Every day before I get out of bed, I cold message two new people that I admire. It never takes me more than 5 minutes. I've been doing this every morning for years, and it has gotten me: - 4 internships - my first full time PM job - my first investor in my business - a… Show more

I got my first job in tech as a result of doing a cold DM, and that changed my life. He also became one of my closest friends! Most of my new close IRL friends in the last 4 years have come from DMs

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation

From the GC. This is a smorgasbord synthesis of the advice I've given to people asking how to get into hard tech in last couple months. Everyone wants some certainty. You'll never get it. Decide what you want and bet your life on it. Bet everything. Just jump.

once you learn to shoot your shot just right you basically inhabit a completely different reality than 99.9% of people and it just looks like the world magically opens doors for you

Life is an endless string of problems that compound into meaning when solved and suffering when ignored.

the gay vs straight divide has never been captured so perfectly