Some Beliefs Are Load-Bearing
In the activist-app-maker scene of the 2010s, I was the guy handed the unsavory job of “make enough money to keep everyone else’s ramen-eating hovel artist commune lifestyle afloat.”
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30 of 31I learned honor from an after-school cartoon
“Why is the Japanese prime minister doing moves from Dragon Ball Z on stage with Emmanuel Macron?”
Let him eat treats
I wrote like my friend Natalie Cargill for a day.
Weird Shapes Fit Together
The body remembers love and fire, always mixed, never separated.
Torture-bliss
The feeling that tells you whether you're actually learning anything.
The Best Meditation Advice Ever
if it works, who fucking cares if you're doing it wrong
Believe Your Own Bullshit
How to be wrong all the time and win anyway
Internal Fossil Fuels
Fracking my own anxiety for a decade and calling it ambition.
I Hate Admin but I Love My Wife
The right amount of focus is not all of it.
Bullshit Values
Your values are what you do when it gets expensive
Banger Sutras: Sermon Mode
Being right is not the same as being helpful.
The Worst Version of You Is Getting All the Practice
Your Tired Self is who you are when it matters.
How to Have Worse Taste
I paid a goddamn scammer $15k and he was right.
This wedding could have been an email
weddings used to be fucking metal
The Speech
“When we are born into eternity from the womb of time, there will be accountability for our actions.”
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Take the L, but do it well
The Want Behind the Want
How to get what you want by figuring out what they want
The Life and Grind of the Buddha
How One Prince 10x'd His Pipeline and Disrupted the Entire Suffering Vertical
You are Not a Care Salesman
Stop acting like one
Feedback Received in the Last 72 Hours
19 things people actually said to me
Uncommon Negotiation Advice Part 1: Intent Before Goals
Series introduction & how to not lose before you start
Questions That Make People Say Things They've Never Said Before
Most Conversation Is Socially Passable Misinformation
Grief is the Glue Holding a Worldview Together
And what's on the other side
Avoid Smooth Talking at Your Own Peril
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Signaling Competence
Just Send the Fucking Email
How to Become Unblockable
There are No Good Guys in the AGI fight
On fiduciary duty, the IPO party bus, and the race to own the future
Getting Kicked Out of Inkhaven
Exactly 500 words on the real consequences of not knowing your place
Non-Patronizing Advice for Gen Zs Who Want to Make More Money
Part 1: Playing the invisible game
A Profoundly Good Time
About 4 years ago a cofounder that I loved dearly left an organization I cared about intensely in a way that made me feel like I was dying.
How to Pay to Change the Law
Rules, Rubes and Ratchets