Last week in the gym I started bopping to background Dua Lipa while squatting. It occurred to me that I'd love to make more music. 100 strings performed0:00/136.3320411× At MIT I dabbled in poetry and composing. I'm proud of my binary string quartet
Watching the historic Tesla shareholder meeting that approved Elon's trillion-dollar pay package, it struck me how capitalism is fundamentally democratic. Public companies effectuate the freedom of each individual to truly vote with their dollar. Buy or sell a share of ownership, buy a product or the competitor&
I have asked relatively few friends to join any of my old podcasts. Most people are hesitant to upload themselves talking candidly at length. It's not a natural thing to do. Normal people don't practice playing themselves on camera. Acting usually comes with a script, and
I've appreciated Jim Collins for years. Good to Great happened to be one of the first business books I read. Then after I got into podcasts around 2018-2019, I listened to a fascinating conversation between him and Tim Ferriss in which they discussed sleep and various analyses
Along with becoming a youtuber this week, I'm making my first "investor" official. We both view his contribution as philanthropy, but it's neither truly an investment nor a tax-deductible donation. He's simply paying my LLC revenue. We didn't feel
When I worked at a charter school, I remember reading the common core standards and being very confused by them. They didn't seem meaningful, and certainly did not address the key underlying question: what is school for? For example, there was some random bullet about social studies and
I previously mentioned "creative blockages" but didn't elaborate. The main gist is shifting to Youtube as my primary output. This is a massive work in progress. I'm inexperienced and currently very bad at producing video content. I'm not fully comfortable on camera
I exercise but rarely exceed a month of consistency. I've never weighed myself regularly or set numeric targets. I feel healthy-ish overall, and I notice when I'm veering off course. Last year, I tried a sleep and a glucose monitor but didn't find
A founder friend mentioned in an offhand comment how he enjoys "having a tussle, just me and the market." He was making a point about being profitable and not needing investors anymore. Of course there's still dozens if not hundreds of employees involved, and many other
October 2025 was my first full month of daily blogging since March 2019. I find doing almost anything for multiple days in a row—besides eating, sleeping, and brushing my teeth—to be a real challenge! I don't exactly remember what compelled me to start writing, but it
As a kid, I would devour books. Each new Eragon or Harry Potter was consumed within 24 hours. Countless others as well, mostly fantasy: Charlie Bone, Artemis Fowl, Skulduggery Pleasant, Ranger's Apprentice, Ender and Shadow Saga. As an adult, I can barely get through 10 pages. I gave
In his recent chat with Marc Benioff, David Sacks talks about learning from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel at Paypal. "If you go back to the 90's, no one knew how to be an entrepreneur. There was no YC, there were no blogs." Now much more