Silicon Valley VC Eric Bahn 💛 says 80% of VCs are momentum investors. They follow deals instead of leading them. Not enough have real conviction. That's not something you hear a VC admit often.

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with

Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow. - Richard Feynman

“Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.” — James Clear

Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.

You can use AI to cut costs. You can also use AI to raise your ambition. Too many people focus on the first. More people should be thinking about the second.

Quiet progress is a lost art. No hype. No announcement. No applause. Just work in the dark. Learning to work with no validation. Showing up when nobody cares. Quiet progress creates loud results.

Real (durable) confidence can only be earned via either developed competence and/or the meta skill of being able to try something, get rejected, learn from it and keep trying until you get good.

Spent a few days in New York catching up with folks: 1.) Few have heard of Mythos 2.) While people have heard of Claude Code, few have tried Cowork or knows what a skill is 3.) Many F500 non tech companies here aren’t getting any value out of AI because of politics 4.) Too many

there are likely ~100 ppl alive today that deeply understand all of these together: product instinct, what makes good software, design, technical depth, a real model of ai, the psychology of a single user, the shape of culture, team building, the ability to motivate, & the

Chris Camillo reveals how people are making $500K/year being an "AI guy" for small businesses "There are millions of small businesses out there and almost none of them are willing to embrace AI right now, you just walk in and say give me one area where you're leaking money, I'll

Recently someone asked me if I were to do a software startup today, what would it be about? My immediate reaction was that I probably wouldn’t do a software startup at all. Instead, I’ll perhaps choose an idea with heavy operational buildup that cannot be replicated easily.

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

“The biggest startup ideas are terrifying. And not just because they'd be a lot of work. The biggest ideas seem to threaten your identity: you wonder if you'd have enough ambition to carry them through.” paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

The romanticization of being a startup founder is kind of insane to me: – You’re statistically unlikely to succeed – You’ll have no life and be totally consumed - Incredible lows – You’re locking yourself in for 10+ years This is insanely hard and NOT for everyone.

“What did you build this week?” is the new “what did you get done this week?”

Have you ever tried to find out if thought can be still?

"Please meet our new CEO" The new CEO:

“If you want to be successful, I would encourage you to grow a tolerance for failure.” — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang