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Spent $1,500 on a conference?
Flights, hotel, meals—all deductible if you kept the receipt.
Snap. Track. Save → apps.apple.com/ca/app/taxai-…
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Running 3 side hustles but your receipts still live in your car?
Snap → categorize → done. Stay ready before tax season.
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Financial freedom is being ecstatic for 3 months. Then you will be bored. Then you will be lost.
You travel, you eat whatever you want, you buy things, you sleep in every morning, trying every hobby out there, working out. It is great… until it isn’t.
You can only vacation for so long before vacation becomes the new normal, and normal becomes empty. Humans aren’t built for unlimited leisure.
The thing is, when you're on your own, you stop dreaming about these holidays, because you know that you can go whenever you want, and this automatically leads to that you have no need for it anymore.
The beach holiday was simply a metaphor for an escape. But now you don't need to escape. You are free.
Now you just need to find purpose.
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quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat clean. journal. save a life. learn to code. read poetry. create art. stay composed. refine your speech. optimise for efficiency. act sincere. help people. be kind. stop doing things that waste your time. follow your intuition. craft reputation. learn persuasion. systemise your day (or don’t). write. write. write. write more. iterate violently. leave your phone at home. walk to the grocery store. talk to strangers. feed the dogs. visit bookstores. look for 1800s novels. experience art. then love. sit with a monk and offer them lunch. don't talk shit about people. embody virtue. sit alone. do something with your life. what do you want to create? turn off your mind. play. play a sport. combat sports. notice fonts in trees. fall in love. notice patterns on a table. visualise it. talk to people with respect. don't hate. be loving. be real. become yourself. cherrypick your qualities. discard the useless. rejections aren't permanent. invite what aligns. accept what does not. read great people. be different. choose different. do great work. let it consume you. lose your mind. value your time. experience life.
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If you can’t handle stress, don’t get into startups or mobile apps
Almost every week I’m solving problems that shouldn’t even exist. No one warns you that besides writing code, you’ll deal with app reviews, rejections, SDK bugs, support issues, legal stuff, and weird glitches that happen “just because”
You either learn to take the hits - or burn out fast
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Canada should be the best place in the world to build a startup.
But it keeps training world‑class founders and engineers only to watch them move south. Brain drain is the country's largest export.
Deep learning was born in Canada in Geoffrey Hinton’s UofT lab with Ilya Sutskever and Yoshua Bengio. But most of AI’s value is captured by Bay Area companies.
Canada has the opportunity to be the best place in the world to build.
It has:
- A very strong international brand. Smart people want to come here.
- Easy access to the US market.
- Insane talent pool from Waterloo and other universities. (I did a Tesla internship, half the engineering interns were Waterloo students who planned to stay in Silicon Valley).
- Strong startup culture. A lot of people want to build.
@buildcanada is a great initiative but we need to borrow a few ideas from @euaccofficial.
1. Tax break for new startups – 0 % corporate tax for the first three years, up to C$10 M in revenue.
2. Fix the Start-up Visa Program.
- Remove the requirement to get a commitment from a Canadian VC. (It should be enough to prove you're exceptional and want to build)
- Make the processing time 2 weeks not 40 months
3. Stripe Atlas @atlas for a 1-click incorporation, banking, and tax registration.
4. QSBC 2.0 – lift the lifetime exemption to ≥ C$10 M to be comparable to US version
That’s the minimum bar if we want the next generation of AI companies to incorporate in Canada and stay here.
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maybe it's not about changing the world, maybe its not about the billions. but maybe it's as simple as the fact that somebody somewhere invented the screen ur seeing this on, the chair i’m sitting in. the music playing through my headphones. and because of them, the world is a bit less dark. maybe that is reason enough to do something sick for the world, no matter how big or small.
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5/7
Genuine kindness is highly underrated. Being kind to someone can go a long way. I struggled with this for a long while and still do, but whenever I share kindness, it shows up for me in an amazing way.
Kindness is not niceness. Be kind, in code reviews, on Slack, at work.
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They want your art. They just haven’t seen it yet.
They want to work with you, they just haven’t met you yet.
They want to invest in you, they just don’t know what you’re building…yet.
“They” does not mean everyone. “They” just means YOUR PEOPLE. Go out and find them.
gm ✨
