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7 months

Reading stack for next couple months. @SolBrah you’re in good company.

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You can learn anything you want in 30 days. Over the past month, I've taught myself Lisp, Rust, and JavaScript. The entirety of my formal programming education was one entry level CS class. Here's how to learn anything with a 3 step feedback loop:

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7 months

Turned 23 today. Ran 26.2 miles to celebrate. About six years ago, doc told me I wouldn’t run again. Cheers to that.

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My co founder @caddycapital and I are on a mission to make our start up, BirdDog, hit $100K ARR by the end of the year. Currently, BirdDog has no product and $0 in ARR. Here's the roadmap:

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2 months

Trying to ship and the coworking space in paris forced laptops down at 6pm. Beautiful space, but this is why the us wins.

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2 months

After a couple weeks of hacking, I'm proud to say that BirdDog has an MVP to show the world. I've been vague about what BirdDog is (we're still figuring out ourselves), but a great way to describe it is command F over your prospect list.

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2 months

When you debug your code, you're really debugging yourself. As you start to observe patterns in your errors, and you start fixing the sources of those patterns, you're making yourself a better programmer.

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5 months

Help, @facebook on my browser keeps rendering in Devanagari script and I don't know why

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2 months

The proud legacy I am leaving at C House… it will forever be the place where I wrote my first macro

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1 year

I made a not at all spontaneous decision to start a weekly newsletter about what I'm up to. Shoot it a subscribe if you find the first one interesting:

The Beginning

Let's stay in touch

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1 month

It seems that success and failure both come from small, repeated actions over time. Watching "one more" four minute youtube video is surprisingly close to sending "one more" cold email or improvement on the code base. Starting is harder than continuing.

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You're not a hacker bc of what you can achieve with your computer, you're a hacker bc of all of the steps you don't have to take to achieve those things. Given enough time, anyone can do anything. A hacker can do it with speed & accuracy.

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10 months

Excited to help build the future. @CityofPraxis

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If I didn't schedule meetings with users & promise them I'd have things to show them I would probably just keep coding in circles indefinitely. Work is necessary but not sufficient; you need feedback, too.

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2 months

You don’t win by fighting, you win by training. If I beat someone whose been grappling for 3 months, I didn’t beat them when we went at it. I beat them 2.5 years ago when I started.

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7 months

Thrilled to be building on @praxisnation . If you are, too, dm me for priority access to Ultima Mercury, the last sales enablement tool anyone will ever need.

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2 months

22 ish hours into the fast and locked tf in @casecatching @akshin_makkar

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1 month

I think this is a turning point in our relationship. I'm also starting to view it as feminine. I talk to her more than I talk to anyone else...

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Five years from now, a vc investing in a software company will be similar to a vc investing in a media company today.

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2 months

Just made my first macro in clojure—turned three routes and 29 lines of code into 14 lines. Let the magic commence.

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8 months

Ultima just secured it’s first contract since we pivoted into sales in late November. Pay on performance, nothing huge, but an awesome step in the right direction. Time to perform.

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3 months

Required reading—SICP is the new red book, one for every home

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1 month

The perfect conditions to do the hard thing do not exist. The more you wait for them, the less you will get done.

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2 months

The greek guy who gave me a haircut yesterday paused before I got out of the chair, looked me in the eye, and said, “Be safe tonight.” That’s the kind of energy you should have towards your customer after selling a saas product.

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2 months

I love how often I find myself thinking “this is the best code I’ve ever written.” It’s a constant reminder that there is still so so so much further to go. Each iteration will be so much better than the last.

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2 months

You're not paranoid, you're just insecure. Just assume they've already said all the things you're afraid they might say. If the things are true, figure out why they bother you. If the things are lies, disprove them with your future actions... or, get over it.

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22 days

You're not afraid of the blatant lies they're saying about you. You're afraid of the lies they're saying that contain the truth. Meaning, really, you're afraid of the truth.

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7 months

There’s nothing more electric than saying “We’re expensive” in a sales call and having the prospect nod and say, “That makes sense!”

