Me trying to download torrents as a kid.

built a perfect sleep routine. lying awake refining it.

declined a meeting to protect my calendar. they made it recurring

Come to Hoian habibi

hired a cleaner to reduce my anxiety. cleaned before they arrived.

made a five-year plan. gave up in the font-selection stage.

I was inspired by Josh's post to write about the core thesis behind Zero. 1 Long Humans My take, in a nutshell, is there's over investment into AI infrastructure and not enough investment into human infrastructure. I think the world is essentially shorting humans and going long on AI. In an age where technology is becoming extremely sophisticated, we need to invest in humans more than ever. Read it here: zero.university/insights thx for the inspo @JoshuaKushner and @ThriveHoldings

Long Humans ( 1) Look where capital is flowing and you'll see the world's position on humans. Trillions are going into compute, data centers, and models. At the same time, entry-level job postings have fallen about 35% since 2023, and roughly 43% of recent graduates are underemployed. The market is long AI and short humans. I think the short side of the trade is wrong. Every major technology wave so far has been followed by infrastructure for humans. Industrialization needed workers who could read and follow processes, so we built public schooling. The knowledge economy needed specialists, so we scaled universities. The technology came first, and then someone built the system that prepared humans to be valuable alongside it. And in each case, that second system became one of the defining institutions of its era. The AI wave has no such system yet. We have the most powerful technology in history and human development systems designed for the previous era. Schools still train people for an economy where knowledge had a shelf life of decades, and that economy is gone. So the gap between what humans are trained for and what the world needs is widening, while the money that could close it flows to the other side of the trade. A fair objection is that this time the technology may replace humans rather than complement them, in which case building infrastructure for humans is wasted effort. I'd take that seriously if value were staying in tasks. But it isn't. As AI absorbs well-specified work, the value of a human concentrates in deciding what's worth doing, in judgment under uncertainty, and in figuring things out when no specification exists. Those capabilities get more valuable as AI gets better, and almost nothing is being invested in producing them. The most valuable resource in the world isn't oil or gold. It's human potential. But resources don't extract themselves. Oil sat underground for millions of years until someone built drills, pipelines, and refineries. Human potential sits inside billions of people right now, and the extraction systems we've built for it (schools, degrees, multiple choice tests) recover a small fraction of what's there. Everyone understands what AI infrastructure means. We're spending trillions on data centers, chips, and power so machine intelligence has what it needs to grow, and entire industries exist to supply it. Ask me what the equivalent is for human intelligence. Nobody's building it. That's what Zero is, and human infrastructure is the most accurate name for it. Zero is the long position. We're building, deliberately and from first principles, the system that develops human capability the way past eras built systems to extract their defining resources. When everyone crowds one side of a trade, the other side gets cheap. Humans have never been cheaper to bet on, and the case for betting on them has never been stronger. The world is short humans. We're long. - Navid Inspired by @ThriveHoldings post titled "Long Humans".

bought a book on letting go. can't get rid of it.

We had one week to launch the @zero_university beta. The easy way out was right there. But Atul bhai and I couldn't ship something that looked like every other startup. So we designed the full site in a day, then built it live in @framer the next.

Frontend is the new backend

You know that moment when you're wearing headphones, deep in your work, only to realize the music was never playing? That was me while working on this animation. I built this XP completion scene back in January for @zero_university. It's a scenario completion stage inside the product. The challenge wasn't just making it look good, but making the moment feel rewarding. We spent a lot of time exploring interactions, motion, and small visual details that could make the experience feel more alive when a user completes a scenario. Looking back, it's still one of those projects where I got completely lost in the craft of making every frames and interaction feels right. ✨ Illustration : @Aksh_a1 . . . @rive_app

Claude Mythos/Fable 5 framer MCP is wild! zero.university

One fine morning, I was thrown into creating a reward system for @zero_university . First time working on a system for a product. I still remember trying to arrange things in my head. It almost felt like a five-year-old playing with Legos for the first time.

went on a first date to prove i was over her. talked about her.

set a screen time limit. spent it on the settings page.

so we had this idea to make tracking your progress on @zero_university feel less like a checklist and more like a game. tiny 3D worlds, where each building stood for a project you're working on, and each floor was a task or sub-task you had to finish.

set a screen time limit on my phone. got a second phone.

No filter #hoian

learned to meditate to stop overthinking. overthought my breathing.

blocked my calendar to do deep work. got a meeting about the block.