a few years ago i got covid and never recovered. i went from exercising every day to completely bedbound. lost 40lbs. in and out of hospitals for over 2 years. saw 20 doctors. bloodwork came back normal. "you're probably just stressed from being a founder."

san francisco is the best city in the world for builders. except we can't seem to build a damn thing. we are in a housing crisis, and nobody is treating it like one. this should be a five alarm emergency. instead, most of our downtown sits as single story convenience stores and parking lots. there is wasted space everywhere while my one bedroom apartment is pushing over $5k/month. if we want this city to continue thriving, we can't keep waiting. every month we don't act, more talented people get priced out. founders, engineers, artists. the people who make this city what it is. by now we should have 50 cranes filling the skyline. the entire downtown corridor should be filled with high density high rises. instead we have parking lots and a permitting process that takes longer than building the actual building. the demand is there, the supply is not. cut the bullshit, and let people build: - fast track permitting. cut the approval timeline from years to months - cut developer fees. we'll make it up ten times over in tax revenue from a thriving economy - create tax incentives for developers who break ground immediately. remove transfer tax on abandoned buildings. make it easier to build than to let a building sit empty - reform ceqa so a single lawsuit can't kill a project. stop letting politics destroy our city's future - set a target. approve enough projects to replace 50% of our vacant buildings within 12 months the city that tells founders to move fast and break things has spent decades moving slow and breaking almost no ground. our city is on fire. people want to live here. we need to start acting like it.

tomorrow at 9am 🚀 1,000 people applied $45,000 in prizes a team dinner at xAI for the winners the biggest opportunity in healthcare is putting patients in the driver's seat. LFG

the best and worst part of being a founder: best: - you chart your own course every day. nobody tells you what to do. worst: - you chart your own course every day. nobody tells you what to do.

come build!! This Saturday in sf

Legion Health x Atlas AI are hosting the first Autonomous Healthcare Hackathon, which is happening in SF on June 13th It is sponsored by xAI, Vercel, Cursor, and Inngest. If you are building autonomous agents for patient agency, this is the place to be Register now: luma.com/zru7alb6

looking for 1-2 volunteers in SF to help @ArthurMacwaters and me run this hackathon on Saturday!!! mostly event ops, attendee support, and contributing good vibes. lmk if interested 👀

this is true and very exciting. we're about to be done with deterministic interfaces that look the same for every user. entering into a world where every pixel is generated entirely on the fly based on context and use-case.

burned 75% of my claude max limit on sunday alone AMA

a healthy person wants 1000 things. a sick person only wants 1. and that makes you a target. when you're desperate to feel better, every supplement, every lab draw, every new protocol from some guy on twitter feels like progress. but it's not always progress. it's dopamine. it's the feeling of doing something when you don't know what to do. i fell into this trap too. it's really hard not to. i spent months buying every supplement i read about. stacking protocols. getting blood work done every few weeks. obsessing over biomarkers. reading every reddit thread. convincing myself that the next thing would be the thing. most of it was noise. the real problem was i was treating symptoms and never asking why i was sick in the first place. that's what the whole system runs on. your doctor. the supplement industry. instagram health influencers. all of them sell you the next thing to manage how you feel, not fix what's wrong. the wellness industry doesn't make money when you get better. it makes money when you keep searching. the turning point for me was realizing i wasn't making progress. i was just staying busy. so i changed my approach: a) wrote down every hypothesis for what might be causing this b) picked one. tested it for a month to prove myself wrong, not right c) found other patients with my condition and compared notes i didn't just have an illness. i had become it. every waking hour went to obsessing over it. committing to one experiment didn't cure me. but it gave me my life back. i had one thing to focus on. if you can: test one thing. give it time. find people who get it.

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this is why early startups should focus on hiring senior talent. otherwise, every task you delegate still routes back through you, and they they cost you the scarcest thing you have (your time).

VC's will never tell you the real reason they passed. if they say "you're not that impressive" and you somehow make it, you're never calling them to fund your next round. so instead they say "we need to see more traction". always listen to the no. never listen to the reason.

an uncomfortable amount of founders have capitalized their companies on dishonesty. but vc is so competitive that nobody cares. investors would rather fund a fraud than miss the next unicorn.

interesting proposal - but where do you draw the line? if any company that uses public data, infrastructure, or research owes the government 50% of its stock once it becomes successful, then why stop at AI? should we retroactively take half of pfizer, tesla, or facebook too?

two kinds of people are taking peptides: biohackers squeezing the top 5% of performance out of their life & chronically ill people who have run out of better options. very different motivations. very different stakes. very different markets.

the best people already make more money than you can pay them. your job isn't to convince them the offer is good. it's to convince them the mission is worth the pay cut.