Stanford 10-year reunion coming up made me realize anecdotally that there ended up being a lot less founders in my class than expected. The Social Network came out in 2010 so that certainly distorted any priors for anyone back then.

Success is across the chasm of linkedin cringe

I learned that people often: 1) are generous in what they count as “work” 2) tend to generalize based of a very small sample set of work conducted The reason someone like Elon is so successful is because the true number of people that work like this is incredibly small

Labor day -- shoutout to all the AI agents working today despite the holiday

Nothing like a spike in Linkedin profile views to signal the end of summer

Not to channel my inner Paul Graham but I'm sure that, if the majority of knowledge workers changed their schedule units of time from 1-hour intervals to half-day intervals, then that alone would usher in a productivity boom

Turns out being an annoying “Why?” kid is quite handy for enterprise sales

Insane how much of this is literally admins manually reviewing scanned doctor notes and searching their internal policy library to discretionarily decide how to treat a case

Optimism requires resilience. Pessimism requires nothing.

AI consolidates just like Fintech democratized

It’s purely for media clicks. Quick story: my second to last business was backed by PT and Business Insider ran an article on it. Apparently BI (and other large news outlets) has an internal points system of which names generate the most clicks and PT is right at the top. Because

Thank god the NYT clarified they’re just democratic socialists and not actual socialists

Compliance is a GPT-5 and higher opportunity. Need to synthesize disparate, interdisciplinary fragments of external + internal context, then generate first-order logic from it while staying within well-defined governance parameters. Simply wasn’t possible in a prior GPT epoch.

And at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs you'll find the task of making long sentences shorter

Nothing builds resilience like finishing Ulysses, The Power Broker, and Crime & Punishment

The fact that people keep posting The Great Short meme is meta-proof the AI bubble is far from over

“Federer also only won 54% of all points he ever played” I quietly tell myself as I edit the chatgpt prompt for the 37th time because the output just doesn’t quite capture the nuance I had in mind

Distribution >>>

Larry is goat Softwar is gospel

The convenient thing about NYC is people ask you what you do and when you say tech they just leave it at that. No further interrogation. Immediately get put in a certain bucket and move on with the conversation