Jerry Sam

Sharing my thoughts and wisdom as I navigate through life’s journey | Learning, growing, and reflecting along the way.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

My philisophy:

"Look good naked."
- probably Plato

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

@GregTomaselli Good articulation separates the value from the mechanism.

Most of us fall into the trap of explaining the process. The mechanism tells you how it works; the value tells you why it matters.

The value proposition explains why the customer should even care.

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I think one of the most important parts of being human is being truly honest with yourself.

If you’re feeling something, acknowledge it. “Acknowledge” is probably a better word than “admit,” because your emotions aren’t something you should have to confess. They’re simply part of your experience.
Stop trying to reason yourself out of what you’re genuinely feeling. If you’re sad, acknowledge that you’re sad. If you’re anxious, recognise that you’re anxious. Resisting or denying an emotion doesn’t make it disappear; it usually just buries it.
That doesn’t mean you have to act on every emotion or let it define you. It simply means allowing yourself to experience it honestly before deciding what to do with it.
You don’t have to tell everyone how you feel. Emotional honesty with yourself is different from emotional disclosure to others.

I think many of us become so accustomed to hiding our feelings from the people around us that, over time, we begin hiding them from ourselves as well. We convince ourselves that we’re “fine” when we aren’t. Eventually, we lose touch with what’s actually going on inside us.

Real growth begins when we stop fighting our inner experience and start meeting it with honesty. Only then can we choose our response with clarity, rather than react from denial.

Your emotions are data, not directives.

[Naval @naval]

When software was expensive - thin, horizontal, best-of-breed software stacks extracted rents across every business.

Now that software is cheap - value moves to vertically integrated businesses that deliver opinionated end-to-end experiences.

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Pro move: Audit your CLAUDE.md and convert the most important rules into hooks wherever possible.

The model can’t negotiate with or forget a well-written hook.

What’s one rule you wish Claude would never ignore?

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Use a hook when ignoring the rule is costly.

Examples in Claude Code:
•Auto-lint or format after every Write/Edit
• Block risky commands
• Enforce critical standards before any action

If breaking it would hurt → hook it.

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

Marc Andreessen highlights why the people who work for Elon Musk echo the exact same sentiment as those who worked for Steve Jobs. Even after difficult interactions or a sudden departure, they inevitably report that they did the best work of their entire lives because they were pushed to their absolute limits.

What drives this intense environment is a demand for truth-seeking at all costs. People who criticize Elon often miss this fundamental trait. He genuinely wants to know the ground truth and has zero tolerance for anything else. When confronting bad news, he is absolutely ruthless and relentless in making sure he understands exactly what is actually going on.

This level of radical transparency is shockingly rare in the business world. The typical startup founder operates on forced optimism, constantly putting on a brave face, telling everyone to have faith, and promising that everything will be great just to keep talent from leaving.

Elon completely flips that standard script. He operates with pure urgency by simply telling the unfiltered truth, even when that truth is that the company will go bankrupt and die if they fail. In almost any other corporate environment, that level of blunt, existential dread would cause the talent pool to immediately bleed out.

But for the teams working under him, that brutal honesty acts as the ultimate catalyst. It strips away the corporate fluff and forces them to rise to the occasion, leaving them with the undeniable realization that, much like the engineers who built the first iPhone, they just completed the greatest work of their careers.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The goal of @SpaceX is expansion of consciousness to the stars so that we may understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the Universe

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

Envy no man.

For what ever you see, a price was paid.

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@GregTomaselli @MarioNawfal Those with a vision flourish,
those without a vision perish.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

You are not in a world.
The world is working through you.

You do not possess a life.
Life is working through you.

You are not in a universe.
You are the universe.
It's moving through you.

There is no past, present, and future.
The present moment is you.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

The more you try find yourself,
the more you get lost.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike — it doesn’t discriminate between good or evil.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

@GregTomaselli Take no credit, take no blame.
Just focus on chief aim.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

Completed my @Workout_DAO challenge of 100 pushups, 100 squats & 100 sit ups…again.

Added 100 calories of ski-erg to make it a little spicy 🌶️.

Broke it up into 5 sets of 20 of each.

This is the actual speed I did the workout in 😉.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

Here’s @Workout_DAO challenge 4/15:
Complete 100 pushups, 100 squats and sit ups today and tomorrow.

Got the wifey, @AiTingWong to join me ❤️.

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Will be sharing my @Workout_DAO completed challenges here 😊

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Started the @Workout_DAO Accountability Challenge.

It’s been an absolute blast interacting with the community and engaging in friendly banter.

Completed 3/15 challenges so far.

[Jerry Sam @iamjerrysam]

3/15
Climb 30 flights of stairs