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."

sf is just a waterloo wrapper. let's keep it going! i'm hiring an AI-native software engineer to our founding team. looking for a canadian new grad who's hungry to build, move fast, and own entire parts of the product from day one. will cover your relocation to SF + visa. we’re building Atlas, a personal health agent for the 500M people living with chronic conditions that have no approved treatments. you’ll work directly with me to help build the future of patient-led healthcare. DM me your github + something you’ve built recently!

i started my first company in canada, and tried to raise a seed round investors complained that a $1M valuation was "insane" and laughed me out of the room the business climate is extremely risk averse and i honestly think all ambitious people should just move to the US

how to get more time back in your day: default your meetings to 20 minutes. 30 minutes is just a calendar setting. most calls can cover the same ground in 20 when everyone gets to the point. at 6 meetings/day, that’s 5 hours back every week.

you should try to kill your startup idea. - talk to hundreds of people who are experts in your space. - ask them to tear it apart, and tell you why it won’t work. - if, after all of this, you're still excited to build, you might just be onto something.

i love guerilla marketing but this is not the way. your startup does not deserve to turn natural beauty into advertising inventory. buy a billboard and leave nature alone.

im convinced every group chat in san francisco is just people asking you to like and repost their tweets

why isn’t caffeine free diet coke more popular? there are so many times where i pass by a vending machine and feel the craving but don’t want 46mg caffeine at 8pm

discretion is an underrated skill. as you grow in your career, you’ll learn things about people and companies that aren’t widely known. sharing them can make you feel important. but being trusted is worth more than being interesting.

if you want to be successful in business, you need to learn how to make people genuinely want you to win a lot of this comes down to being human enough for people to become emotionally invested in your success no one wants to cheerlead for a jerk who acts like they have everything figured out people want to feel like they’re part of the journey, not an audience watching you perform be honest about when things are working, when they’re not, what you're struggling with, and what you still don’t know people remember how you made them feel way more than they remember your pitch

i've met several people this week who recently moved to sf and are having a hard time feeling like this is home. on one hand, i completely understand it. this city can feel cold when people are sizing you up everywhere you go. how much you've raised, who your investors are, and whether you can help them get somewhere. but i've also met the best friends i've ever had here. great people live in this city, they just aren't attending the public luma events you find when you first move here. the people you're most likely to first meet aren't the people who will make you feel at home. it took a lot of time and effort to find my people. but if you want to make sf home, you have to break through the public event circuit and slowly become part of people's actual lives. part of that is being someone you'd want to spend time with. stop talking about AI for a minute. take an interest in someone's life. follow up because you enjoyed their company. invite them to something yourself. over time, those connections turn into dinners, birthdays, and friendships that don't live on a public calendar app. it takes a lot of effort, but i promise it's worth it.

i love tech week because my regular coffee shop becomes a networking event against my will

i'm in SF this week not for tech week, but because i live here

apparently we have our own santorini in california

the only reason i take uber/lyft over waymo is because an uber driver will totally floor it to get through a yellow light

would love to make as many new friends as possible if you see me, say hi! i promise i’m taller than you think

will be at @OpenAI DevDay tomorrow who am i seeing there? 👀

i’ve seen a lot of cofounder breakups. sometimes people just aren't meant to work together. but it's especially sad when two people who built something together can’t even talk anymore. don’t start a company with someone you wouldn’t shut a company down with.