my homie told me drink electrolytes and now my name is static shock and i have super powers

Sup everyone.

We’re building a company from zero and sharing everything. I promised 12 weekly updates in a row.

Last week was Week 1 — where we came up with the idea, built a product, and got users and customers (read here).

We’re working on Tidbit, it’s like ChatGPT, but, multiplayer.

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Welcome to Week 2.

We had gotten back from Japan and were severely jet lagged.

We took a train from Chigasaki to Tokyo, then Tokyo to SF direct. The trip was fantastic, and was exactly what we needed.

When we got back to San Francisco — many of our initial days were just kinda spent hallucinating from lack of sleep:

I’m not the type anymore to just pop a Red Bull and power through it.

Maybe that’s a red flag in a founder for some haha. Idk. I did that enough from age 14-24 tbh. I’m still paying back some of those triple all-nighters…

So.

Tidbit.

It was clear after Japan we had something.

The feedback for Tidbit kept coming in from everywhere: little group chats we made with users, DMs coming in daily, long voice notes from users over iMessage.

It got to the point where the things me and Sharif were building next were the exact things people were asking for.

That’s good!

I also just spoke directly to tons of users again this week on a call giving a live demo + seeing what resonated.

A lot of the early week was TONS of little changes users asked for + stuff we wanted as we kept using the product.

(Shoutout Sharif).

But, we didn’t wanna get stuck in 100s of small changes for weeks…

Were we really on to something?

Was Tidbit…”it”?

Who the fk knows.

The way we see Tidbit or any early idea we work on is that the idea does not deserve life. The idea must earn life, slowly. And, it earns life when we get enough pull from the market and/or when we as the creators of it feel excited to keep pushing it forward in new ways from our own internal inspiration.

Every 1-2 weeks, me and Sharif decide if Tidbit lives or dies.

We decided how much to extend it’s lifespan:

• +3 days

• +7 days

• +14 days

• +21 days

Last week we gave Tidbit +14 days because of all the positive signal and we had a lot of new ideas for it.

From there, we needed a new deadline.

What would be the next big push?

I love deadlines with clear targets.

The deadline is one simple sentence around what we’re gonna have done/do by a specific date. To figure out what to work on, I like thinking about this question:

“What would we need to build and learn by Day 14 to feel confident that Tidbit deserves more time?”.

When we went to Japan last week it was pretty simple:

By July 3rd have a product we use nearly everyday, and have 10 paying customers for.

If we got that by end of Japan (which we did), we’d keep working on the idea.

We usually wrote goals in an Excalidraw we shared:

To me it’s less about hitting a numeric goal. I actually don’t really care much for numeric user/revenue goals at this stage. It’s more about what we can learn by moving towards a certain numeric goal. For example, if we ended up getting 2 customers vs 10 but learned enough to feeling confident in continuing the idea — that’s a W.

It’s important to me that the goal is a simple sentence and not a laundry list of tasks.

I hate task lists. I hate Trello boards. I hate Notion. I hate docs.

(At least at this stage).

They just look fake productive.

A laundry list of tasks can be fine, but, to me it must be concentrated into a single sentence that me + the entire team can get behind.

(In this case the “team” is me + Sharif).

Team should be able to walk in, look at the sentence, look at the deadline, maybe a few bullet points, and immediately know what tasks we should focus on.

We decided on a simple one:

On July 24th we do a live stream showing people the product and open it up to all.

The above Apple Note is our entire company plan.

Nothing else matters rn.

July 24 or bust.

The goal gets a lot of stuff out of us.

1. It forces us to productize Tidbit such that anyone can come in, use it, have it actually make sense, set up proper billing, and implement the base list of features we feel a new group of users would enjoy.

2. It forces us to get a story together around what it is. If we’re streaming in front of hundreds of people, we learn how to describe our product + talk about it.

3. It forces us to make noise publicly and get out of our heads.

In essence:

This goal forces us to put out something good.

Else, we’re gonna have to put shit out in front of 100s of people which would suck.

I like goals where a bunch of people are waiting on us to deliver, and we must deliver.

So.

Me + Sharif are going to do a live stream on July 24 at 10:30 AM PT.