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7 months

If you need a steak and a set of golf clubs to push your product, you’re selling a commodity.

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2 months

all roads lead to rag

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27 days

I’m most arrogant when I’m most insecure. Get less insecure.

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3 months

Over the past 1.5 months, I've been staying at the Harvard Hacker Houses, ran by @edchucation The experience involved Category Theory, hacking, piano, jiu jitsu, and adopting birds. Check out my love letter to C House:

On Hacker Houses

Visit the only place in the world where a bird would be nursed back to health over conversations of category theory.

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2 months

1) Consume Information Take in as much information about the thing you're learning as you can. The important part here is that you integrate it with your worldview.

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2 months

If you program the right way, then force quitting applications just reallocates memory to the problem.

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28 days

I feel like deadlifting and running actually clears my sinuses

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2 months

I can promise you that I don’t use emacs regularly, but I can’t promise you that it’s not installed

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5 months

Never underestimate what an autist can achieve with a handful of robust heuristics.

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1 month

The less I code like I know what the "perfect" solution is, the better my code ends up being. My assumptions about "perfection" are usually wrong; I think the key is making something that works and then aggressively improving it as the world tells you where it's bad.

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7 months

I went on the craziest bike ride of all time with @bobby_housel yesterday. Dozens of energy gels, six flat tires, four angry dogs, a funeral procession, an unsafe town at sundown, and a police station. Check it out:

On Biking

Or how we set the record for most flat tires in one day

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2 months

$100K ARR by 12/31: No comments on the unit economics yet, but we'll have a whole quarter to get there.

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2 months

The design of your product is subservient to the problem it solves, not the product's technical implementation. If you get to design your leg muscles, you should change your gait because you want to move faster, not because your muscles are designed in a limiting way.

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2 months

Hoping that the value of a product is directly related to how quickly you can improve your assumptions. Either that or I'm just coping for the dozen or so bad assumptions I've already found and removed. Dozens more to come, I'm sure.

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8 months

I was just chased by a doberman on the beach. Here’s are 6 things I learned 🧵

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2 months

As an example, I compared the way you can use lisp to increase levels of abstraction to how you should make applying pressure in jiu jitsu second nature. That way, pressure is on auto pilot when you go for a higher level thing, like a submission.

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2 months

3) Keep Learning You'll make mistakes; they're there to teach you. If it's a simple mistake, leverage a system to avoid it. You don't have to remember that declaring a function in your lisp dialect uses "defn" if you can just scroll up in your code to refer back to it.

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7 months

We just got our first bit of revenue for sales intelligence at Ultima. Small start, but only up from here.

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12 days

The wings on my eyeliner are on fleek

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25 days

Dad: We have AlphaSense at home The AlphaSense at home:

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24 days

Goblin mode >>>>> founder mode It’s a sort of liminal space just beyond the reaches of founder mode

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3 months

I dream of a day when every site has an LLM in the resources folder

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7 months

The 21st century tragedy is that for many, the spirit expires long before the body does.

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1 month

I feel like developing a project on two os’s concurrently is a good way to learn about computers

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1 year

Some friends and I from @Ultima_Insights have put together an #AI pipeline to summarize news flow on your portfolio via email every morning, and we need as much feedback as possible! Front end is still a bit glitchy, but here's the link:

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1 month

Does olive oil cancel out canola oil

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You have to make things better, not just different

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21 days

me: Build robust systems! also me: breaks prod 60 minutes before a demo

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2 months

Following this method, this year alone, I've taught myself 3 programming languages, closed my first B2B sales, and started surfing. If you want to join me on my journey of learning how to learn, click the link in the bio to subscribe to my weekly newsletter.

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1 month

You gotta pump those numbers up

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19 days

Jack and I have been hard at work building BirdDog & are excited to share our second demo video below.

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2 years

@KEDM_COM

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2 months

More thought policing

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7 months

For the surest way to cause utter chaos and sheer confusion, order a pound of ground beef from McDonalds.

