Grant Hale

Building joy | @BCG | @UofIllinois | @fika_n_friends

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

@maxmarchione What treadmill do you use?

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

I've started to think of wandering as a core skill.

Reading often gets pushed down on my list because it's more meandering and less outcome-certain.

But just like any interesting neighborhood, there's often that restaurant or interaction that makes it all worthwhile

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

I’ve never paid attention to what day the mail was delivered before, and @WorksInProgMag did not disappoint.

A new field being invented in real time? ✅

Such a cool reminder that everything around us was made by others and that we can make things too.

Shoutout @s8mb, @tamarawinter, @patrickc, @stripepress, and everyone else involved - keep doing what you’re doing :)

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

@aidanmurphy S’more risk, s’more 🙏🦃

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

Yeeessuhhh

[Neel ☀️ @Szplugz]

Busy doing it.

[Rohan Hirani @rohanhirani_]

TradFi friend and former bitcoin critic sent me this voice memo. Now he’s explaining why the unique protocol itself gives Bitcoin intrinsic value.

Total 180.

The world is waking up.

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

I just finished When Breath Becomes Air (and besides for crying more than I have in a long time), have been asking myself, "what if I were going to die before this song / page / conversation / minute ended?"

Each experience has a fractal level of detail if we let ourselves wallow in it.

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

I tried to literally describe a beautiful breeze blowing through my room and was trapped by the adjectives "cool", "crisp", and "bright". Objective language couldn't describe a subjective experience.

I ended up writing this instead -
"The cool breeze spilled over the windowsill, showing the room's tepid air to the door; not as a bouncer would, but instead with a distinctly maternal instinct. With its gentle, insistent caress, it encouraged what had been too long put off."

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

I'm working through two different projects right now - one is rehabbing from a serious injury, and the other is making a perfect cup of coffee. Both remind me of opening a jar.

In both cases, trying to really grip the lid and twist wasn't getting the job done, but gentle, prolonged pressure has done wonders. It turns out (surprise) injuries take time and consistency to heal, and time dilates pleasantly when you pay careful attention to how something tastes.

Next time you need to open a lid, try applying gentle force for a longer period of time, I know for a fact that lid will pop.

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

@CapitalCasper @adansomariba 🤩

[Neel ☀️ @Szplugz]

This is why @grant__hale and I are building Fika & Friends in Chicago with a bunch of other kind, curious and high agency people😉

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

@luke_clancy1 Hahaha love it, spent 5 months on this if you’re looking for a shovel

[aidan murphy @aidanmurphy]

Hey! I'm Aidan

- Scaled my lawn care biz to 300k/yr in sales (while paying my way thru college)
- Just graduated from uiuc
- Now selling the biz & moving to sf at the end of the month to find my next thing and meet awesome people

If you're in sf, hmu! Let's meet/hang

[Bret Victor @worrydream]

★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium. https://t.co/uAg40FbcFM

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

@Szplugz Check https://t.co/UrXlGpetxu !

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

@Szplugz @WHOOP @WHOOP you need this guy !

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

There's a swedish word "skapa," which means "bringing something into existence."

[Grant Hale @grant__hale]

Is there a better way to describe working on a personal project than "working" on it?

A friend asked me what I was doing today, and after I answered, she was like, "what 🤷?"