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Before being transformed into film or being written down, epics like the *Odyssey* were handed down and reshaped in song for centuries, just like most other ancient knowledge.

A few months back, we went to Costa Rica for my nephew André's Bar Mitzvah.

I want to get back into sharing what I read online.

I have spent the last couple of months building a proof of concept for a new company.

The generational story we're often told is simple: Boomers got houses and pensions, Millennials got the short end of the stick with student debt and a sequence of economic crises, and Gen Z got an even worse deal, but at least they got TikTok.

I built a new reader for Euclid's *Elements* while studying for the Catherine Project class _"Ancient Greek Writings on Knowledge and Mathematics

This post was written as part of the Catherine Project class "Ancient Greek Writings on Knowledge and Mathematics."

To celebrate Hannah's birthday, we took a trip to Death Valley.

Earlier this year, I traveled to NYC for work and Hannah tagged along.

This post was written as part of the Catherine Project class "Ancient Greek Writings on Knowledge and Mathematics."

This post was written as part of the Catherine Project class "Ancient Greek Writings on Knowledge and Mathematics."

An interesting side effect of working with AI agents for personal projects is they force you into professional workflows, even for solo and throwaway projects.

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This post was written as part of the Catherine Project class "Ancient Greek Writings on Knowledge and Mathematics."

Last month, when my family came to visit us in San Francisco, my sister-in-law commented that people here are obsessed with changing the world.

After starting out in Johannesburg and Kruger, Hannah and I flew over to Cape Town to continue our honeymoon.

Years ago, I heard the late David Graeber speak about his Bullshit Jobs theory at a San Francisco bookstore.

Last year, almost a full year after our wedding, Hannah and I took a trip to South Africa to celebrate our honeymoon.

Two questions I've been asking myself as I brainstorm my next moves are what truths will still hold 5 or 10 years down the line, and where will language models change cost structures enough to create new opportunities.

I joined AngelList to get the clock started again.

It does not take greed, genius, or exploitation for a society to become unequal; randomness can be enough.

These days, after a long hiatus, I am attending a couple of networking events per week.

New information changes our understanding of the past.

A cleaned-up backlog post stitched together from abandoned link dumps living on local branches.

I've been pretty bad about sharing photos recently, particularly when half a roll ends up sitting in the camera for a month or four more than expected.

I've had the same conversation for years with both long-time San Franciscans and new arrivals.

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Every breakout startup works hard to get the right investors on its cap table.

I've been to New Orleans twice.

Between 2022 and 2023 I explored many startup ideas, seriously considering 8 partnerships before founding Inscope.

Between 2022 and 2023 I explored many startup ideas, seriously considering 8 partnerships before founding Inscope.

Happy new year.

Following our Vienna visit, we headed to Budapest.

Earlier this year, together with my brothers and their families, we booked a trip to Vienna and followed it up with a few days in Budapest.

At a team dinner a few weeks ago, our CTO asked: *how will the world change in the next five years in ways that aren't obvious?

Another round of book reviews, arriving fashionably late, but earlier than last year.

Over coffee a few days ago, a friend (YC founder, obviously building agents) told me most people in the space were thinking about it all wrong.

I had a bunch of odds and ends from old rolls of film waiting.

Good tools give users agency; the best tools take it away and prevent mistakes.

A few months ago, a founder in my network reached out for advice as he geared up to raise his seed round.

Over the last few weeks, I've been watching _The Good Place_.

Earlier this year, Hannah and I went to Mexico City for a quick trip.

Since they are trained on human writing, LLMs are fundamentally downstream of existing human ideas.

Nobody wants to use your LLM-powered service.

In December, I went to NYC for work.

I read Augustine's _Confessions_ as part of a Catherine Project class.

Still trying to catch up on my lack of writing this year, here's the long awaited list of the books I read in 2023.

This past Saturday, San Francisco had one of its beloved literary events.

In October, I got to visit Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a work offsite with our engineering team.

A collection of trips with friends and family in the late summer of 2024.