One of the best things about building a startup is that your company can reflect your values and the world you wish to see. With the government shutdown, many states are unable to offer partial or full food stamp/SNAP benefits next month, leaving 40M families without support

Today, @ValthosTech launches with $30M from @Lux_Capital, @OpenAI, and @foundersfund. For the past few months I’ve been working with their world-class team (@MIT, @GoogleDeepMind, @PalantirTech) building America’s modern next-gen infrastructure. Hiring –– DM me.

Why guess when you can know?

there's this old armenian man who loves jesus at one of my recovery meetings & he just said "anytime someone tells me they don't believe in god i tell them to go to the grocery store & stare at the fruits & vegetables for thirty minutes"

What do you think is going on at the pet cremation company that they’re protecting their IP/talent so much???

From George Steiner’s lectures, Nostalgia for the Absolute

Feeling invincible after the new grad hire on our team said my office fit was “fire”

Fascinating stat from one state (Texas's) Department of Health and Human Services self-evaluation. Buried on page 1041: they are managing 16,000 active contracts‼️

FTMO Verified prop traders walk their path. Rise now and start your FTMO Challenge!

"Brainrot" was coined by *checks notes* Henry David Thoureau in 1854?!

New line I’m going to use when I hang out with my East Asian friends

Having a perfect Sunday

A friend from high school is in seminary and has gotten yoked in the last few years. He told me that there’s a movement of young priests who’ve interpreted aspects of liturgy / theology of the body as a temple for the Holy Spirit as gains for Jesus (muscular Catholicism)

Must try the forbidden black wine

Now is an extremely good time to revisit Ribbonfarm essays - on myths / narrative construction, illusion in complex systems, premium mediocre SaaS, (dys)function in labor systems and careers - with everything going on in AI

When we ask candidates interviewing at Fortuna Health if they're willing to run through walls, we (literally!) mean it. We’re expanding the team again and I’m hiring a growth engineer. If you’re wired on GTM, love automations, thrive in regulated spaces like healthcare/fintech,

The two types of people who always leave profound impressions on me: the truth seekers and the ones that bend the world to their will. Usually zero overlap in people sharing both traits

This November 29, one guest will experience the ultimate travel reward! Play all month and let your next adventure begin at FireKeepers.

Obsessed with the aesthetic of Djibouti’s International Free Trade Zone

Up until 2023, the age of consent in Japan was 13. Fascinating for a country that is both sexless but obsessed with fertility…

From 1927-1947, Harvard operated a "Fatigue Laboratory." A lot of their research was never published. But we know they were involved in: 1. Lots of self-experiments. 2. Development of early methods to study molecules in blood. 3. Refining meals given to soldiers during WWII.

I recently learned the history of Tabasco sauce and I'm sorry to share that it is essentially the revenge story of a Confederate lawyer who lost all his wealth (monopoly on salt works in Louisiana) when the North won the Civil War. Tabasco Sauce was his Rippling

Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.

2022 timestamp (wrote startups should get into organ transplant market and disrupt the nonprofit monopolies):