1/ Hey all, want to announce that after 7 months as a Partner & Head of Platform at @hack_vc, I've decided to give my 2 week notice. Want to thank @ed_roman for bringing me on board & giving me the opportunity to explore/learn venture. For those unfamiliar with me, here's my

reading books to learn is massively overrated. do more things instead and learn via first principles. do stuff, reflect, learn and try again. not binary but learned knowledge in isolation without the sting of failing/tried attempts is inapplicable anyways and thus moot.

you cannot achieve your goals with this current version of you

Be delusional enough to believe that it's possible. Be disciplined enough to prove yourself right.

Underrated life lesson: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is built on resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you embrace that failure is never final.

The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.

the old way of scaling teams is dead: we used to hire specialists – designers, engineers, PMs – each in their lane, scaling by adding more people. but when Cursor can take you from idea to code in minutes, execution isn't the bottleneck anymore. taste and judgment are. what

Music to my ears. 🎶 Witnessing any artist in Web3 pull the community into their orbit is beautiful: this is an incredibly deserved moment for @cemhah. They've been grinding for years: anything's possible!

i have this friend who always hypes up & celebrates my tiniest achievements, which i used to find cringe & fairly annoying (~shame-driven protective minimization) but bit by it, her persistence got me to start seeing my wins through her eyes, & now, every once in a while I catch

devconnect is like daycare. everyone has a ton of fun and snacks and goes home with a cold

there are only like three variables in life that matter, everything else is just noise.

So ummm for me it's about fun, I love creating things and that's how I started and that's where I still am now and then in the middle came the money But if you only did it for the money then when you have the money life gets boring! Because money is very boring! It's just a

Added ‘almost there’ to my forever collection. Thanks @cemhah for the magic that he creates ✨ one day, I’ll be there.

There are only two positive sum games (games that grow the pie): Coordination and Innovation. Coordination brings N people together to do more than the sum of the parts. Example: money, constitution, free markets, venture capital. Innovation is the alchemy that converts a non

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Good artists create what they love without expecting anything in return. Good collectors collect what they love without expecting anything in return.

Every ceo needs a 6 week plan and an 18 month plan. The 18 month plan A) If the market totally collapsed like 2020: 1) what’s the product that the company needs to hyper focus on for the next 18 months. 2) what’s the team to do it 3) why isn’t this what the company looks

your mind can think of something impossible and if you’re stubborn enough, the universe will eventually shrug and let it happen. nothing around you was inevitable. not the chair you sit on, the food you eat or the products you use. someone just refused to drop the idea.

new @hsinju, same menace😋. handle upgrade secured!

For those in their 20s: - be fearless. fail often. - be open to trying things. decide early if it's a hard yes or hard no. learn from your mistakes. be intentional with your time. learn who you are: your boundaries, your values, & what makes you happy. - know that perfection

Buffet's few final thoughts in his final letter-