Listen, you don't have to be embarrassed, we've all thought about leaving it all behind and becoming product managers at some point. Trust me, they're not happier.

Increasingly enamored of Heidegger's view of personal transformation as introduced to me by Guy BOOK IS LIVE! || CHECK BIO, that to view yourself as something "to be fixed" leads to an inherently broken "fixing" since the tool that you use to fix is also "broken". Correction comes through action!

Tried something bold today and shared a lot with my family. Let them into my life in a way I hadn't before...my struggles with depression and happiness generally. It went way better than I could have hoped.

I wrote a user manual on how to work with me! I'm kinda proud of it so I'm putting it out there drive.google.com/file/d/1pqD1_t…

Send me your burned out, entrepreneurial engineers, yearning to work only part time as long as they enjoy it :)

You haven't "run a business" until someone owes you $100k+ that they'll never pay you. Yes, I ran a business this year.

I learned not to brag (at Stanford). One of the core values I learned (at Stanford) and internalized was egalitarianism (especially among Stanford graduates). I want to create a flat hierarchy in my startup I'm creating with 5 of my closest Stanford CS friends.

Forget trying to live on Mars...70% of the planet we live on is inaccessible to us. Water is the real enemy. Which billionaire will suggest an Atlantropa-size ambitious plan for geo-engineering. Create a new continent in the Pacific. Reduce sea level by like 20m, reclaiming land

Do you ever feel guilty for containing multitudes like you're making everyone's life harder because you have so many disparate needs and opinions?

The people I envy most are loud, unashamed about their wants, rejoice when they receive rewards and are comfortable with not having. I'm quiet about my wants, even with myself, don't celebrate victory, and become despondent when I don't get my unstated wishes fulfilled.

Socializing at SF parties is so easy, you just yell "Alex!" and some guy turns around and you pretend like you know him from a NodeJS meetup.

Can't wait for ten years from now when we all have race warred to our heart's content and we can get back to focusing on what matters: getting people to click on ads.

We used to copy designs from Stripe. Now we copy designs from Linear.

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