Life update: I’m joining @stripe to work on Community Comms! Stripe powers every startup I admire and every builder I look up to, and now I get to help tell that story from the inside. I’ll be working with @alypavs, @caitbhri, and the team to highlight what’s possible with

"The Lifestyle era was not about creating culture; it was about attaching brands to existing cultural contexts. […] The new order we are entering reverses this. For some organizations, culture has become the product itself, and products have become secondary, auxiliary, to the

what makes tweeting hard is that it requires you to be extremely online and maintain enough psychological distance from being online to have interesting thoughts about offline reality most people can do one or the other terminally online people understand the meta-layers and

it works, but not because of the city it works because the type of person who can drop everything and move with no plan is already the type of person who makes things happen sf selects for risk tolerance over talent

i talked about social tokens when they were basically a joke → made one → wrote a book → got coindesk to launch one irl going narrow on something dumb beats going broad on something obvious

love how anthpo broke down his approach to viral storytelling in that colin & samir interview and it's basically cialdini's influence framework but for content: [x] reciprocity: give people something valuable first (entertainment, insight, whatever) and they'll naturally want to

side note: kocienda's book Creative Selection walks through the whole process. one of the better tech books out there

the iOS keyboard bug is annoying, but it's also accidentally revealing how clever the original system was. the apple keyboard constantly uses a two-layer logic: the touch model, which figures out what key you meant to hit based on tap location, surrounding keys, finger drift,

Many things worth pursuing in life start out looking low-status. MrBeast began by counting to 100,000 alone in his room. Taylor Swift started as a country singer. To make it, they all climbed the mountain of cringe: a climb you must make before you can descend into the land of

1.5% is actually pretty fair for the ease of use of a composable treasury cloud where every rail (card, ACH, chain, Visa card) is just a parameter Businesses can send dollars through whichever path makes the most sense in real time, whether that’s a blockchain, a bank wire, or a

few realize this move was as big as Apple switching from Intel to its own chips With bridge, Privy, and USDB, Stripe controls the infrastructure, the identity layer, and the currency they own the entire stack, depend on fewer middlemen, and can capture both the toll and the

we basically have 9 engineers for 1 marketer in crypto

this is what great copywriting looks like

visibility is quickly becoming a substitute for credentials, and a great piece of content about something you’ve built will reach 100x more people than trying your luck in DMs or at networking events your timeline is your resume.

every company without a vibe marketer will be left behind

TIL the name “iPod” came from copywriter vinnie chieco, who saw the first prototype and thought it looked like the white EVA pods and spaceship interiors from kubrick’s “2001: a space odyssey" the line “open the pod bay door, hal!” popped into his head, and the metaphor just

a few more examples:

we just shipped a new discover page on web one place for all the stuff you actually want to see, minus the noise. i’m personally curating the articles that make it to the feed with an awesome team search shouldn’t just wait for you to ask. discover surfaces what matters, and

“the whole world has opened up to me, but it’s too late” not the words of a failed artist the words of one of the greatest living filmmakers the curse of mastery is that it arrives when energy fades

there’s a strange comfort in realizing that nobody escapes uncertainty. even the people you admire most have had nights where the future felt like a locked door. the only difference is some kept knocking, even when it felt pointless.