Eoin Lynch

software dev + How Many Zeros? + cycle/run + read as much as possible. From 🇮🇪 Working on

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

I love this idea from Rick Rubin:

Focus only on making the best thing you can make. Excellence for its own sake.

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

never seen a beer be more deserved in my life

[Tropical Value @tropicalvalue]

https://t.co/3ac5cFgWaB

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

- @multiplanet1

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

@Spotify 🗑️

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: New Spotify feature will allow premium users to create AI remixes of participating artists’ songs.

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

“Until death, all defeat is psychological."

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

Used to think this guy was a genius. Increasingly think he’s a clown.

[Naval @naval]

If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential.”

— Ray Dalio

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

Shopify is so so underrated

[Yuvraj Kewate @uvkewate]

The Shopify ecosystem is one of the most underrated communities in tech.

Founders help each other. Merchants give real feedback. Shopify itself ships fast.

If you're building SaaS and haven't looked at the Shopify ecosystem, you're missing one of the best markets in software.

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

the coolest things is that my bloody valentine are irish!

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

it’s a bit ridiculous to say “the time you spend scrolling could be spent building a business/writing a novel/reading the classics”. sometimes that’s true but usually scrolling happens as a result of cognitive fatigue, and the idea that you can just “swap in” another intellectually demanding task means you’re treating your body/mind as a machine

a better approach would be “the time you spend scrolling could be spent taking a stroll/napping/staring out the window/having a meandering conversation with a friend”. that’s both more palatable and probably what we’re actually craving when we reach for our phone: a brief break from the demands of life, and a time to let our mind relax

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

guy gave me a box of clif bars on the house today - its going to be a good weekend

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

fuck it is actually such a thrill when you've 2x beers in you on a Friday night, the computer is doing just exactly what you want, loud psychedelic rock blares, its all coming together and the guy you call to say I owe you one says not at all fair play

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

@Rainmaker1973 foxes...

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

😳

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

@readswithravi Principles by Ray Dalio

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

If @pmarca recommends the book just fucking buy it!!

[Eoin Lynch @aliasofeoin]

Wow… Clown is a real one.

[Tetragrammaton @tetranow]

"The art I make outside is a problem because that's what I was gonna do.

I wanted to get a PhD and tenure at some fancy college.

I was going to wear some weird glasses. I was going to know more about Salvador Dali and Matisse and Edvard Munch than anyone on the planet.

Impressionistic painting was going to be my expertise.

If the History Channel needed an expert, they were going to call me.

I was going to know everything. And I was already on my way.

The only thing keeping me is I got some sort of speech thing. I think I just didn't pay attention in all the classes I needed to.

So if you're going to be into impressionistic painting, you better be able to pronounce French painters' names and cathedrals and stuff. I just, that was going to be a lot of work, but I wanted, you know, I wanted to date college girls and have fun, drink beer, and just be that real liberal, crazy professor.

So Slipknot destroys everything in my path, you know." - @MShawnCrahan of @slipknot

[Take Testosterone @maxyourtest]

Take the risk or lose the chance