“Be respectful, be responsible, be kind and be safe”
Product & Startup Builder
Communication & Consistency
A huge (yet underrated) part of success is just showing up consistently. Another is communicating clearly.
There’s Right And There’s Wrong . . .
“There’s right and there’s wrong. You stand up for what’s right and you fight what’s wrong.”
How Did Kanye Save His House From Fire?
A glimpse of America’s future? Privatize all the Things. A libertarian’s wet dream.
Memories
My dad just showed me a card for my going away party when I was leaving to Silicon Valley. Memories!
New MacBook Pro
Fancy Charity Gala
Americans Aren't That Divided
So the problem is gerrymandering, voter suppression, apathy and stupidity
AU VCs Won't Invest In This Company. Their Loss
Just heard about a company with 585k registered users and 370k monthly active. Growing rapidly organically. 3 person team with minuscule burn. Huge space. AU VCs won’t invest. Boggles the mind. Their loss.
Interesting How Words Imply Judgements
Interesting how words imply judgments. You can often describe the same thing in positive and negative terms. Worse, you can think something is a strength but really it’s just holding you back from having clear boundaries or moderating a pattern of unhealthy behavior.
Selfless / Victim
Tenacious / Stubborn
Very Driven / Overly Ambitious
Caring / Emotionally Volatile
Unattached / Detached
Chilled / Incurious
Unaffected / Indifferent or apathetic
Eccentric / Crazy (depends on money) h/t Luke
Any other examples?
People Don’t Know How To Drive
People don’t know how to drive. Things I’ve experienced just in the last 1 hour...
- People clustered on the “passing” lanes driving below the speed limit
- People merging into my lane just in front of me going slower than me (just over speed limit in passing lane)
- Someone cutting across multiple lanes then multiple lanes back to cut in front of me (through a small gap) - only to slam on the breaks because the car in front of me was barely a car length away.
And so much more I can’t even remember now...
It’s true what they say - most of driving is driving for other people.
What Does Legacy Mean To You?
Sometimes I feel like I live my life backwards. I try to use the technique of imagining what I would want to have accomplished and how I want people to remember me on my death bed - my legacy - and then I work backwards from there.
Last night we threw a big surprise party for my dad Richard’s 60th birthday. He had no idea but we had arranged for many of his friends old and new to be there to wish him a big SURPRISE!
The part that really elevated it, though, was a kind of forrest of beautiful helium balloons that each hung a photo from his past. We also had Google home showing photos of him on the TV.
So many memories embodied in people and photos. They were each touched so positively by my father. Made better, stronger, braver, warmer. Such a beautiful legacy.
I’m proud to be his son and I hope, one day, to be able to look back and say the same thing about my life.
Also, I want to thank my amazing girlfriend Aaleah who originally had the idea to do the party and spent so much creativity and time to make it so beautiful before and during the event!
RIP Stan Lee
Hilarious Art
An Infinitely Renewable Resource
Yep! Love is an infinitely renewable resource.
One thing people don’t completely realize is that the amount of love you can have is endless. From a logical standpoint the more love you give to someone the less love you have for another or the more love you have for yourself the less love we have for others. In reality, it is exactly the opposite. The more love you give to someone the more love you have to give everyone else. The more love you have for yourself the more loving you of everyone around.
One thing that helped me to start experiencing what it means is dropping a time as a category. You want to see the depth and quality of your feelings, not the amount of time you spend together. If you love someone you want to give your loved ones as much time as they need to come to the similar feeling as you have for the them. The beauty is that when we don’t rush anyone they always fall in love with us too. It’s beautiful when you give love a chance to be where it has always been, in timeliness.
Family Dinner For Dad’s 60th
Family dinner for dad’s 60th
Ignoring Trump's Racism
I enjoy how Trump’s lie about how there are Middle Easterners in the “caravan” is being debated on the merits of its “truth”. No one, though, seems to be pointing out how it’s racist.
Global Warming Ignored As Always
Always fascinating how little the news mentions global warming in relation to the epic scale of the recent storms
Parents Who Don't Explain
Parents who bark orders and don’t explain the world really frustrate me
Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person
“We’re on a quest to find someone who will make us suffer in a way that feels familiar” - lucky Aaleah doesn’t make me suffer. Great talk though!