"Our task is not to panic when the machine gets close..." fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegger…

working at a startup is the best personal development because it teaches critical thinking & decision making skills in a hyper accelerated environment

Underrated career hack for young people: Be easy to root for. Show up early. Do what you say you're going to do. Take things off others plates. Stay late. Work weekends. Have a great attitude. Don't gossip, whine, or complain. Be easy to work with and hard to compete against.

unconventional sign you could crush it at a startup outside of the typical competitive sports - high-elo/ladder-ranked player in video games.

Building at a startup is the fastest way to unlearn your corporate delusions. You learn big companies run on bloat & politics. Decisions are arbitrary, incentives misaligned, half the “experts” are just loud. After the illusion shatters, you see that most moats are just a bluff.

adding husband/father on your linkedin is the biggest antisignal

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Our culture needs courage, will, agency and audacity.

languageee isn’t just rlly a medium for communication, but it’s a space where emotion. identity. logic. computation. and nuances can all magically converge

being relentlessly yourself is the only moat

practical wisdom to ((hopefully)) build great things. Bird by bird, just take it bird by bird. side-quest.beehiiv.com/p/bird-by-bird

“Mom how did we get so rich?” “Your father played baseball in college and then stumbled into an Enterprise Account Executive role at a niche software company”

Some of our best hires were totally unqualified on paper. They always had the same qualities: entrepreneurial, high agency, smart, mission aligned, and they got shit done. If you’re hiring, especially in early stages, seek out & bet on these people. Don’t over-index on resumes.

almost said “love you bye” at the end of an interview

the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or walking into compounding capital and joy over decades this, necessarily, requires rotating quickly out of things that aren't it