Building @foamlaundry

Joined May 2015
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The strongest moat in a startup is often founder obsession. Competitors can copy features. They cannot copy conviction.
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POV: you're vibe coding after drinking a Celsius on an empty stomach

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"Dating a model" can mean one of two very different things, depending where you live in California
LA: Have your agent talk to my agent. SF: Have your agent talk to my agent.
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one of my mentors told me: “you can accomplish everything you want, just not at the same time”
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This sucks but here's the thing: we need to normalize failures in the face of pushing hard for progress.
Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4. nsf.live/spacecoast
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May 13
.@foamlaundry in the wild, good find @logan_zylstra 🧡
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claude cowork is making me think maybe we’ll look back and it’ll be obvious that humans were never meant to spend their lives working behind a screen. we’ll see it as inevitable that computers do everything for us on computers and the future of work is cooler than we can imagine
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The “ai data centers are using all the water” thing was very radicalizing. I saw smart people, respected people, scientists- echo this back. You can not like data centers near you. You can complain they make electricity prices rise
 But the water point is a total hoax. Every data center on earth uses less water than American golf courses. And the water isn’t polluted, it isn’t destroyed. It’s a little warm. IT COULD STILL BE USED ON THE GOLF COURSES IF YOU WANT. Your local McDonald’s is using more water than a data center. It’s just shocking how unreal and fake that narrative is. Radicalizing.
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For me everything in life is about framing the problem. Framing business/life through the lens of an RPG game makes it feel like a cheatcode
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What if the Silicon Valley HBO intro covered 2020–2026?
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"You got lucky" The luck:
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This is probably my number one guiding principle in life
For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right
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For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right
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Jan 14
how it feels to start vibe coding at 1am
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Thank You UTAHđŸ•·đŸ•ž
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I just never thought I couldn’t
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27 Dec 2025
Notice how none of the REAL business guys are grouped up
 they’re busy running real businesses Notice how all the frauds house of cards stream, guru, social media guys all hang together?? Lesson n there
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24 Dec 2025
This is like Flash Boys style HFT but for PolyMarket. Fascinating

We printed money on Starlink PolyMarket. $24k in 15 days. Two devs, no insider info, no signals, no leverage. Sounds weird? Yeah, it did to us too at first. But when you break it down, it's almost stupidly simple. The Setup @Polymarket markets always resolve to $1. If UP DOWN < $1 -> you buy both sides -> guaranteed profit when it resolves. This isn't secret alpha. Everyone knows this. The problem? Speed. Those gaps exist for like 2-3 seconds max. Bots everywhere. Humans can't react fast enough. The Real Edge Polymarket sits behind Cloudflare. Order matching depends on geography. Milliseconds matter. So we built: VPS near their infrastructure WebSocket feed tracking live prices Scanner watching for UP DOWN < $1 Auto-buy when it triggers Nothing crazy. No AI/ML bullshit. The weird part: Starlink @Starlink satellites orbit around 340 miles up. When one passes nearly overhead, latency doesn't just stay stable - it drops. Fewer hops. Shorter distance. Physics. During those windows our orders hit the book milliseconds earlier than competition. That's it. That's the whole thing. Scanner finds gap -> orders arrive faster -> both fill -> market resolves -> $1 payout. Do this hundreds of times. Results: ~$24k profit, ~15 days (PM gabagool-inv) Costs: Starlink subscription VPS our time Just math network physics. No gambling. If this scales the way it has been, $1M in 3 months isn't unrealistic. Real question though: Is this a temporary inefficiency that'll get arbed away or is infrastructure arbitrage massively underpriced right now?
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chat, is this good? @amasad @Replit
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You don’t flip a switch into excellence. You rehearse it daily.
Tom Brady explains his mental edge and why practice (not gameday) creates separation. "There was a part of me that was a psychopath out there. I was extremely hypercompetitive every day. I didn't feel like let's get to Sunday and now it's the time...Every day is the time to give your best, even in practice." Every day your standards are either reinforced or lowered by how you treat practice. You don’t flip a switch into excellence. You rehearse it daily. đŸ“č: Impaulsive Podcast
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