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I have now given up on mechanical keyboards, espresso machines, and inbox zero. I am not meant for the finer things in life.

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Don’t let the smooth ride convince you that you’re the driver.

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“If I had read as much as other men I should be as ignorant.”

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I don’t think this is good.

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Not everything should be a market. You don’t have to bet money on every belief you have.

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The desire to be publicly right instead of publicly good is a disease plaguing technologists.

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I might be more excited about genetic screening and space tech and brain-computer interfaces if the founders were religious and publicly discussed their values. Have the tough conversations in public & show that you’re grappling with them rather than brushing them to the side.

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I am very surprised that OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. haven’t invested heavily in a media arm. Even Perplexity — they’re doing one-off drops, but no persistent media brand.

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Building a media business is the single highest leverage thing you can do in 2025 only if: (1) You’re consistently getting better on a long time horizon, and (2) You’re positioned to serve an audience that you actually enjoy talking to and building alongside long-term

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I think ~everyone would benefit from reading and writing more. Not to memorize facts, but to gain perspective on how others think and frame their ideas and experiences. “Taste” discourse feels single-player, like we’re saying “if you’ve got the right eye, you’ll win.” In reality, you’ll only win if your message is heard by the right people in the way you intended. And that requires a level of perspective that you won’t gain by just figuring out what you like and don’t like. The medium is the message, and the message is what is heard.

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If the medium is the message, then the medium through which you work matters just as much as the message you hope to deliver. In your career, this means you need to figure out (1) the mission you hope to achieve, and (2) the vehicle through which you’ll achieve it. You can start on one without figuring out the other, but if you aren’t actively working to align both in the long-run, your impact will be limited.

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Back to the basics

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The problem with using LLMs a lot is that you start to notice all of the little quirks and cliches from everyone else’s LLM writing and you can no longer enjoy reading on the internet ever again

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People ask me why I think more new grads should start their own businesses, but pretty soon they won’t have a choice.

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The shortest path is the one you don't abandon

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“AI will be an accelerant for people with taste” isn’t the utopia you think it is

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@brenner.eth hit me in the DMs and then connected us via email. almost 4 years ago. wild.

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funny to see who is saying “solana is live on farcaster” and who is saying “farcaster is live on solana” https://x.com/farcaster_xyz/status/1925613335871164865?s=46&t=u8pItK-nu0TdtOG8jcLETA

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farcaster has found pmf when you start telling your friends you went viral on farcaster

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frankly, the *only* businesses that will survive in the long-run are (1) foundational infra businesses and (2) mission-driven businesses

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