Substrate

“The first year of the rest of my life.”

“Being married is not particularly different than being engaged; I wake up every morning and go to bed every evening next to my best friend and favorite person in the world.”

“While the first part of my career was me playing a sport on a team and then playing that sport as more of a free agent, I’m now in a period where I’m less interested in any specific sport. Instead, I’m excited to create games I want to play and enlist people I want to play with.”

“Does this feel like something I’m uniquely capable of?”

“Justin Duke phrases this question as "what am I willing to say no to in order to say yes to this?" I love this phrasing and will definitely borrow it in the future.”

“but I need to play the game that’s on the field, not the one that is in my head.”

“With an empty calendar, what am I drawn to? How do I want to spend my time?”

“Every time I open the app, it creates a daily note that’s titled YYYY.MM.DD.HH so that I never have to think about “where to take notes” or “what to call this.” I just open Obsidian and start writing.”

“It’s not clear why I didn’t think of this myself. Personal networking has been a huge force in my life, so I guess I thought of networking as a personal act, but there’s no reason you wouldn’t be able to hire someone else to network for you. And still, this is not something I’d put together before—that if there’s someone who seems unreachable, there might just be a fixed dollar amount, a few emails, and an NDA standing in your way.”

“This makes me appreciate one of the major drawbacks of consumer regulations: they apply “must be good at following complicated rules” as a selection pressure against enterprises.”