We’re going to:

• show what we’ve been working on

• give everyone in the stream access to what we’re building

• talk about our process, learnings (we know a lot of you are building your own things, and want to share what’s been going good/bad)

If you wanna watch, sign up here.

Maybe send to a friend or two that would be curious as well.

It would mean a lot <3.

Finally, last week we had the new HQ too.

It’s pretty sick.

Before Japan, me and Sharif agreed that even if we didn’t end up working together and it was terrible — we’d still want a spot to work from because we were just tired of working from our houses.

And, we didn’t wanna kill our souls at a WeWork.

Around June 14 before flying out to Japan we locked down this massive 3,000 SQ FT space in a wonderful location near Polk St. And we got it at a really good price.

A lot of the last week was spent on move-in stuff from setting up internet, to desks, to a basic kitchen. Initially we set up some plastic tables to work from

You may be wondering why two guys need a 3,000 SQ FT HQ.

Well, the idea is that we build something that can grow into the space rather quickly.

I also believe in the idea that the right space can lead you to the right ideas.

The environment where you work is where you’ll spend nearly all your days.

So, why not engineer it to help you produce great work?

Could we build a massive company from the basement of some random dude’s house in Arizona.

Yes.

We can work literally anywhere.

We can build from a hole in the ground.

But…if we engineer the environment a bit to help us out — why wouldn’t we.

(plus cmon pretty places help me come up with pretty ideas).

We got desks today!

i said arigato to fred again and he started boiling eggs for me great guy

Hello!

Whats up.

This is a long one, if you want to read about the nitty gritty details, read on.

It’s been an extremely productive last few weeks. Main update: me and Sharif are working on Tidbit — it’s like ChatGPT, but, with channels.

We went to Japan for 14-days — no idea what we were gonna build.

Here’s us eating yakitori:

14-days later — we are back in SF and we got paying customers, users, a ton of attention, a product we’re really excited about, and a lot of clarity. Kinda crazy.

Let me rewind a little.

About 6-weeks ago, I wasn’t feeling it. I was just tired of making stuff by myself.

I don’t know how to say it, I just wasn’t having fun. And if I’m not having fun I don’t think I’ll build good things.

I found I got so much energy when I worked with others.

So, I said fk it and attempted to start looking for a co-founder.

I didn’t expect anything to come from it. But, I thought I’d learn something about myself from the process at least. I wrote this note about the type of person I was looking for, and sent it to 15 friends who I felt might know someone I could work with.

Most were surprised. I was a solo founder at my last company.

I was solo founder throughout the last 5-years.

No one really expected me to ever have a co-founder haha.

But, those 5-years were painful. The amount of mental gymnastics I had to pull on myself to stay sane was honestly impressive. Shoutout to past me. Perhaps one day I’ll talk about it more.

Anyways, I thought I could learn from my past.

And one thing that would have been better, was a co-founder.

One person I sent the note to was Sharif.

I was surprised by his reply:

Some lore:

I met Sharif nearly a decade ago now — online on a HackerNews post.

I was 21 and had just finished college in Orlando and was working on training ai models for video games. He was 19 and still in college and had recently launched a distributed GPU product named VectorDash.

I was extremely impressed by it.

He was just a random internet guy with like 100 followers like me.

So, I DM’d him saying it was cool, expecting nothing from it.

Over the next few months we became really good internet buddies.

We’d Discord call all the time and talk about random stuff in the DMs. We’d mostly talk about GPUs, machine learning, and whatever else 20-somethings talk about lol:

Sharif then decides to drop out of college to work on Vectordash.

He decides on SF.

We end up settling + rooming in SF together.

Honestly, looking back we were just kids.

It’s important to say we both had (and still have) an insane amount of motivation and ambition. But, we were also both nobodies from the suburbs of the east coast and had no idea how SF worked. We came to SF with nearly no money, and no real plans.

So, even though we had literally never met irl we just kinda trusted.

Over the next 7-years, I end up building out kanga, then zipschool + buildspace as a solo founder. He ends up building out vectordash, then debuild + lexica as a solo founder.

We both build a lot of things.