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1 year

@mwalts0 Shoppenhiemer

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1 month

Copilot is picking up on my commenting style

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1 year

Why go out on a saturday night when you could be putting a computer together in your bathroom?

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2 months

If it's a more complex mistake, go back to step one. Use the mistake to guide your future learnings about the subject. Then, keep executing.

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2 months

2) Execute If you're trying to learn how to code, code. But, make sure that all the while, you keep referencing back to the information you've consumed. If the quirks in lisp are there to help you abstract away your code, you better be abstracting it away.

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2 months

I love escalators

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17 days

the more I focus, the less a "to do list" matters. I know I'm on the right track if I'm working on product or talking to users

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2 months

Update: I removed myself from a cafe after the manager told me “The computer on the weekend is not possible”

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5 months

"Our goal is not to replace your crm... our goal is to become the platform you do your sales on!" @caddycapital

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25 days

I still don't know what "hacking" is exactly, but it definitely involves getting technology to do things not defined in the user manual

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3 months

I love spreading the religion 🥋

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i just arrived in cambridge and was already invited to roll

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Yeah I'm like that

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7 months

Surfing is rad. Post on how I learned in less time than it's going to take me to get from Costa Rica to Mi today:

On Surfing

Or how I learned to shred the gnar

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8 months

Took me a week to get my first sunburn in costa rica, and it’s really not that bad; yet, I have been spending ~40% of my waking hours outside and haven’t worn sunscreen once. I still don’t plan on it. You can get pretty far if you’re just careful. Next time I go on a midday

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5 months

I don’t believe in karma, I just believe in efficient enough social markets

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2 months

I feel so cool when I use hotkeys more than my touchpad

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6 months

The habit tracker is not the goal. The habit tracker is how you maintain a minimum acceptable state or a minimum level of progress in secondary fields while you push towards the primary objective. Full post here:

On Optimization

The only question that matters: What are you optimizing for?

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3 months

But don’t tell no lie about me, and I won’t tell truths ‘bout you.

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2 months

Only one of these two deserves to be on my computer, and it's certainly not R

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5 months

Surprising similarity between Bee Keeping 🐝 and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 🥋: Forced calm. There's a negative feedback loop around shallow breathing and panicking... if you're not breathing deeply and keeping a clear head, the bees sting you or your opponent taps you.

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2 months

Everybody else uses hinge to add new subscribers to their blog, right?

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29 days

"Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?" Kevin from the office was on to something--minimizing the length of information and maximizing the value of the signal is value add for society. My reflections on signal density:

On Signal Density

“So me think, why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”

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6 months

First hit piece on Ultima--good validation.

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5 months

We’re in the end game now

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2 months

You give us a prospect list & some keywords you care about, and we go to town finding relevant quotes. You can use those quotes to understand the prospect, write a killer cold email, and, if you're good enough at what you do, maybe close the deal :)

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7 months

*Sends prospect a product walkthrough video recorded while I have a black eye* *Thinks: Based*

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8 months

SFO, circa 2024. The singularity is upon us.

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27 days

@theShaneLevine Code and content are converging

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22 days

My favorite director is Werner Herzog. 70 movies, 12+ books. The man ships. He embodies the belief that the best way to produce a high quality of product is to produce a high quantity of product. Full take:

On Perfection

What film director Werner Herzog taught me about shipping code.

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6 months

Early stage B2B SaaS is literally just software consulting.

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2 months

"But I don't think of you." -Howard Roarke Overcoming your "enemies" means letting go. If someone hurt you, and you keep feeling hurt by it, they're still hurting you. The best victory is moving on.

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8 months

Overheard at a founder house: "Oh, I just realized it's the super bowl tomorrow." "Whose uh... whose like... playing?" "Uh the chiefs and 49'ers, I think." "Oh. I don't know those guys." I've found my people.

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4 months

@indiraschka Living in c house

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1 month

Attempting to rap along with eminem songs has to be the best way to improve enunciation