In 1999: “Don’t meet strangers from the internet.” In 2025: “Get in the car with a stranger from the internet and live in their house.”

The myth: if you haven’t made it by 30, you’re finished. The truth: you still have decades to do your best work.

Westenberg.

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

The Long Apprenticeship

The real productivity hack is accepting that most tasks aren't worth optimizing and just doing them badly

Many such cases (we just haven’t found them yet)

I don't network. I write. A thread 🧵 1/17

The real reason people hate self-checkout isn’t the loss of human contact it’s that you pay the same price but do more work, violating our intuitions about fair exchange. It’s like if restaurants charged full price but you had to bus your own table