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It seems a mistake to call oneself a "non-technical founder." You're treating not knowing how to do something as a part of your identity. Surely it's better just to fix that.

George Orwell rolling in his grave

SF startups don’t win just because of talent and capital density. Startups are sacrifice. They require obsession and a high tolerance for pain. The people most willing to make that trade self-select into SF, the same way serious actors move to Hollywood. That makes the place self-fulfilling. Great companies can be built anywhere. I’m an investor in many in Seattle. But after splitting time between Seattle and SF for several months, I think every serious founder has to ask early on: what am I willing to sacrifice to make this work? Founders who move to SF have already asked and answered that question. That is the true advantage.

sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. you literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. you have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. the easy path does not exist. there is no get out of jail free card. you have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. and you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. it’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

obsessive passion childlike creativity athletic body delusional optimism peaceful mind unbeatable confidence relentless discipline magnetic charisma grounded presence endless curiosity radical honesty playful humor abundant gratitude ruthless focus

People believe they think clearly and just struggle to "put it into words." It's almost always backwards. The struggle to put it into words is the discovery that the thought wasn't clear yet. Writing is the brutal honesty machine. It takes the warm fog in your head that felt like understanding and forces it onto a line where every gap shows. You didn't lose the clarity in translation, you never had it. The page just told you.

u eventually start to love the game for the game. u wake up and do the work for the sake of the work and nothing else. To labor in arts or entrepreneurship for any reason other than love is prostitution

new policy from anthropic: if you use fable/mythos, they collect your data. no exceptions. not even for enterprise partners.

Your current life is, to an uncomfortable degree, an honest readout of who you've been.

If people think you are someone of importance, don’t trust their judgment.

The highest-leverage human alive is the one with a sharp mind and zero hesitation. They think, then they move, then they learn from the impact, then they think again. Faster every loop.

Give yourself permission to be cringe. Post on the internet. Upload that video. Do something, anything for the first time, and be okay with looking like like a fool. To become great at anything, you need to be bad at first. So put yourself out there and be fucking cringe.

i told myself i'd never make an intro post, but gtm team forced me to hey guys! 👋 i'm jerry - 4th in Canada for 200m breaststroke (u13) til i tore my acl - degen'd league till 8am everyday until i got my sht together - full-ride @USC as an international student - av research at 18 - yc founder at 20 (f25) @uselemma_ai - built ai agents @Chipstack, featured by jensen at computex - did NOT grow my linkedin to 10k in <1 year - #1 botc fan poker addict starting to regret growth hires

funding round too big calendar too full ACVs too large code too readable quota too easy NPS too high churn too low dilution too minimal employees staying too late CAC too microscopic runway too long burn rate too negative NRR too stratospheric real problems too difficult to locate

The victim mindset feels good for like 5 seconds and then traps you forever. "He didn't give me the job. She's unfair. The weather's depressing." Cool. Now what? You've just narrated yourself out of your own life.

The older i get, the more i realize that the things most people are chasing are not the things they truly want. beneath the desire for more money, more success, more followers, and more status is a deeper desire for peace. a healthy body that feels good to live in, a calm nervous system that isn’t constantly preparing for the next problem, meaningful work, people you love, and a relationship with God. everything else is just a bonus.

you become what you repeatedly do. if you spend your entire day planning - your mind will never learn to actually “do” anything. sometimes it’s worth to do anything just to reinforce the neurological pathways for having high agency, even if the output is mediocre.

the highest form of intellectualism is not a cynical grinding philosophizing looping.. it is lightness. it is childlike curiosity, play, whimsy, joy. it is a rejection of the minds narrow traps, an expansion into deeper knowings

Ramp is a case study in execution There have been multiple companies with similar ambitions, and Ramp is lapping everyone because it is simply one of the best run companies in existence

agi will kill the “average person” for most of history, kids wanted to grow up and fit in. if you are too different from the tribe - you’ll get kicked out. but American history has shown us that it is often those who are the most different - the misfits - who actually bring meaningful change into the world. this is especially true in the age of AI, where the average is seen as synthetic and the outlier is seen as authentic. the machine can write an “average” email. make an “average” movie. tell an “average” story. but it never met you, the real you. suddenly expressing your anger, your frustration, the burning passion in your heart is what sets you apart from a machine that is built to be numb. if you are average, and you “fit in” then you are no different from a matrix algorithm built to simulate your existence. you must venture past the comforts of the “average” to grow into your true self.