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Jul 26, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Fuck you. “Video games are a waste of time.”

You sound like every other person who fed me that bullshit growing up.

Gaming has had an enormous impact on so many lives. Here’s how it changed mine, I encourage you to share yours.
I used to play video games every day as a means of escaping an abusive household.

Maybe I could’ve helped my parents sell drugs or join in on the fights. I chose to play video games instead.

Was that a waste of time?
I was bullied in school. I would go home and play with my friends online, share stories, I cherish many of our memories as my best ones.

I am still good friends with many of the people I played games with years ago. We still game together.

Was that a waste of time?
Games like Minecraft sparked my interest in learning to code.

I learned to make mods, servers, websites, and games of my own.

I made accompanying videos, websites, and learned editing, design, animation, and learned so many new skills.

Was that a waste of time?
Video games led me down a path of entrepreneurship where I built an entire SaaS analytics platform for Minecraft servers.

Which I sold - and finally escaped Missouri and went to California to pursue my new life.

Was that a waste of time?
I met my now WIFE on Twitch - a platform for watching people play games.

What a waste of time it was watching people play video games, huh? 🙄
Furthermore, any time where you’re enjoying playing a game, is not a waste of time.

In contrast to what I’m saying, I could have achieved nothing from the above and still would argue that just playing video games were some of my best times.

Its not a waste of time.

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May 14, 2021
It’s been nearly a year since the forced work-from-home experiment, and unfortunately not much has changed.

The current technology most rely on - Zoom, Google Meets, Slack - all seem stuck. If this is the destiny of remote work, many people would rather pass…
To them, it means piling on Zoom fatigue. Feeling isolated from coworkers. Actually, feeling isolated in general.

Some people freak out when they think remote work is the future.

Like, really freak out. They express completely valid concerns, like this guy below:
“I work remotely, and no amount of Zoom can ever substitute for real face to face interaction. I’m struggling to keep it together mentally with hours of total isolation for months on end. If we're never going back to the office, that's a horrible future as far as I’m concerned.”
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Dec 4, 2020
What I learned from raising my first seed round.

This isn’t a how-to guide, that may come later. This is just a story and observations from my own experience.

See, I didn’t know what I was doing at all...
We had a built a prototype, people seemed to like it. Investors seemed to like it. Not because I showed it to them, I wouldn’t know how to do that.

But I got a lot of inbound asking about the product and found myself stumbling into meetings with people with no real goal.
We decided it was time to raise and I had to figure out how to do that.

I’m not from SF. I’m from small town Missouri. I didn’t have connections.

But I did spend a lot of time making internet friends. It’s what I’ve done my whole life. In particular friends in @genzmafia
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Jul 20, 2020
It’s finally here 😱🎉

it’s been months in the making, and I thank all of you for your support (you know who you are) 🙏

👑 First of its kind spatial conversations

✨Bring back serendipity to your remote team

👉 branch.gg
One of the biggest things lost in remote work is chance meetings. On zoom you have no "peripheral vision." You can’t overhear.

🤔 How do you replicate serendipity and the fun of working together in the same office? Image
Your whole team works beside you in a spatial environment.

Where your voice (and video) move as you move, confined only by the walls around you.

👋 Which means you can instantly and spontaneously say hi to a co-worker as you pass them in the hall.
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Jun 24, 2020
Shouldn’t work be fun? Why can’t work feel like playing games with the boys?

I’ve had so many great times just chatting with my team and hanging out. And if you can’t do the same, then there’s something seriously wrong with your company culture.
I just don’t understand the hype of “async”

We invented phones because writing letters sucked.

Its so much more human and serendipitous to talk to eachother.
As a teenager I would just hang out in skype calls all day with my friends as we played games, or just shared screens and did stuff together.

Work today with my team feels identical to what I enjoyed doing most of my time growing up.
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