The best scene from the best episode of television I've ever watched. The dignity of work, why craft matters, intrinsic vs. external motivation, why every second counts, why you have so much time...in 5 minutes.

One of our best engineers is barely 20 years old and lives in Europe. He got accepted to YC AI Startup School and we figured we'd fly him to SF and hang for a week and plan stuff. He got rejected for a visa by the U.S. Embassy. Not only rejected, but humiliated, and tossed out

Do you love your life? It’s hard to bless other people’s lives if you don’t. Some thoughts on how to get there: - Realize life is not a project. It’s not a grind. It’s a gift. - Start each day with “what if today is good?” - Many can’t love life because they hate parts of

So unbelievably short-sided. We want the best people from all over the world to want to be here.

I haven't found the secret to happiness. But this is close: Disconnect your identity from your job. When you graft your identity too closely to your work, you start to associate your company's successes with your self worth. Its failures mean you're a failure. When I left

Not only is it highly unlikely that you’ll be remembered in 100 years… Many of the people who are remembered are remembered because they were horrible people.

I've been having a LOT of conversations this year with people asking for advice on how to reframe their identities following a professional change. It was something I went through a few years ago, and it was painful. In case that describes you, some suggestions that might help:

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for happiness, or success. And that was before AI made knowledge free. Wisdom is better. Character is better still.

Working in a Starbucks, waiting for a meeting. In the last 5 minutes literally 100 middle school kids have come in. It's the loudest room I've ever been in.

Favor: I have a friend looking to speak with folks who've done a search fund (or self-funded a search), or are planning to. No pitch, wants feedback on an idea. If you know someone worth talking to, DM me.

Weird question: Anyone know about a weighted vest that doesn’t look like a piece of workout gear?

Built my first RAG pipeline. Takes PDFs, plain text, ppts, word, excel. Problem: querying it is dumb. Doesn’t know which chunks matter and which are noise. Any recs on where to start to improve it?

A year ago I didn't use Autopilot on our Tesla much - was great 99% of the time, which isn't enough :). But now? It's incredibly good.