Jason Bach

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[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

Here's the 2nd part of the series on my dad's story from escaping Vietnam. It's incredible the amount of sacrifice a person can make, the huge risks that they take, and the hard work required to find and build a new life. I'm proud of my dad.

https://t.co/ZTaGsTHfss

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

1/ Not enough people talk about the hardships that the Vietnamese people went through during the Vietnam war. We mostly hear about the impact it had on Americans and it's not the full picture. I wanted to share my dad's story on his journey to America.

https://t.co/DOr4x7Gjpi

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Slow down. Urgency kills your vibe. It forces you to operate from your lower self. From fear, anxiety, shame, insecurity, doubt. But when you slow down, you become more intentional. More present. You operate from a state of knowing. From this solid inner certainty. An unshakable confidence that people fear to question.

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@aporia9n Bringing kids to these places? What's the take there

[Holographic Pear @Pear_with_legs]

Physical attractiveness is largely how healthy you are.

An underappreciated corollary is that mental attractiveness is also largely just how healthy you are. Playfulness, joy, happiness, responsivity, non-reactivity, are basically just read outs of how well regulated your nervous system is.

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

Imagine if we had Claude for when we spent countless hours renaming our songs in iTunes ripped from Kazaa and Limewire

[ً @artfuIchaos]

there is nothing more attractive and more powerful than someone remembering who they are again. seeing them swim in their true essence after an extended time stuck at shore. seeing then return to themselves of old, but dealing with waves differently now.

[Bret Taylor @btaylor]

I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

one common trait I find in high achieving individuals is urgency. it looks almost like impatience until you understand it is closer to reverence, a deep refusal to waste the one thing they can’t buy more of. the alarm goes and they rise. the message is answered while it is still warm. the small task is done before it can find a shelf to hide on. they commit and move in a single motion. an idea sparks and they chase it that day, before the world talks them out of it. they run at their own lives like something is at stake, because they have decided something is.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@michaeljburry I feel seen

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@amandaorson people will always seek connection / community; finding a tribe and establishing themselves in it

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@technooptimist1 @chamath do and learn. all day baby

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@brianluidog This tracks. Interested in the blog post

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@jeff_weinstein Bologna - Da Cesari, Osteria al 15

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@CadeCottrell @Brian15778212 have you seen his highlight reel

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@CadeCottrell @Brian15778212 Not sure. $39M AAV means Lakers wouldn't have the cap space to sign one of their other FA gets. The extra ~$6.5M was probably worth the 2 picks for Rob

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@JustEsBaraheni @FraterStatera Kawhi after all he’s been through is still netting 2 1sts at 35. Jrue Holiday too. You should reconsider your mental model on prime years and effectiveness

[signüll @signulll]

in tech we love to talk about moats. we act like tech or raw data is the moat. it’s not.

tech will likely become the ultimate commodity. maybe even the last moat, especially with ai.

the real moats in tech are the things we underestimated: emotional continuity, relationship depth, ambient trust.

memory is just the first. more will follow. ones we haven’t even named yet. turns out, you likely don’t win this era by knowing everything. you win by knowing someone.

i wrote a quick post on why memory might be the deepest moat.

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@ShamsCharania Jail blazers

[Jason Bach @thejasonbach]

@thedulab Ohhh the feels. Motivation I needed to hear. Another banger