I exited RightMessage last year, the SaaS I'd been building with my buddy @brennandunn since 2017 I'm so proud of what we built, but it was time Here's the writeup: why I left, the practicalities of selling a startup, the emotional ride that followed

we're severely underappreciating the negative impact of modern tech/AI on human wellbeing (yes there's incredible upside too. that's a separate point) all my investment (energy & money) is going into the giant wave behind the AI wave: helping humans feel connected and expansive

I'm publishing my first book next year So it's time to get writing Want to write your own book?? Join me. I'll walk us through some prep/outlining activities in Dec, and then daily writing in Jan to have a completed first draft by Jan 31

sometimes the solution is realising you don't need one

Didn't think I'd write today. Yesterday was just flowing. Doing it again today feels like it's "a thing". But I've learnt by now that if I just lower the bar… everything's only as important as we make it… So Fuck it Let's gooo Don't know if I'll even publish it (Lol, am I

Notice whenever you get a feeling of uncertainty, or frustration, or physical pain. Can you simply welcome that experience, allow it to be there, sink more deeply into it? What, if anything, would it like you to know?

100%. Burnout is the result of self-abandonment not overwork

it’s ok to be sad

Wow, OK I feel like writing 1000 words today Like I used to do for a while last year Stream of consciousness Let's see The first thing that's interesting is I notice that when I sit to write this, the first thing I did was to tune into my body to see what was present. That

Kindness is hot

"what part of me feels safer with what i have now than with what i'm saying i want?"

"i need to try harder" becomes a fight. "some part of me doesn't want this" can become curiosity

most of the suffering i see in smart, ambitious founders is some version of believing the latter ones over the former

this is fundamentally, directionally different than "you don't want it enough" or "you need to try harder"

if every part of you wanted it you'd have it by now

It can be more useful to sit with how a feeling feels in the present than to run off into thoughts about the future

I don't know

📣 We're excited to announce Mastering Postgres, a video course coming October 15th. @steve_tenuto and I started this business with dreams to improve the quality of database education. With the help of @xata, this course is our next step in that direction.

Woah, journaled 60k words so far this year 294 pages Thanks for the inspiration @petersuhm

Trainer introduced me to supersets this morning 🥵💪 that's one way to wake up

Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now