Founders

You almost always want to be hitting the gas pedal, and no the break. 

As your company scales, you will inevitably build up individuals and teams that become breaks, not gas pedals. Get rid of the breaks.

Be the gas pedal.

Data @ Dune
Prev. Coinbase, Skew, and Goldman Sachs.

h/t to @jonathans for good convos around this this week

/new-york 🗽 • /untzuntz 😈 • /tastebuds 🍕 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

Building https://getmocha.com // creator of the https://blockchainsmokers.xyz

don't take my casts super seriously please (most of them at least)

Cursor gets 90% of the way there imo

The rest (early frontend prototyping) i do with v0 and srcbook (made by @pushix)

there is resistance inside in terms of being the gas pedal. mostly of it arises from self doubt

what has helped you deal with this over your life?

tech vs. absurd – you're not real – /addresso - /sauce – /cto – mostly a tombstoned account

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/11qayhp/how_much_do_you_sandbag_at_work_when_job_hunting/

sandbagging, quiet quitting, cruising. Call it whatever you want.