If they don’t want to see you win, they aren’t on your team

Meet my son: Metropolis-Hastings. You can call him Metro.

They forget I’m a math major until I put 2 and 2 together 🥱

*Aloof but assertive. Afraid of loud noises. Popular loner. Never skips their fish oil. “Yeah I got that cat in me”

Huge market opportunity for cheap plain eats. People are starting to crave simple.

All fish start small.

RE the value of a college degree: many of my peers at Brown are sure that the Brown name will carry them to the career they desire. While it may get their foot in the door, success is not so certain.

How to get into an Ivy League

all those sayings they taught us as kids were wrong — actually good things happen to those who stop waiting and start acting like they have agency in their own life

your biggest achievement should be something nobody can take away from you, which means it shouldn’t be something someone had to give you in the first place

Sorry fans I've fallen off

Fans, I'm sorry for letting you down. I don't deserve you.

guy with a hammer (operations research toolkit) thinks everything is a nail (convex optimization problem)

It’s always been a mistake to value studying computer science because it gives you the ability to create software. It’s the way of thinking that is valuable.

Started "adding compute" (reading more) and I'm feeling smarter

Back to the basics

Just keep trying. Eventually it will work out.

start scared

"Whenever it's doing its business, it makes me nervous" - gf when using ChatGPT for the first time ever