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[Spencer Shulem @Spshulem]

Me and Fable 5 for the 3 days I had her

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

De’Aaron Fox with the Spurs season on the line

[NBA on Real @NBAonReal]

De'Aaron Fox next season 😭

[“paula” @paularambles]

yes rincon hill sucks i hate having AC and an in-unit washer & dryer and a doorman to take care of my packages and being walking distance from a dozen friends and the office and the water and the saturday ferry building farmers market and a grocery store with a breakfast hot bar

[Eric Hovagim @EricHovagim]

nightclub music last night in Shanghai, China went crazy

[rushil @rushil]

@FetishBets Bro please stop, I have Spurs futures

[rushil @rushil]

@saikatc L

[Xiao Ma @infoxiao]

the longest distance between friends is not sf to nyc, it is sf to palo alto

[rushil @rushil]

@itskasturiii incredibly overrated too

[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.

[Kyle “BoJack” Hall @bigbj153]

1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
2. Adolf Hitler
3. Alex Caruso
4. Osama Bin Laden
5. Isaiah Hartenstein

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[rushil @rushil]

@rronak_ @MichaelElabd @QuantumArjun Congrats on the launch! Excited to be working with yall 🚀

[rushil @rushil]

@DrewVento Just cut it off

[rahul @0interestrates]

this was the original ch*ndian meetup

[alex ✚ ✚ @aeriiihearts]

we gotta nuke san jose immediately

[rushil @rushil]

@MindofShaii Man this is so foul but I can’t stop laughing 😂😂

[Donny V @wavybaeb]

This is crazy

[Avi Patel @avipat_]

General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled.

(skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context)

I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of.

This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.