Zack Onisko

M&A at Enduring Ventures. Former CEO at Dribbble and Creative Market.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

@secondfret Happy birthday!

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

wife: what are you looking at on your phone at dinner

me: just some shit

wife: what kind of shit

me: well we got that rolling tv so i wanted to see if those rolling nurse workstations are purchasable, which they are and also most hospital equipment like vitals monitors so then i was curious like if you set up a home medical wing, what’s the top 10 substances given to patients, but not by volume but like by occurence, and then its injectable saline by like a large margin, and im like can you buy that and it turns out you can’t, totally prescription but not for like great reasons other than people might fuck themselves up administering it, but like how is it made and who makes it and it turns out one company has like 60% market share (of like 3 domestically) and 20% global market share and that’s crazy their proprietary processes and ip are like national security, fabric of society and civilization type shit how crazy is that?

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I've never seen an exceptional product that was designed by committee.

Too many cooks in the kitchen make products that are complicated and diluted. Every compromise feels small in the meeting, and together they water down the whole thing!

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

Say what now?

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic believes AI models may be only months away from being capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter by using commercial devices like Android smart TVs.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

”Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
—Isaac Asimov

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

@gethunch_io Onboarding feedback. I don’t want to copy and paste. Cut friction. Make all this one seamless step.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

I’ve used them all and can settle the debate. Instinct is by far the most capable. It’s actually shocking how quickly Muse gives up on tasks. Trial over. Instinct won.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

@gethunch_io Good response. I’ll check it out.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

@gethunch_io Why are you better? Can you give me examples?

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Stop lying to yourself.

You know exactly what you need to do.

Over the years, hundreds of people have DM'd me asking for advice. I've met with more than a hundred of them. It's an honor.

Here’s what I’ve observed:

Most people don't need advice. They need courage.

Deep down, they already know what they need to do… they just don’t want to do it.

Humans are world-class excuse generators.

We’re adept at listing out all the reasons we can’t do the hard thing. We read self-help books, attend masterminds, listen to podcasts, go to therapy. There’s nothing wrong with any of those things, except…

They can become a sneaky form of avoidance. It feels like progress, but it’s not.

Don’t read a book about doing the thing. DO the thing. Then you’ll know exactly what you need help with.

The people you admire most have a common trait:

Bias toward action.

They do when others don’t.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

Finding your friends on @letterboxd is way harder than it should be. I'm using Muse to find my friends on X and Instagram on Letterboxd. It's manually searching every handle I follow. If you're on Letterboxd, reply with your username and save it the trouble.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

@iamjakestream I did have to set my credit card down to alert them that I was ready to leave, but hands down, in my opinion, this is the better way to dine. I often forget to slow down and enjoy the wine…. and oxygen.

[Javi @rameerez]

this video is becoming my entire personality now that it’s so undeniably over

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

The American mind cannot comprehend a waiter who lets you sit for three hours and never once asks "are we still working on that." Dinner in Europe isn't a transaction. It's a residency.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

Such a great book!

[Dee Walker 📚 @deewalkerbooks]

Here’s an interesting fact.

Morgan Housel threw out a third of The Psychology of Money while writing it.

He started with traditional long chapters (4k–6k words). It felt wrong, almost rambling, full of fluff. So he scrapped it and rewrote the book as 20 short, story-driven chapters in the style he’d already mastered online.

Every major U.S. publisher rejected it. A small U.K. house took it with a 5,000-copy first print run.

It went on to sell millions.

[Eddie Lobanovskiy @lobanovskiy]

I’ve been messing with ai since day one, but when OpenClaw came out about a year ago, I lost my sleep for a while just digging into agents, mcps, different models, memory, markdown setups, all of it. That’s when I really saw where this was heading.

Since then the tools have gotten insanely better, and I use this stuff every day now. Basically taking 20+ years of design experience and plugging it all into much stronger workflows, trying to get our clients better results, faster, without wasting time or money.

And honestly, right now feels like one of the best times ever to be building. The tools are finally catching up to the ideas... the key is not to get attached to things but keep moving forward. I notice some folks get a bit emotional when I mention that tools and workflows that we all used and loved yesterday are a bit of a waste of time today.

I’ll probably share more of what I’m learning and building. And if you wanna make something cool together, hit me up.

[Nick Preszler @NickPreszler]

Look at him, thats my Qual.

Your what?

My Qualitative! My vibe specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.

I'll give you a hint, his name is Jayden. He won a local poetry competition in bushwick! Yeah I'm sure of the vibe.

[signüll @signulll]

if elon had stayed latched to openai, he’d literally own the entire stack of the post industrial economy:

- cognition (openai)
- locomotion (tesla)
- exploration (spacex)
- connection (starlink)
- communication (x)

that’s not a fucking portfolio, that’s the goddamn civilizational operating system.

[Sunnyvale @SunnyvaleSBay]

I work in the AI industry. I burn about 1.5 billion tokens a week. Between personal and business I have 8 AI subscriptions. And I still think I am falling behind the accelerating rate of change. The last three months alone have been a quantum jump in capabilities. Nobody outside the industry understands how insane this is going to be. Like a whole other industrial revolution, but compressed into 10 years. Nobody is ready for the societal implications. It's going to be a 10.0 earthquake plus an F5 hurricane all at once, globally.

[Zack Onisko @zack415]

This is wild.

[DHH @dhh]

How many pencils, how many humans, how many hours would it have taken to recreate the Adobe suite by hand?