SoMa isn’t a popular neighborhood for good reason: best case it’s office buildings & Mixt, and worst case its an unsettling drug market but Portside Apartments remain one of my favorite buildings in the city

even if regulators are slow at least economics will increase adoption for safer cars! iirc car accidents are still mostly likely cause of death for an otherwise healthy person <40

your goal as a man with a business job in 2026 is to do everything in your power to avoid covering yourself head to toe in blue and grey plastic suits may be gone but style doesn’t have to be!

If you want to raise like $1-10m, here’s why growth equity would make sense: 1) secondary vs primary proceeds 2) underwriting 3-5x instead of 1% shot at 1000x gives you a different/better partner can also typically avoid crazy liq pref if you know what to look for

No Other Choice was excellent and a massive Oscar snub If you’re looking for another great and underrated Korean film check out: The Housemaid from 1960 (not to be confused with Park’s The Handmaiden) realllly cool symbolism and storytelling, especially for 1960!

any weekend plans? me and the boys:

another beautiful day on the hill

6am flights suck except for the sunrise

Bobby is legit and this is cool

i've expanded into the possibility of mid-century modern computers:

related: The Age of Innocence is also a happy ending by not entering the apt at the end, DDLs character is acknowledging that the fantasy of the life he could’ve had with Pfeiffer is better kept that way, and that the more meaningful experience is the reality he actually lived

Stories like this just remind me of how so few people are *really* trying out there Dozens of resumes from top 3 business schools and there’s just a single employer who is doing manual outreach back to the candidates? Others just asleep at the wheel

packing up some books for a move, pretty fun to have a few hard copies that were written by people I know