Still riding the wave from all the recent love — had to share the moment that proves why I built this.
Rented a Tesla to take the kids to a Monster Truck show in Indy. Fired up ChargeRight on the dash to show them what Dad built.
As the IBEW Master Electrician who created the $12.99 tool that proves 70-80% of EV owners DON’T need a $3,000–$5,000 panel upgrade… seeing my own app running live on a Tesla still hits different every single time. Pure kid-like wonder.
What’s the biggest “I actually built that” moment that still gives you chills?
An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture
Some of our best hires were totally unqualified on paper.
They always had the same qualities: entrepreneurial, high agency, smart, mission aligned, and they got shit done.
If you’re hiring, especially in early stages, seek out & bet on these people. Don’t over-index on resumes.
Nobody tells you this: Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It’s the dopamine from reading, planning, or learning, but never doing. Stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.
This could be a MASSIVE healthcare opportunity.
Models you can run locally, on locally stored data removes a TON of the HIPPA induced hesitancy these companies have.
Open source projects like these will be a massive unlock
More ways to move money, with the trust and scale businesses expect. Proud to partner with @SoFi to enable SoFiUSD settlement across our network and support always on commerce.
just installed the first DreamPark vending machine at Dave & Busters Hollywood turning the entire arcade floor into a game! This was just an idea one month ago and now it’s at a major arcade
Figma shipped a silent patch specifically to kill figma-use — my open-source tool that did what they wouldn't: an MCP server that creates and modifies designs, JSX export, design linting. Then they scrambled to catch up with their own MCP server.
So I spent the weekend recreating @Figma from scratch.
OpenPencil: reads and writes .fig files, AI chat with full design tools, P2P collaboration with zero servers, ~7 MB app. No account, no subscription.
Three days, one developer, MIT license.
https://t.co/bPtP6JPbq0
In 2023, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky gave a masterclass on why designers & artists should run companies.
He explained:
• How design creates profits
• A/B testing can kill creativity
• Why intuition matters in business
11 lessons from Chesky on building world-class companies:
PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter. Every feature, setting, UI, element should fight to exist.
At Nest, we had one rule:
If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship.
You had to tell us the why.
The reason a real person would care.
That one rule killed dozens of features.
People download apps to solve core human needs (1) finding love, (2) making or saving money, and (3) play. People rarely take time out of their day for anything else.
so far I've found about $90 billion of likely fraudulent payments
just from 0.16% of the providers in the data set released. NY state appears to be the absolute worst
America is the greatest country in the world.
But we need more founders working on real problems.
If you are in the early stages of building something that matters, you have to be in El Segundo.🇺🇸
Apply to the Spring Cohort in bio.
Deadline February 20th.
Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.
There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.