We both go through a lot of tough times.

We both stay really good friends.

But, we never worked together. It was always a timing thing. But, also a maturity thing. Back when I was 21, I was an ass. I had a massive ego. I thought I was the best. It was embarrassing. It took a very long time for me to change and learn to work with others.

Today I’m 29, Sharif is 27.

That’s a long time in startup-land. You grow up fast.

So when Sharif hit me up to work together for a few weeks on something I think it just felt right. And in classic Sharif + Farza fashion — we decide to go to Tokyo for 2-weeks to figure out wtf we wanted to make. We decide on a Sunday. We’re on the flight to Japan on Tuesday.

Why?

No reason. We just like Japan.

Also, we both believe in the importance of changing up your environment to get new ideas and thoughts.

We booked the ticket without any plan or idea.

But, we didn’t worry much at all though. Both me and Sharif have the same philosophies when it comes to building stuff — you gotta try stuff to find stuff.

So, we were gonna aggressively try stuff. That was the plan.

Our first spot was in Setagaya City, Tokyo — a quiet suburb:

We also had a supermarket near by, so, we were able to buy a bunch of fresh Japanese food easily. All this was pre-made from the grocery store. We ate so much Yakitori.

Protein all the way.

So, we were able to focus purely on making stuff!

Day 1 at 9AM in Tokyo the plan was just to individually prototype something and then demo it to each other at 3PM. We both talked at length about how a new interface on top of these models could exist, so we both made prototypes based on that convo.

Sharif built a desktop app that looked exactly like ChatGPT, except with Discord-like channels.

I built a Discord bot where you could essentially prompt the model with one other person and actually do real work together, alongside the model. We actually came up with the title to my latest YouTube video together, alongside Claude.

(Initially, it was quite bad. But, the vibe was there. And we were amazed how fun it was to come up with ideas together alongside AI with this simple prototype).

I loved Sharif’s demo of channels.

He loved my demo of a multiplayer interface for these models.

We combined it into a rough product vision by drafting a bunch of one-liners and potential launch tweets. For us, if we could describe the idea in one line or make it sound exciting in a tweet — then we’d be on the same page.

Here are a bunch of our drafts.

From there we worked backwards from the one-liner and got to work.

For the rest of the days, it was the same routine:

Every morning around 9AM we’d spend 30-60 minutes to figure out what we wanted to do by 9PM. Do the thing. And by 9PM hopefully do what we said we’d do.

We both coded a lot. (My code was worse)

And slowly, things started coming together — channels, invites, context management, etc. A majority of the code we wrote for the entire trip was written by Claude Code.

(We paid the price in SF though, turns out, Claude just stacks technical debt lol).

We had many of these at the local Dennys + local cafes.

Japanese Dennys is amazing.

Japan in general was an inspiring place to work and we could just walk outside and get inspired or get a breath of fresh air. We were in a really quiet part of town. We were the only foreigners.

These morning check-ins ended up being extremely important.

Again we had never worked together.

We’d check-in each day around how we were working together + talk through any issues we were having around working together and just figure them out immediately.

We’ve been friends for a while, and neither of us are sensitive to personal feedback, so it ended up being easy.

Main goal of trip became obvious by like Day 5 — build a product that we really loved using. If we went back to SF with a product we used everyday. That’s a massive win. To us, this was the main thing.

We also agree to start posting daily demos immediately. We were gonna be shameless. Didn’t care about polish. And we also agree to get more real people using the product. We were optimizing for learnings. Not a user number, or a graph, or a money number.

The more we learned, the closer we could get to a product we loved.

That same day we shipped a demo to Sharif’s Twitter. It did really well.

More importantly: we had a few of our friends show interest, a really good sign.

Again, at this point we had no idea if this was interesting. So, every message from a person showing interest gave us a good push.

A day later we shipped another demo to my Twitter. We recorded the demo at like midnight and we were hallucinating from jet lag but shipped anyways.

“Demo driven development” was the goal. Forced us to get our thoughts in order. We didn’t wanna put out absolute shit. But, a demo was always cool.

This time we focused more on the channel aspect. And from there momentum just came.

