gathering in person is a profoundly inefficient affair but it is a profoundly human affair. we won't be able to measure what it means to be here. we traded off the efficiency of our screens for humanity. we came for a vibe.

Take NPS. A management consultant at Bain invented NPS as a quantifiable metric to measure human loyalty to a product. A natural inclination reduced to an acronym in service to efficiency.

Example of a vibe entrepreneur: Whitney Wolfe Herd

Build a team that wills your vibe into your product.

many of us traded in a good life for an efficient life. we must acknowledge the pendulum has swung too far towards efficiency.

These large companies do not have vibes - Google improves lives, but the efficiency of search has made us forget the ancient joy of wandering through a library. not knowing what hidden knowledge we would discover hidden deep within the stats. AWS can be thought of as the most efficient way to start a website, but there is a templatized copy/paste... See more

Airbnb is a vibe company, Notion is an efficiency company.

Traveling online is hyper-efficient. We can travel from Zoom to Robinhood in microseconds. The algorithms get better at knowing where to take us.

efficiency is wildly profitable, but when it is treated as a God instead of as a means to the end of aliveness, it undercuts what makes us human -- our vibes. and when your humanity becomes synonymous with efficiency, you risk losing yourselves entirely.