Oliver Gilan

When your friends host events you should take whimsical, candid photos.

I recently bought a pair of $30 binoculars from Amazon and it’s become one of my favorite ourchases in recent memory.

Awe is an underrated emotion.

I recently completed a bulk where I gained 10lbs of lean muscle over the course of the past 3 months.

What it is# Thymosin alpha 1 (often abbreviated Tα1 or TA-1) is a small peptide (28 amino acids) naturally produced in the thymus that’s best described as an immune modulator: it can influence how immune cells communicate and respond, including effects on…

I still cannot eat dairy and gluten and my immune system still feels like this lingering problem to be wary of.

Previously I presented a heuristic for prioritizing what to work on as a leader at a startup based on how effectively it derisks the grand vision.

I found this band recently and have been listening to them non-stop.

Relationships are like gardens.

There’s a palpable desperation in the air right now.

Every company in the world is thinking about how to add AI to their existing products and new products built from scratch.

The F-35 is one of the most advanced man-made machines ever created.

Matthew Parkhurst & I founded Antimetal in April of 2022 to bring my vision around “the Cloud” to life.

There are distinct memories in life, like birthdays or breakups, but then there are moments that are far more real.

Overview: Summer of 2019 I became violently ill and only recovered after cutting out all FODMAPs for a significant portion of time.

In the time it takes you to read this post at least one person will have died waiting for a kidney transplant.

A year ago I wrote down my goals that I hoped to accomplish during 2023 and now is the right time to take stock on what happened this year, how I did against those stated goals, and what I’m looking forward to in this coming year.

Each year 224 collegiate football players are drafted into the NFL across seven rounds.

Today I woke up at 3:30am, hopped in an Uber, and headed to JFK where I flew to my new home in San Francisco.

I used to look upon the short, dark winter days of New York with dismay.

I was interested in business before I was interested in tech but when I fell in love with computers and taught myself how to code in high school it seemed like an obvious marriage between my skillset and interests.

On the morning of August 2019, a few weeks before my 21st birthday and my Junior year of college, I experienced the most intense pain in my stomach I’ve ever felt.

Feynman had this concept of 12 important questions and every new idea or thought he came across throughout his life he’d try to contextualize within one of those questions.

I often hear founders and investors talking about the need to think short and long---to zoom in on the daily details and to zoom out on the big picture strategy---as key skills for a founder.

I have a joke that goes something along the lines of “my character flaw is genuinely believing I could do [insert highly improbable feat]”.

It’s not hard to be better than average at just about anything.

A couple weeks ago every flight in the US was grounded due to the meltdown of the FAA’s NOTAM system in the latest large-scale example of the software crisis.

I read this postmortem today from a YC company that pivoted from their first idea as a no-code reverse-ETL tool.

New Year’s resolutions are mostly corny and not a very good way to achieve the sorts of lifestyle changes that people hope to achieve with them but it is important to set goals and then take time to reflect on your progress towards said goals at a regular…

I’m pretty proud of the fact that last year around October I pulled out of my crypto positions and largely switched my stance regarding the technology.

I used to multitask a lot.

Whenever a group of people work together there exists between them a flow of information which can ultimately determine how successful that group is at accomplishing a specific mission.

Fast, a one-click checkout payments startup was founded in March 2019.

I recently read a tweet expressing exasperation with the standard 8-9 hour workday and how little time it leaves for life outside of work.

In this post I’ll walk you through creating the personal blog you’re currently reading using Hugo.