the science of becoming more effective is a mysterious one.

brute force doesn’t help here. more work, hours, and inputs won’t necessarily translate into being more effective.

i started really thinking about this concept after reading sj discuss it when he first met jony ive while reviewing the work jony had been prototyping for years, sj said: “fck, you’ve not been very effective, have you?"

the work was great, but jony hadn’t been effective in getting it through the org politics and out to the masses.

founder of duolingo is crazy impressive

• sells first startup for a few million
• reinvests back into himself and authors recaptcha, sells to google
• sprouts idea for duolingo in 2009
• private beta in 2011, launch 2012
• 3 mill users by 2013
• 200 million users by 2017 didn’t turn on rev until 2016
• $1 million in 2016
• $13 million in 2017
• $36 million in 2018
• $250.77 million in 2021
• 2021 went public still had 100m+ in the bank account

🔥🔥🚀🚀

i can’t think of any generation defining startup that was founded after 2014 facebook for example went from $0 to a $104 billion market cap in seven years (2005 and then went pub in 2012) i cant think of any startup growing at that speed founded after 2014

for those of you who don’t know i recovered from covid19 in april

today my heart rate hung out at 140 bpm for hours and now i’m in the ER for possible blood clots

when i tell you this happened out of nowhere, i mean it

& once again ring was my 1st indicator something was up so the good news is d-dimer shows no clots

bad news is

“this might be how your body fights fevers from now on”

(i barely have a fever, it’s only 100)

so.. resting 140 bpm spikes & 12 ms hrv whenever i get an infection.. could be my new post covid normal

sigh, still in er

i hestitated putting this out there because i am a person who desperately seeks validation from others (unfortunately)

my biggest fear was a whole bunch of people would be like “you don’t even know if you have it!”

and i just don’t have the spirit to deal with that right now but just in case there are people out there that will gain something from me sharing my experience, i felt a need to share my what’s been happening to me over the last 15 days

so here it goes

15 days in the life of a (presumed) covid 19 positive patient

left is your oura ring healthy
right is your oura ring covid19 day 12 broke the curve