Brendan Nelson

Curious about tech, outdoors, and live music. Learning and investing along the way. Software sales leader, proud dad.

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Once we got to the top of the hill, she said, “You can turn around now, Dad.”

It hit me like a ton of bricks. I looked at the grass, each sparkling piece of dew, trying to freeze the moment in time. For the past eight years, since moving into this neighborhood, I had looked forward to walking my future child to school. Now that I was here, I couldn’t help but have flashbacks to a number of “last times”: the last time I fed my daughter a bottle, the last time I helped her walk, the last time I spoon-fed her. And it reminded me of how quickly more last times will come.

Here we were…only on day five of kindergarten and the new school and already I wasn’t walking her all the way to the classroom. I knew that soon she wouldn’t even want me to walk her to the top of the hill.

So what did I do? I stopped at the top of the hill and gave her a hug. Just two minutes earlier I had been reminding her to move faster, to hurry up the hill. For what? Because I needed to get on a call? To talk to someone who could disappear from my life tomorrow, and I wouldn’t skip a beat? Was that really more important?

Alas, the cliché is true: I can either dwell on the past or be grateful for it…and grateful for this moment, because this moment is all there is. Next time I’m on this walk, I’ll try to slow down. Not to rush the climb to the top of that hill. Because if I’m lucky, she’ll let me walk her there again, instead of turning me back from the bottom.

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@martin_casado Also - enjoyed your appearance on @jaltma podcast. Learned some things…

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@martin_casado It’s a catch all. Useful role to have IMO in a world where titles aren’t as important and you can rotate the person in and out of the role to solve organizational problems.

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@Jason Hawk tuah on those bad boys JCAL

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@FitFounder 2026 flex will be all of these and living a successful life (career, physically/mentally fit) while juggling and raising multiple kids

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@steely__drew 🍿

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@HowThingsWork_ Anyone else flashback to the first time they seen Jurassic Park

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@SahilBloom High agency might be the best attribute/skill to be happy. Something I am trying to focus on with kids

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@signulll I used todo (wunderlist) but am migrating to notes bc less is more

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@Brandon93Smith There’s no choice. You’re also 10x more productive and learn how to act on leverage.

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@FitFounder I do not want to clear my kids plates when they’re done with them lll

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@naval The biggest sales opportunities are outbound. The best candidates are outbound.

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@sweatystartup Wild I know you preach this often. Taking to heart in hopes of learning this lesson vicariously

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@RobertGreene @thesamparr @ShaanVP Nice! Diff cultures colliding

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@matt_vanswol Due to the obesity problem we have it was wasting record amounts of water. Some are blaming the drought in CA on diving boards

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@Vinny_Daniel0 Not a good time to be “asset light”

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@NaithanJones If you are relaxed for more than 15 minutes there are natural built in alarms that go off

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It seems like a lot of successful ideas / investments in hindsight are either “how did I not think of that it was right there” OR contrary to what your first take would be. Lots of obvious ideas on the former re: AI but trying to think more on the latter.

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And we no longer need to have oversight of the responses, what will we do with all of our time? “Work on higher level strategy” or will everything become deflationary in cost because it’s easier and AI drastically improves the quality of everything

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Negotiating with a car dealer. We r both using ChatGPT (seemingly). Effectively agents working with each other to get the best deal with us as humans approving before sending a response. If you extrapolate this…