt.

Who’s driving the streets of San Francisco without a license ? Thx @brewster.kahle.org and the Wayback.

Super Bowl Sunday. Every mascot exists because in 1974, a guy in a chicken suit figured out what to do during timeouts. Ted Giannoulas made the downtime part of the show. 50 years later: every mascot does what he invented. New Invent: The Chicken Suit podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Some words had to be invented. On weeks like this you realize - balderdash - is one of them. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...

Go forth to make the world a better place for you can make a difference. The task is daunting – of course, but it is a necessary struggle. Desmond Tutu

Great read to get your health on the right track in 2026. #health