Last month we held the 2nd annual @hawaiitechweek, in beautiful Honolulu. https://t.co/sc5nTQdBDo - 60+ events across 25+ venues - 3,000+ people attended ~2 events / average - Network grew to 4.5K people (80%) Here are the key highlights and stats.

😂😂😂 spot on

We've decided to transfer a big chunk of our #Bitcoin to a cold wallet, and store that cold wallet in a physical vault within our national territory. You can call it our first #Bitcoin piggy bank 🇸🇻 It's not much, but it's honest work 😂

Charlie may have been wrong on Bitcoin, but he's nearly perfect on everything else.

My friend @JohnGleeson10 is ripping across his fund Success Venture Partners + Substack (and the 🌊). The most amazing thing about @SubstackInc, X, and new media platforms is I can learn from the best in function or industry. @lulumeservey for comms, @karpathy for AI...and

Nearly every SPV now is touting a B2B startup focused on SMBs to enterprise scale AI across their operations.

You aren’t doing it correct until you have a Lee Kuan Yee bookmarks folder.

you don't hate the media enough

Over-complication is a sign of weak leadership. - Cannot remember

At Coinbase, it's a fireable offense to create a new committee that has not been explicitly approved by Brian or myself. In the vast majority of cases, spreading authority across multiple people is inefficient. And once you’ve added an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy to

I'm falling in love again with @readwise. I was an early user on Kindle, but haven't used it as often over the last couple of years. For products like these, I continue to pay because I believe what the founders are building. Flash forward to 2026, I'm completely overloaded and

Good morning. Stop listening to actors. Stop listening to politicians. Stop listening to the talking heads on the news. Block out all the noise, and start to critically think for yourself. And have a great day.

It’s all real politik from here on out. Obviously, I think my moral POV and principles are correct. But no one cares. What matters is who adheres to them. Everything else is so fake and 2021z

The U.S. from 1946–2009 was on easy mode. Most humans in history were never dealt a hand like that. We mistook an anomaly for the baseline.

If I ran the airplane, the couple with four carryons that take the entire bin instead of putting one each under their seat would immediately have all four bags sent to checked.

The ability to not bullshit oneself is magical.

Everyone and everything is pushing you to take a side or have an opinion in politics. Billionaires tech dudes debating on bird app whether murder or self-defense for the latest tragic vid. FWIW, the current right has no more principles or grounding than the left, just a

AMEX platinum card becoming harder to justify with each trip and annual raise in cost. Good for insurance, almost everything else is low quality or at best overpriced now. Int’l lounges maybe all that is left.

when you’re discussing with your parents and then you start noticing obvious signs of aging

In Vegas. I don’t smoke, drink, or gamble. What is this place? lol

to all my fellow bookmarkors