Building new stuff. x co-founder @FoundedCo (acq by @RBCx). Avid runner & record collector.

Joined June 2015
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"The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive."
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16 Dec 2025
Sometimes the market for something done very well is 100x the market for something done ok
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Canadian filmmaker Sean Menard recently uncovered nearly 100 reels of film chronicling Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope in 1980. This previously unseen footage is coming out later this year in a documentary titled “Run Terry Run”. It looks incredible.
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18 May 2025
we underestimate how much you have to break from convention to break through
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dark horse contender for favorite video online. can't even think about it without laughing
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The Paris Olympics opening ceremony: x.com/i/status/1632018467124…

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RT @HipCityReg: I beg a lot of you founders to go out and have some real life experiences, have some love for other people, listen to beaut…
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All of this! "Take your work seriously, but yourself less so. Hard work often looks suspiciously like play."
Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety:
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18 Jun 2024
The streaming feed of the Mets game just cut to a mariachi band playing “Higher” by Creed during the commercial. The vibes are wild right now 🤣
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Bravo @OmarMouallem 👏👏👏The Lebanese Burger Mafia was so great! And to premiere @HotDocs, no less! 🎬
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Replying to @Srirachachau
I want to know what was the creative process to create a joke like this
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3 Apr 2023
Could never hope to distill the breadth of his legacy in tweets, but here's some Sakamoto, since we're thinking of him today ⬇️
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19 Jul 2022
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
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🌟 A star is born! Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/ #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Today marks the end of what is surely one of the worst terms in #SCOTUS history. Guns and prayer and abortion got most of the attention. But that's not all the Court did. Here are just some of the Court's bad decisions: 1/25
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AOC just called on Biden to open abortion clinics on federal lands “right now”
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““Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt”—meaning that, if the public is in doubt about whether constitutional rights are in danger of disappearing, that is not liberty […]And it ushers in an era of grave doubt about the status of liberty in the US.”
The Supreme Court’s decision to remove the right to abortion is an exercise of raw judicial power, which is precisely what the Justices installed during Trump’s Presidency were put on the Court to achieve. nyer.cm/QDxgKPJ
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Please listen to this powerful message from @Ginella_M.
Thank you @Ginella_M Continue to speak truth to power.
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20 Apr 2021
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin has been convicted of the murder of George Floyd. For the first time in Minnesota state history, a white police officer has been held accountable for killing a Black man.
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