Ian Ha

Exploring new things 🌎 ✈️🤖.

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

I think that is close to sackable from Tuchel. A coach appointed at great expense for his tactical acumen and "ability to get over the line" needlessly forces England miles from it.

All that money... for that?

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

The fact Tuchel can't admit the error of his ways proves England will never win anything with this mentality.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Thomas Tuchel: “Today we played one of our best games. Maybe our best game”.

“We have no regrets”.

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@TheAthleticFC

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@TheAthleticFC Just rank top 32 teams after group games by points, goal difference, goals scored, and FIFA coefficient. One giant final table for knockout qualification. That way you can grow the tournament incrementally, and do away with the third place table. Here's the 2026 bracket:

[Tim Vickery @Tim_Vickery]

Still on the Paraguay game.
Holland v Portugal 20 years ago was much, much worse - real violence and genuine thuggery.
Don't recall all this fuss

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@PaddyKeoghAF Agreed. Context also matters here: Spurs more trigger happy to over spend and avoid the trauma of last season, compared to other clubs. Also seems to indicate a real faith in De Zerbi.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn’t make it productive or worthwhile.

Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you’re still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, or 20 years ago shouldn’t stop you from making good decisions now.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons. Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.

Going into a project or job without defining when worthwhile becomes wasteful is like going into a casino without a cap on what you will gamble: dangerous and foolish.

“But, you don’t understand my situation. It’s complicated!” But is it really? Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon. The problem and the solution are usually obvious and simple. It’s not that you don’t know what to do. Of course you do. You are just terrified that you might end up worse off than you are now.

I’ll tell you right now: If you’re at this point, you won’t be worse off. Revisit fear-setting and cut the cord.

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@vimota https://t.co/QleK3rXtUo

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@cjgustafson @poyark Gotta say your podcast Mostly Growth is criminally underrated. Thanks for all the content and insights. As someone with an engineering background, the GTM and finance content is useful for me.

Thanks!

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Declan Rice taking a group photo with Arsenal fans outside The Emirates at 5am ❤️ 📸

(via @al_juste)

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

COYG!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

I know, I know ... tax reform is politically difficult at the best of times. But, hear me out.

Here's why this matters:

>>> Canada has a productivity crisis. Real GDP per capita has been flat for a decade, and the OECD projects we'll rank LAST among advanced economies in growth through 2060.

>>> Every fix we talk about... from permitting, talent, infrastructure, to trade... sits downstream of one question: "is Canada a country where it's worth the risk to invest, build, and stay?"

>>> Increasingly, the answer is no. Canada taxes founders harder than the US. Canada taxes companies for reinvesting earnings. US investors now routinely require Canadian startups to reincorporate in the US to access QSBS treatment. Canada's best companies are leaving before they start.

We're proposing two structural fixes, both of which are regularly mentioned in reports on how to fix productivity. These aren't novel ideas, but they are necessary:

1. Match the US on capital gains. Raise the lifetime exemption from $1.27M to $15M per business. Let founders defer tax when they reinvest in new Canadian companies. In parallel, reform the Alternative Minimum Tax regime.

2. Adopt Estonia's corporate tax model. Zero tax on reinvested earnings. Tax only when profits are extracted. Estonia has ranked #1 on the Tax Foundation's International Tax Competitiveness Index for 12 straight years. There is something to be learned from this.

Neither of these changes involve new spending. Both can be revenue-neutral.

Both will materially change the risk/reward calculation founders and investors make for the benefit of Canada's long-term productivity.

[Colossus @colossusmag]

This is the story of Hyperliquid, the most profitable startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore.

Last year, its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken a dollar of venture capital, and is beginning to change how century-old markets work.

Its founder, Jeffrey Yan (@chameleon_jeff), had never taken a physics class when he picked up a textbook at 16. Two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad. In 2019, he started trading with $10,000 from a living room in Puerto Rico—working off a television because he didn't own a monitor.

Within 3 years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms.

Then he shut it down. Yan was rich and free, but he had spent years inside crypto, watching it betray itself. Bitcoin's central premise was decentralization. Yet the biggest exchanges were centralized. Crypto kept reintroducing the dependence on trust it was built to eliminate. He set out to create what should have existed.

Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange on top, and anyone can build on it. Yan's vision is to house all of finance. In 3 years, it has done over $4 trillion in volume. And in the past few months, it has begun to outgrow crypto.

Markets for oil, silver, and the S&P 500 now trade on Hyperliquid around the clock, weekends included, and are growing roughly 40% week on week. When the US and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, Hyperliquid was the venue traders turned to.

Hyperliquid's success has cost Yan his freedom. He works out of a secret office in Singapore and cannot travel without two bodyguards. Even the team's housekeeper doesn't know what they do.

In January, @domcooke spent a week at their office. Read his profile on Yan and @HyperliquidX below.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

Before Sunrise is unwatchable because it's so good. It's such a beautiful encapsulation of young iPhoneless love, shot on analog film, a nineties time machine of a mysterious Europe that no longer exists, you feel like you are dying as you watch it.

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@OpenAI Any plans to ship equivalent commands like /rewind for context management in Codex?

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@lossybrain @sama I was able to do this by tunneling my local MCP and adding it via developer mode in chatgpt settings. Hacky, but worked, and not the most secure.

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

@ruslandanilin @vimota Do you guys recommend an eval suite to test for regressions before a model switch?

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

When someone as smart as Jensen Huang openly admits that AGI is "already here", you can't help but question the level of agency CEOs actually have.

[Ian Ha @ianpha]

This might be why self-hosted / local models will become more of a thing over time. Nobody wants to be left having to play hunger games on compute forever.

https://t.co/0vqW4iJCXD