Sam Omokan

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want to start a startup, don't learn "entrepreneurship." Learn how to build things. The hard part of startups is not "entrepreneurship" but product: to know what to build, and to be able to build it.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

@mbrown_co @p_millerd 😂

[Harvey @harvey]

Would Harvey Specter use Harvey?

@GabrielMacht had to ask.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

a lot of the time we want to avoid hardship. but hardship is where resilience is forged and character is developed.

[George Heaton @geoheaton]

Your character is more-so revealed when things aren’t going your way.

[George Heaton @geoheaton]

Your character is more-so revealed when things aren’t going your way.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

Kindness is love in work clothes.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

We all sound like claude

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

So much hunger, so much desire.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

@herrcuules Godspeed sir 🫡

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

How to lose $600 million:

Step 1: Get a message from Cursor CEO in 2022
Step 2: Don't see it
Step 3: Don't respond
Step 4: Don't help with content
Step 5: Don't negotiate for 1% advisory shares
Step 6: Cursor sells for $60 billion
Step 7: You sir are $600 million poorer

All jokes aside, massive congrats to @mntruell and the @cursor_ai team!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

"There are two numbers that determine how big a startup gets, and thus how rich its founders become: the growth rate and how long it continues. You get the first by making something users like so much they tell their friends. You get the second by being in a big market." @paulg

[litquidity @litcapital]

This is how I imagine Anthropic’s Mythos model with zero guardrails

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

i've been getting more spam from bots on X recently 👀

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

@paulg which autobiographies would you recommend?

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

what a time to be alive

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

@thesamparr 👀

[Rishit Patel @imrishit98]

@thesamparr I might be stupid, but not a liar!!! Here are the receipts, gentleman

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

i keep seeing loads of these weird ads … feels like a psy-op

[Sam Omokan @samomokan]

@glvtx @BradWilcoxIFS thank you brother