This explains all the miserable trolls on X: “The children who need love most will always ask for it in the most unlovable ways” –Russell Barkley

9-9-6 is performative bullshit linkedin slop work as much as you possibly can on what is most important rest so that you can have enough cognitive acuity to repeatably know what's most important

The absolute best advice for achieving a long term goal by Tolstoy.

nothing makes me want full autonomy more than calling an uber getting a smelly 2008 Prius

morning coffee: functioning morning coffee in the sun: thriving

san francisco basically already has universal basic income. you just have to be a reasonably competent founder who can talk confidently to VCs.

hosting events is a force multiplier to growing your network

dating anywhere else: “i think ur cute, wanna go out” dating in sf: “wanna come to this partiful”

a talented engineer reached out to me on LinkedIn about working together on a project and then no-showed our intro call, took 4 days to respond/apologize, asked to reschedule, and then ghosted again why on earth would i consider working with this person 🤣

only in sf

I walk down Market Street late at night probably 5 nights a week. It's a fucking disaster. It's zombie town. It's a morass of human misery, suffering, and crime. San Francisco has been killing the homeless en masse with permissive empathy, making their lives comfortable on the

"Imagine reading a book with no way to turn the page back... How carefully would you read it? That's your life." You can't go back and change anything you do... A reminder to make your first reading count.

the best founders can see the future by simply extending the curve of what’s already compounding. they bet on things that are impossible now but feel inevitable later.

friendly reminder that you should ask for what you want in life

every startup founder wants to hire top engineers and designers, and is willing to pay top-of-market comp to get them. but there is simply not enough talent to fill this demand. and with the number of new startups also increasing, what does the future of hiring even look like?

there are very few downsides to starting a company when you are young you either win, or you learn

i spent my 20’s building 3 companies across B2B SaaS and consumer but now that i’m in my 30’s, something changed. i have zero desire to build another b2b saas company i am only interested in spending my time on problems that make a demonstrable impact on humanity

but you will hesitate to bring charges against fentanyl dealers and career criminals?

if Garmin hired a millennial CEO and revamped its product, it would be a >$200B company the hardware is top-tier, with a 3 week battery life and continuous heart rate tracking absolutely dominating over apple watch but the software is garbage. the assistant features never