Jon Mason 📖⛳️

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[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@TortoiseCosta Washington is a fine biography, but the man himself was not all that interesting outside of his circumstances so it’s a tad boring. A true military man. Very wooden. Go figure he was the only founding father that didn’t leave a stack of writings behind on life, politics, etc.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@AnthonyNutter @TonyGrossi @EagleSticks Very nice to play a course that rewards good shots vs. long shots. Being out of position hitting into some of those greens is a death sentence lol. Kept me mentally engaged the whole round vs. just going driver, wedge for 4 hours.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@TonyGrossi Played here yesterday! Par’d this whole. The way the trees frame it down the left side is really beautiful. Whole course is in great shape outside of some reno work on the back.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

GRAPE STATUS 🍇 = OPEN 🍾

[No Laying Up @NoLayingUp]

Wyndham Clark feasting on Shinnecock as the wind dies down is an absolute apocalypse for tonight's live show.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@Solzelic @ryanbrewer You’re conflating insurance with indemnity + premium load.

“You cannot insure an experiment against failing” is true only in the trivial sense that nobody sells that one specific product. But the risk is absolutely financed and pooled, which is what insurance is.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

Hang it in the rafters.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

I get that business insurance is similar Nobel level type of pursuit as ground breaking physics and the Manhattan project. Hopefully the blast radius will be contained.

I don’t think the disagreement is whether hard problems require intensity.

The disagreement is whether intensity has to become a permanent operating model, and whether working seven days a week is the thing that compounds.

My argument is that for most startups, the real compounding advantage is not raw hours. It is clearer thinking, better judgment, learning, and a team that can sustain high-quality work for a long time. You can always spend a lot of time working, but the PMF might never arrive.

There are moments where extraordinary effort is necessary. Launches, incidents, existential deadlines, customer commitments. Those moments matter, and great teams rise to them.

But if the company requires heroics every day of the eek, that usually points to a system problem. It means the operating model depends on burning reserve capacity instead of building it. Company that is constantly on fire is company that is not operating well.

Whenever you put something out there, people will argue and people can argue the way I run Linear. The reason I comment on these things to offer some counter point.

There is a growing cliché in startup culture where founders and startups feel the need to perform intensity publicly. How hard they work, how little they sleep, how many tokens they spend, how busy they are, how much personal sacrifice they make.

You almost never see this from the most successful companies or people. Even if they work that way, they usually don’t make it the story, because they have more important things to talk about, like the product, the customers, the insight, the strategy, the quality of the work.

That’s my issue with the narrative and why I think startups shouldn't blindly follow it. Not that is bad to work hard but grindmaxxing narrative can become the greater goal and become counterproductive. The performative intensity becomes the thing, and loosing sight of what actually matters.

Lets check back in 7 years.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@OpenAI @OpenAIDevs can someone please help me remove my phone number from an old company account I no longer have access to? I want to sign up for Codex but my # is associated. No way around it!

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@Solzelic @ryanbrewer You’re so wrong it’s hard to know where to start. Actuarial math does not require rare events. Life ins pays out 100% of the time!

“Until one doesn’t.” There’s a model where the ones that don’t crash pay for the ones that do. Pretty sure VC isn’t a “structural impossibility” lol

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

The Tunnel by William H Gass @Dalkey_Archive

[Magills @magills_]

lmao

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@sflorimm Channel partnerships. Getting others who have already achieved network effect to sell your product for you is the greatest unlock there is. Wether it's a referral or embedded, just find a way to get on the shelf of others who have the audience already built.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

Started a new company in February and officially crossed $1M ARR today. Just two full-time dads bootstrapping it.

I've golfed and read less than I'd have liked this year, but it really feels like this could be the one that changes my family's trajectory for good.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@Sabrescokegate I tried this and the rover in this same color. Rover won out by a wide margin. Something just a bit off on the look and feel of the Trouper, and it’s a weird one to carry for 18.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@Jacob_Naviaux @bss123788 @PedroRossiSilv1 @tj28283 Jesus always preached to his flock that we should be seeking to maximize profits on transactions dealing with basic human necessities like shelter. It’s kind of hard to argue that retrading in this fashion isn’t explicitly Christlike.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

Not a big audiobook guy, but with a 2mo. old baby, it’s been easier to listen than to read lately.

The dialogue that Gaddis writes is arguably better in this format. Carpenter’s Gothic read aloud is so fantastic that I’m not sure if I’ll ever read the text.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@_motherslug Inspirational. Most people just daydream about it. Takes more than most understand to grind your way out like that, you should be extremely proud.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@FranziaMom It’s never not been this

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@Whooperjr88 @spurawaycol @TaylorMadeGolf

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@Chx44Q @Zacbunchanumbrs @keaganwernicke @justalexoki You must consider that God’s idea of what’s fair and just is infinitely more complex and ultimately unknowable when compared to our own.

And from a logical standpoint, no, lacking in fairness does not equate to evil, by either human or godly standards.

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

@ManyDowntowns @CaryKelly11 Imagine being a hater of a delicious morsel such as the Texas Twinkie!

[Jon Mason 📖⛳️ @brickfrontier]

Worlds are colliding!

[Golf Channel @GolfChannel]

Brandel Chamblee explains Scottie Scheffler's greatness mentality through the lens of writer David Foster Wallace's analysis of tennis legend Roger Federer.

📺 Golf Central Pregame | @chambleebrandel