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When i search my heart I find that there’s a rather strange complex of anger and frustration... at the world... for its dogged insistence on changing
So what makes us human? Here’s the analogy I would give. If you think about all of our ancestors from hundreds or thousands of years ago—what would
Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.
When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde
Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are su
Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identi
"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Tw
Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right communi
ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental
the choice humanity faces in every age is between the idea of power and the power of ideas
“I would make sushi in my dreams. I would jump out of bed at night with ideas.” Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Ferrero, and Colin Chapman all did the s

















