New article of mine published @palladiummag

Είμαι σε διαδικτυακό meeting όπου όλοι μιλάνε με ξύλινες business ορολογίες, όπως B2B, end to end, startup spirit, bandwidth και εγώ στο Περιστέρι κοιτάζω από το παράθυρο την ταμπέλα "Σουβλάκια ο Μάκης".

startups should recruit more like sports teams, not everyone can afford the best talent but anyone can scout raw talent with the right qualities and develop them into a players

This is why you can't get upset when you receive a rejection email. Literally no one is actually reading your resume, it's just keyword matching set up by an HR girlie who has no idea what she's hiring for. 99% of your applications go unread, filtered out by ATS.

the path of least resistance to fix the coming crisis is to allow pre-retirement americans to accept a social security buyout in exchange for a lump sum deposited into their trump accounts (530As) with which they can buy spcx/oai/ant/etc at some discount. very simple

Dating apps are the perfect example of abundance led unhappiness Pretty convinced that humans are the happiest where they are in pursuit of a goal, whether that is idealistic (relationships) or materialistic (money, career) However, when you force abundance upon people, like dating apps do, it actually leads to a lot of unhappy outcomes Turns out that human brains are inherently not built to deal with abundance. It is not the normal state of our evolutionary minds So whenever an industry forces abundance upon society, it is likely to have some very negative external effects along the way Believe this is also why many are worried about impact of AI on society. This new technology allows intelligence to scale and become abundant like never before. Similar to dating apps, I suspect that the abundance of intelligence is actually likely to make humans far less intelligent in the long run We are already seeing this in schools and corporate jobs where people are becoming overly reliant on their AI tools. The next decade will be a battle between outsourcing your thinking to AI vs enhancing your thinking with AI. You must pick wisely.

I wrote a story about how basically every man I know in my station of life — millennial, in a long term relationship, in possession of a fake email job — does all the cooking in their relationship, which is something I have a lot of theories about.

Random thought: VCs have literally one job when evaluating a deal: say yes or no. Yet somehow, an entire industry has normalized a third option: ghosting. Founders are built to be delusional. Until they hear no, they’ll keep believing it’s a maybe. It’s 2026. You have no excuse anymore. You can plug Granola into Instinct and automate your rejections. If someone spent an hour pitching you their life’s work, the least you can do is send them a fucking no.

you could probably outperform 90% of VCs just by being less conservative and moving faster most funds are so locked into their thesis that they'll pass on an incredible deal simply because it doesn't fit the stage or sector they originally raised money for even if they have a chance to invest a significant amount and even when they do find a great opportunity, most VCs are incredibly slow by the time they finish their meetings, internal discussions, and due diligence, the round is already closed the best deals don't wait around. if you want to get into exceptional companies, you need to make decisions fast and there's another problem with being too conservative the market is changing so quickly that a thesis that made perfect sense 2 years ago might be completely irrelevant today even the idea that staying a small fund is always a great strategy is starting to change that's why I think flexibility and speed are two of the biggest advantages a VC can have of course, it's much easier said than done you need a really deep understanding of the market to know when to stick to your thesis, when to rethink it, and when an opportunity is worth moving fast for

I’ve been thinking about crazy Gen Z salary expectations. This was big a little while ago. In case you missed it — here’s what different generations consider a “successful income”: