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Jul 19, 2022

Them: “What do you do for work?” Me: “I work on myself.”

Jan 25

New twitter “for you” tab really increases value of likes

Jan 25

I once hit up a girl I dated to ask her to have an informational interview with someone about her place of work. She wasn’t having it.

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texting a guy who ghosted me so I could intro him to a founder bc super connectors don’t feel shame

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Based on those I follow, it looks like ig status updates have not stuck

Pence had classified docs in his home as well. The difference between him and Biden's situation and that of Trump's: malice aforethought.

Rep. George Santos gets House committee seats despite blowback for major lies on resume

It's an inexpensive way to show someone you care about them while at the same time indoctrinating them to your belief system without mansplaining 🤣

I love buying people books.

Wild that fake news like nytimes is only fake until it serves your agenda.

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Manu Raju

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Jan 23

House Oversight Chairman James Comer asks Secret Service to turn over visitor logs from Biden’s Wilmington home after classified docs found there

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Congressman Bill Foster

@RepBillFoster

Jan 20

I'm thrilled to be joined on the Science Committee by my Republican colleague Dr. George Santos, winner of not only the Nobel Prize, but also the Fields Medal - the top prize in Mathematics - for his groundbreaking work with imaginary numbers.

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Both Republicans and Democrats have called on Santos to resign.

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Making Sense of Founder Gibberish

So many early stage founders talk about traction in qualitative bullet points that lack a narrative that's easy to follow and metrics that can be used as a frame of reference for understanding their...

"we are about to release feature z" => we're releasing customer-requested features on a weekly cadence, which are driving our net new ACV an average of 10%

"we just got a funding commitment from y" => the latest commitment from ____ means we've circled 80% of the current round

"we just closed x" => our customer count has grown an average of 100% over the past three months from A to B

Here are some ways early stage founders can move from qualitative metrics to quantitative ones:

For example, during our pre-seed, I focused on media mentions to create scarcity and thus build demand amongst early investors. In the seed round, I focused on user growth. In the A round I focused on ARR. In the B round I started focusing on our marketplace's network effects.

Early on, when I was raising capital for Social Tables, I learned that startups have a different metric for traction at every stage. It was my job as the founder to identify this stage-specific metric and communicate its trajectory.

So many early stage founders talk about traction in qualitative bullet points, e.g. "we just closed x" or "we just got a funding commitment for y" or "we are about to release feature z" instead of quantifying these into KPIs that signal growth.

To share this idea with someone else, send them to my blog post on the topic here:

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A Preamble as a Tool for More Effective Meetings

New year, new goals, new promises, etc. Sure, you can kick off the year by cancelling all recurring meetings, but instead of such a radical approach, why not try to make the ones you have better? One...

This preamble's goal was to encourage debate, humility, and accountability. Feel free to steal it or, even better, come up with your own.

"Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to engage in open & constructive conflict. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, & their concerns without fear of reprisal. They hold each team member accountable and ensure a high standard of performance."

My suggestion: Add a mantra to all of your recurring meetings to kick them-off in the right tone. At Social Tables, we started each weekly exec meeting with the following preamble, inspired by Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team book. It read:

While some leaders take a radical approach, like cancelling all recurring meetings, I'd like to propose an alternative.

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E-commerce giant cancels 76,500 hours of meetings in new year

Shopify Chief Operating Officer Kaz Nejatian said in an internal letter sent to employees that it will be clearing out over 76,000 hours of meetings in the new year.

If you are like me, you get excited by a new year because it's an opportunity to reset and start anew.

Speaker McCarthy just thanked Trump. What a cuck.

is a master fucking orator. Bow down. #SpeakerVote

Jan 7

Additionally, intonation and delivery is basically Obama 2.0 🫡

If anything is clear out of this week-long #SpeakerVote fiasco it’s that

has serious chill.

I bet Gaetz and Boebert are hooking up.

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Thanks to

, who sang “Let Me Share My Screen” to the tune of “Let Me Clear My Throat” in my first zoom call of the year, I’m feeling especially optimistic and sassy this time around. #writerslife #letsgo

Dec 30, 2022

I find it hilarious that the word "bro" has become patronizing