My dad said once you’re in your late twenties/early 30s you really start to see a separation in people’s lives visibly Which more than likely adds to folks anxiety and loneliness because they can visibly compare themselves to their age peers

Prof G says that spending all your time in the house will damage your romantic and professional prospects, I definitely see how it can on both ends The only time you leave your house shouldn’t be when you go on a trip

My view is that tech folks/coastal white collar professionals tend to always assume that their usage patterns are the same as the rest of the U.S

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1661865933873508352

This reminds me of when tech folks said since their friend groups aren’t drinking that alcohol consumption was declining in a material way across the U.S

The top 25 universities that produce VC backed founders, Stanford, Cal, Harvard, MIT & Penn are the top 5 The difference in numbers is big once you get out the top 5

People talk about people “ghosting” but would you really want people to sit there and tell you why they don’t vibe with you? Especially if you’re not dating or exclusive, someone you texted for a few weeks doesn’t owe you that

They get to know you as a person after the initial attraction wears off

https://twitter.com/qglezzz/status/1585763236724367360

People are entitled to change their mind when they are presented with new information aka who you are

In consumer, it's best to build things that align or enhance natural human behavior. Trying to make humans do new things is why a lot of consumer startups end up not working out Natural is the keyword here, drill down into any successful consumer product and you will find traces of natural human inclination in it

A lot of people feel like they don’t have enough time, Hidden Brain episode how to take control of your time open.spotify.com/episode/5h4dnk… When it comes to why people don’t feel like they have enough time, is because they don’t tend have guardrails around how they really choose to spend it

If you can, getting management experience before founding a company is a lot more helpful than is talked about 1. Being a CEO at any level of startup is much more operational in focus than it is product in focus, but everyone focuses on product

Issa Rae talking to Guy Raz about how she built her production company HOORAE open.spotify.com/episode/397cTg… She started writing scripts when she was 13

Dropping out of college to found a startup sounds like a vibe, until your startup fails and you need a job and have no job experience or academic experience to help you get a job So then you’re just left to keep founding startup after startup after startup throughout your 20s hoping that something will hit

Nobody saw this coming theinformation.com/articles/the-m… Dropping by 80%-97% like y’all thought virtual land was going to be the next big thing?

Raising Canes spent $100,000 on lottery tickets then turned around a few days later and spent another $100,000 when their first batch of tickets didn't win. upworthy.com/raising-canes-… Raising Canes has 50K employees if they used the $200K to give money to each employee that would be $4.00. So hold your horses

Kevin Warren who is the current Big Ten Commissioner is the first Black commissioner of any Power 5 sports conference ever, and was also the first Black COO of an NFL team..was the highest ranking Black exec on the biz side in the NFL si.com/college/2022/0…

The Big Ten is evaluating the worthiness of adding Cal, Oregon, Stanford and Washington from the Pac-12 to expand its conference to at least 20 teams, sources told CBS Sports this week. cbssports.com/college-footba… The idea of adding Cal, Oregon, Stanford and Washington would be to establish a Western bulkhead that would be academically appealing enough for Big Ten presidents to approve further expansion.

Laura Wasser, mentioning how women becoming breadwinners more, still recoil when they have to pay their spouse spousal support While this has been common and expected when the man is the breadwinner it’s not something women have had to do much it’s relatively new

As managing partner at her firm—which was established by her father, Dennis Wasser, also a divorce lawyer—she is currently overseeing about a hundred cases newyorker.com/culture/the-ne… Interesting interview from the divorce attorney who has worked with Brittney Spears, Johnny Depp and others

Tovala foods is going to be the next big tech company out of Chicago, a win for that ecosystem While the pandemic definitely helped with adoption this isn’t a company that can only win in a pandemic

Would be cool to see more content produced about the maintenance cost of certain life decisions, like having kids, partnering long term, owning a home etc Lots of information about how to get to a certain life decision, less about the maintenance cost of them

That was especially true for the children of immigrants, who were nearly twice as likely to become rich as the children of people born in the United States. nytimes.com/interactive/20… nytimes.com/interactive/20… Immigrants are good at doing something difficult: leaving behind relatives, friends and the familiarity of home in search of prosperity.

Great post on retention benchmarks that one of the founder friends sent me lennysnewsletter.com/p/what-is-good… Super interesting retention numbers at 6 months for these social companies, Facebook and Instagram are SO sticky