🇨🇳 An engineering student in China made a prototype of a sword that levitates towards you and flies around on command.

we spend our whole adult life trying to fix our relationship to food (established when we were kids) and then we give our kids the same foods and food habits that fucked us up.... why?

Good line from the book Trust: "They say the education of a child begins several generations before it is born."

simply being not in a rush automatically makes you a subtle nervous system regulator for everyone around you

YC is a machine that changes people’s lives.

"the poison was never forced, it was offered gently, until you forgot it was poison at all" mark twain

Today is the deadline for the YC fall batch. It takes 30 minutes to write an application and could change the next 10 years of your life.

I think tom is slightly off the mark. Yc changes the rest of your life.

Raastapopoulos I guess you could do that, but it seems like it would be a wasted opportunity. Maybe you could do what I did; start two multi-billion dollar companies that more than 10 million customers use every day and make generational wealth. That might be a better use of your time.

Huge congratulations to Alaan on the $48M Series A. Since Pioneer Fund invested during YC, Alaan has grown dramatically to well over $10M in ARR across 1,500 customers. This is one of the largest Series A rounds ever in MENA, led by Peak XV Partners with participation from

the most unexpected part of me having a dog? the amount I have to negotiate with her lol. like hey you are a dog, will you give me a hug if i give you 2 treats? how about you dont bark so loudly in the middle of my meetings? 5 treats. can you go potty now because i dont want

Just had the most beautiful experience of my life. I got upgraded on my flight to NYC this morning and everyone in 1st class had their laptops out, working. Except one. My seat mate. I was hungover, tired from writing Husk 2 all night, and now I had to sit next to this lazy

Nathan 🔎 I do in many different ways. I just don't talk about it much.

As the founding director of the Thiel Fellowship, it's incredible to see that our program, spearheading massive cultural change about what it takes to succeeded, has gone from being scoffed at by the masses to honored as one of the best accelerators in the world.

who can help design a podcast studio in sf?

Founders: I don’t care how urgent your startup problems are or how busy you are. Go to the doctor for an annual check up. If you can find an hour to go do happy hour with your team, you can find an hour to see a PCP. Please, take care of your health.