People loved it. Pretty soon, we collectively had about 1000+ DMs.

Founders who wanted to use it with their teams + co-founder to brainstorm. College students who wanted to collab with other students. People who wanted to use it with their wives/family/friends to plan trips in a more collaborative way with AI.

And and a ton of ChatGPT and Claude power-users that simply loved the long-context channel idea because they were tired of re-explaining themselves to Claude.

These were use-cases we never even thought of.

This was amazing, people were coming up with the product for us.

Some people didn’t even follow the rules and just DM’d me “Access”.

But I still gave these folks access cus I’m a nice guy ofc ofc.

By this point, it was clear we had…something.

From there, I booked like 20 user calls and grinded convos with users and Sharif made the product better every 2-hours. We had a really fast loop going.

My main goal of the convos was to get a clearer and clearer idea of why people were excited about it. For me, showing people the product and talking to them essentially prompts my brain in new ways and gives me ideas.

Sometimes I’d just give access to free to someone and closely track the user in Posthog. Sometimes I sent a Stripe link in the DMs before hopping on a call with them.

It was random.

Bunch of experiments. Again, optimizing for learning.

And tbh stuff like this continued until the end of the trip.

I’d make noise, get people in the flow, we’d talk to users, we’d improve product. Me and Sharif were just next to each other 24/7.

And that’s where we’re at now.

It’s extremely obvious that users are excited about the idea + the problems it solves.

It’s clear that people want longer context convos and are tired of reexplaining themselves to Claude/GPT. It’s clear they want to more efficiently collab with their team + the model instead of passing around GPT and Claude links 24/7 in Slack.

This week we’re taking a lot of the feedback and just making the product better. I also have like another 25 user calls so that’s good. Me and Sharif gonna keep the same loop.

So Japan? Massive success.

We’re cooking.

Will me and Sharif keep working together? Yeah. We’ll just keep feeling it out. Keep shipping. Let it all happen as it should. And, see what happens :).

See you next week.

Also — I wrote this essay, Money or Dreams.

And, I shipped this YT video:

Lastly, highlight of trip (apart from jumpstarting a company lol):

woke up and found a beanie in my freezer fml now my head is cold

pasta and sauce

A short story of internet friends.

I wanna tell a short story.

This is Eder. I could not find a better picture of him.

I met Eder when I was 19 — on a Github issue lol

The repo was an open-source Keras implementation of YoloV3 I was trying to get working. I was trying to train my own object detection model to try to build my own self-driving car and was getting destroyed by Tensorflow errors (it was 2015/2016 and there was no APIs haha).

So, I did some digging.

I found this guy named “Eder” on the repo who seemed pretty smart, he was answering a bunch of questions, I found his email, and emailed him screenshots of my errors.

He…replied.

I was amazed. He immediately fixed my issues.

And then he replied again.

And again.

Then we hopped on a call.

And he taught me about neural networks and answered some extremely niche questions on different loss functions.

Eder ended up being my first real mentor.

I would often ask him why he was helping me so much, and I’ll never forget he said “Because someone else did the same for me at one point”.

At the time, Eder was a 27 year-old Ph.D student who recently graduated and went to work at CommaAI in San Francisco with George Hotz.

“Wow. California”, I thought.

It felt so far. I was just a kid in Florida.

The idea of going from Florida to California felt insane. America is huge. And, rarely do people end up permanently leaving their state unless its for a little vacation. I thought I would die in Florida.

San Francisco felt insane.

That was Apple, Google, Silicon Valley, all the big dogs.

I felt so blessed to even talk to this guy on the phone and he inspired me tons.

When I talked to Eder — he felt like the first person I ever talked that liked making stuff. Up to that point in my life, I had just made stuff by myself always.

One day on our call, Eder says “Bro you should come to SF and say hi”.

And guess what.

I did.

I was 19. I didn’t even know what a startup was.
I barely knew where SF was on a map.
I just got into coding like a year before.
I had no idea what I’d do there.

But, I found a way for my school to fund my ticket + hotel as a “research trip” and on that trip I got to meet Eder, see SF for the first time, and got to see what a fancy startup HQ like CommaAI looked like — surprise, surprise it was just a giant 3-floor house where everyone was living, working, and breathing self-driving cars.

