1/ Excited to announce our $45M round for @albomx - a major milestone for us and the biggest Series B in Mexico for a fintech* company ever! https://t.co/vVskxD5KLb
The rarest object type in the universe isn't black holes. It's us. Conscious matter. The flame of life.
We have a duty to expand it in scope and scale in order to preserve it.
Working on something ambitious is like climbing a mountain that’s covered in fog.
You can't see a clear path to the top. You have to take a few steps into the unknown to be able to see the next few steps in front of you. Inevitably, sometimes you’ll end up a local maximum and have to backtrack. That’s fine, just keep moving.
The temptation of an entrepreneur is to wait until you have things figured out . . . but of course if you wait that long, its almost always too late.
Do things that are imperfect.
This is one of the most underrated observations in tech right now. if AI commoditizes software, what's actually safe?
- regulated and liability-bearing businesses (someone has to be on the hook)
- anything touching the physical world (hardware, manufacturing, energy)
- proprietary data sets (AI makes your data more valuable, not less)
- marketplaces and businesses with network effects (liquidity > software)
- operationally intense businesses (the "bad" businesses become the best ones)
- cybersecurity and physical security (more AI = more attack surface)
The most successful people I know all have an almost irrational belief that everything will work out
And I just recently learned the word for it: Pronoia.
It means the opposite of paranoia. The belief that the world is secretly conspiring in your favor.
The funny thing about Pronoia is that it's self-fulfilling.
When you believe things will work out, you try harder. You persist longer, and you see opportunities where others see dead ends.
What's that quote again?
"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." – Nat Friedman
We all need a little more pronoia in our lives.
the market is currently severely mispricing human life. right now, the consensus trade is to spend down biological assets (your body+mind) to acquire fiat currency and status. soon biological persistence will become the most valued asset.
You need silence to find ou what you think.
Many people are uncomfortable with silence. They fill every moment with sound ... music, podcasts, TV.
But this constant input leaves no room for output.
Give your mind the space it needs to speak to you.