launching Weekends & Nights — for obsessed builders who are currently employed and want to start a company. one-month sprint (weekends + nights) outside DC this January. all costs covered by NQB8. I’ll be working alongside you. link below to apply (is highly selective)

Why does it always take 14 minutes to connect and pay for united wifi? Can’t it be done in less than 20 seconds?

Why guess when you can know?

Apple’s take on AI hardware - $4,000 ski goggles Meta’s take on AI hardware - plastic sunglasses both do basically the same thing

have now sampled every snack food in the world and declaring a clear winner: Corn Nuts (original flavor)

companies like Google should just change their comp structure to save money. each person at the company gets paid only $1 but they are allowed one insider bet per year (and they get all the profits from that). everyone is better off

the worst mediums for coordinating mtgs: Signal, WhatsApp. the best: email.

anonymous fan sent me this -- don't totally endorse but directionally correct

what they will not tell you: money seems very correlated with happiness. people are happier as they get richer. $100k < $1M < $10M < $100M < $1B etc. the richer the people, the more likely they are the be married, less likely to get divorced, more likely they will have

one of china’s biggest advantages is the massive supercluster of high tech manufacturers and suppliers all within minutes of each other in Shenzhen. if the US wants to reshore, it has to build something similar: raw materials, a port, talent, access to labor, and plenty of space

“Apple literally exports more from China per quarter than was exported from the Soviet Union to the US during the entire four decade Cold War.” conflict with china is NOT cold war 2.0. it is a totally new paradigm

great podcast: Ben Miller interviewing Hallie Hoffman -- highly recommend! https://t.co/z9IE3e6Zkt

Flex Capital is hiring a principal in San Francisco. ping me if you have suggestions of amazing people. must be in the top 2% of people you know.

chinese gangsters figured out how to make more profit per iphone than apple. they bought phones from carriers in the US for cheap with a cell plan, jailbreak them, fly them to china, then exploit apple's warranty policy to get them working in country. apple took years to figure

more at:

new World of DaaS with @patrickmcgee_ on his book Apple in China. most important book i read this year. we cover: 🍎how apple’s policies created Huawei 💰the $275b investment in china 📱organized crime iphone distribution 🏭realities of reshoring

Thrilled to introduce @SoxtonAI! We help founders nail legal at the speed of innovation without the price of big law. I am a founder building the type of law firm I'd want to use. Thank you @meliarobin and @BusinessInsider for covering our launch! https://t.co/AHWWz7cIW9

i LOVE the matter reading app

spent two days in Detroit as a tourist. AMAZING city. great scene. highly recommend going on vacation to American cities

top things to eat on Thanksgiving: 10. Cranberry sauce (WORST) 9. Pumpkin Pie 8. Green beans 7. Mashed Potatoes 6. Turkey 5. Chocolate Pecan Pie 4. Sweet Potatoes 3. Gravy 2. Apple Pie 1. Stuffing (BEST)

“how do you get higher ownership in the things you have the most conviction in?” diving into the studio model with @davemorin

two theories of work. vote for the right one.