Are you familiar with the Arrival Fallacy? The Arrival Fallacy, coined by Tal Ben-Shahar, is the false notion that achieving success will lead to long-lasting happiness. Many business owners and entrepreneurs fall prey to this, including myself. We often think, "When we sell

$100 customer: Can you come early? I have a little extra I need you to do as well. Can you stay longer? This didn't work out as well as I expected I need to talk about the bill. Can you call me please right away? $10,000 customer: Send invoice. Thx.

We need to make bootstrapping cool again.

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I know these pubs are struggling to generate revenue but this is getting out of hand.

We turned ourselves into machines to survive the industrial age. Now machines will turn us back into humans. The great restoration is coming.

Hyper-personalized learning is the future of education and AI is the only way to do it at scale 🤝 Nectir is in over 100 schools across the nation with peer-reviewed research that proves we teach & learn better with ai (gpa went up 20%, motivation to learn up 36%)

selling into higher ed = slow trust games your ICP has been burned by vendors before that means trust isn’t a warm intro trust is clarity, follow-through, and over-communication every week, every email, every call

most of my work is translation vendor-speak → impact features → outcomes speed → safety sell like they think, not how you talk

one thing i’ve learned over the years, especially in higher ed: be careful not to position yourself as 'just' a vendor become a new revenue stream, a retention lever, or help your POC solve a challenge--a true partner in their success (while making them look good) once they

new grads are in a tough spot. unemployment’s up. AI’s moving fast. entry-level roles are in flux, for a lot of reasons. but there’s real upside if you’ve got the skills. if I were in undergrad, I’d go all-in on AI: learning the tools, the language, and where the gaps are.

Be a Pro Early in my career, an older mentor told me, "Be a pro." I nodded like I understood, but I didn’t know what he meant. As time has gone on, I’ve learned more about what it means to be a pro. Being a pro is about recognizing that everything you do sends a signal about

I’ve been thinking a lot about a conversation I had with a university partner last week. They were candid...frustrated, even. They know change is needed. But the system makes it incredibly hard. The challenge isn’t just financial. It’s cultural, structural, and deeply personal.

I now understand why my dad used to wake up at 4AM and just sit at the kitchen table for an hour

VC is dying. If I were starting a company today, I wouldn’t raise any. Founders don’t need it anymore. With AI, it’s possible to go far with little outside capital. “$X raised” used to be the flex. Now it’s ARR and MRR. Two years ago, no one put these metrics in their bios —