Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to

I'm skeptical when people tell me they're very determined to make their startup succeed, but they can't find a technical cofounder. If you're determined, you can learn to program.

It's been an incredible year working again with my close friend Adam Saint to launch our 2nd startup, Teal. Today we're announcing our $8M seed round led by Katie Reiner at Torch Capital, with participation from General Advance, Basis Set and Dash Fund. With a first set of incredible

The “finding a therapist” process is broken. And stuck in the 90s. In 2018, my wife quit therapy before it even started. Instead of help, she got a sales pitch from a clinic intake coordinator. After weeks of building the courage to reach out, she felt empty, misunderstood, and

the greatest regret i have is underestimating the value of long term compounding. capital, friendships, projects, places, all get better with decades long investment. its impossible to understand until you see it. it is entirely what life is about. a few things for a long time

Today I'm excited to announce that Teal has been acquired by Mercury! We're very excited to make banking and accounting seamless for accountants and entrepreneurs.

i think we can do away with “seed, series a, b etc.” either a round is a “vibe” round or an “excel” round

A year ago I was sitting in a coffee shop with Alex Steele, chatting about startup ideas when he asked me, “how do you recommend I find a technical co-founder?” I told him to just learn to code and build the first version himself. It’s standard advice I give aspiring

once you learn how the sausage is made in your industry, some of the glamour falls away once you've worked in three or five industries, you realize it's all sausage, humans have never produced anything that wasn't sausage, and if you think you see non-sausage— nope, sausage

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