When I spoke out against the Gaza genocide, a bunch of midwit VCs ganged up on me both in public and tried to hurt me in private too.
Many of those who stood by me were also VCs. Just the better ones. Both morally, and in return profile.
The best way to avoid sociopaths is to have them self select out of your life by standing for your beliefs.
The theatre of the privileged: can’t cook, can’t clean, can’t manage kids, can’t drive, can’t walk the dog… and now apparently can’t carry shopping bags either.
The availability of cheap labor in India has created an entire class of adults without basic life skills.
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
Madeira, Manchester, Madrid, Turin, and Manchester again. Wretched in Red. Restored to this great gallery of the game. A walking work of art. Vintage beyond valuation, beyond forgery or imitation.