A response to a few racist messages I got — The news that you have a baby on the way should be a beautiful moment. I shared my news recently. My first child is due on 11/11/22. As always the internet surprised me with unexpected reactions. Massive email unsubscribes after sharing the news I shared the story with my large email list. And I asked for any…

“Went for a short trip to Ukraine and just got home. Are you freaking crazy?” — Imagine walking into Ukraine right now with a smile on your face. I spoke to a friend and former colleague last night. He did exactly that. “Mate, you didn’t answer all my calls last week. What’s going on? I said.” “Went for a short trip to Ukraine and just got…

“Dancing in the rain makes you feel free again” — What risk actually looks like is not doing something, that you will spend the rest of your life regretting — Sam Altman Regrets drive a lot of decision-making. I quit my job last year to have less regrets. I tried entrepreneurship and built an online business again after a devastating…

Hang out with the non-cliche types. The oddballs. The obsessive. The ones who attach balloons to a gardening chair to see what it’s like to fly. — Time speeds up as you get older. Ask any adult and they’ll tell you. As a child, life goes painfully slow. You’re dying to grow up as fast as you can so you can watch horror movies and the odd nude scene. By the time you become a teenager you…

“Sustained outrage makes you stupid” — Stupidity makes everything in society harder. Go into an office building and notice the hundreds of warning signs. Everything from “watch your step” to “don’t bang your head on this wall.” Funny observation: at the last office I worked in there was a sign that said “if you’re frustrated, bang…

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from” — There are life snoozers everywhere. I was one of them. Cruising through the days, hoping to make it to the other side so watching a Hollywood movie could lower my anxiety. Only to do it all the next day until every day became groundhog day — weeks felt so similar…

Habits are a distraction from the truth that can make you relentlessly unstoppable. — Heroin is the last thing in the world I expected to find inspiring. Yet here we are. No I didn’t shoot up. I’m afraid of needles and drop to the floor at the sight of them. What happened is I came across Scott Leonardi, a former addict. He describes driving…

They’ll inspire the heck out of you. — The birthday right before you become a parent is meant to be scary. I feel okay. But what the heck do I know. This is my last bash with freedom. The next birthday will be full of baby screams. I ain’t mad it though. Sounds like a blast haha. Today…

The creator economy will get a new business model. — Creating content online still sucks. We’re still mostly in the age of Web2 which is the era of mobile apps and social media. We’re moving slowly into the world of Web3 — the next version of the internet. Web3 is simply an internet built on top of decentralized blockchain technology…