I had never seen anything like it.

The only office I ever knew was like the corporate ones back home.

This was insane.

I loved it.

And from there, I knew what I wanted to do.

I wanted to be here.

Doing stuff.

With people like Eder.

After that little trip to Eder I decided I’d be back. And, two-years later I moved from Orlando to SF without telling my parents (my father was not happy).

And, it was awesome.

It’s been a journey since.

I’ll always thank Eder for inspiring me to come out, and showing me what was out there.

I felt really alone and weird in Florida.

But, thanks to the power of the internet — I met someone that I felt similar to for the first time. Turns out, like-minded people really are just a few messages away.

One more thing.

I’ll never forget during one of our first calls I was pummeling him with questions — and he said, “I’ll tell you everything I know. But, you have to promise you’ll pass on the knowledge to someone else one day”.

I promised.

And that spawned an entire career of me writing viral blog posts about how I trained models that got millions of views, even a YT channel where I taught people to code.

A lot of people asked me why I did these things…

Yes, a big reason was because I enjoyed it.

But, a bigger reason?

Because I had made a promise to Eder — that, when someone taught me something, I would teach it to someone else.

I’m glad I made that promise.

It brought me places in these last 10-years I never expected…

It’s a promise I keep to this day.

Here’s me and Eder last week:

NEW YT VIDEO WOOOOOOO.

High chance you already saw it, but, the new YT video is out.

Shot + edited by Bonzo. Really proud of it.

It’s an 8-minute short film about how I’ve been navigating the idea maze.

This was a tough video. For weeks I had no idea what this month’s video would even be about. I wanted to tell the world about by frustrations and anxieties, my highs and lows.…but didn’t know how to word it.

But one morning, it all hit me, and I wrote the script in one 30-minute session.

Compared to the last video, this one was more complex in terms of scenes — the script itself had 20+ different scenes and 3-4 different locations.

To keep things efficient, me and Bonzo planned out all the shots the day before.

Then the next day we shot the video from 10AM - 5PM straight.

Bonzo speed ran the edit in just a day.

From there, Dante helped me with some thumbnails.

Making thumbnails is enough to make any man go crazy and just takes a ton of inspiration + work.

YouTube has the option where it will auto-test test 3 different thumbnails for 14 days.

Here’s the winner from the last video:

And, here’s the thumbnail winning right now for new video.

This one Dante made for me. The “+ ai” is genius.

Okay, thats all see u soon byeeeeeeeee.

P.S: I GOT A NEW POSTER. IT’S AN ORIGINAL:

sunday night thinking about how kiwis got weird hairs on the outside wtf

Hey all, quick and dirty newsletter for you.

Like the old days.

just wanna give you an update on whats up, and new learnings.

I know a lot of people are wondering how I’m navigating starting from zero so maybe this helps someone.

Sorry if typos I’m one shotting this shit.

Last 21 days have been good, but fucking difficult.

I don’t have any rules.

If I wake up and wanna make a VR game I’ll do that. If I wanna keep working on a previous thing I was building (ideally!) I’ll do that.

But I am insanely, stupidly disciplined about two things:

• Show up everyday.

• Make something, show one person.

Most days I got no clue what I’m working on.

I’m not that guy that has like 1000 ideas on an Apple Note.

I start at a blank page most days.

Showing up at the laptop everyday, not knowing what I’m gonna do is already hard. And on top of that, knowing that by the end of each day I gotta make something, and show at least one person — yea, that makes it harder.

Still I’ll always trust in my process.

And so far so good.

Week 1 sucked.

Day 1 was so full of anxiety.

I literally thought everything I did was stupid for the first 5 hours.

Around hour 8 I started working on a stupid text editor for myself.

Questioning my existence as I did it.

Still. I showed up. And I had to follow my two rules.

Made the first version in 4-hours.

And texted a shitty Xcode build ZIP to my boy Julian:

By the end of Week 1 I thought this editor was kinda cool.

Still was embarrassed at how simple, small, and niche it was.

But, just decided I don’t give a fuck what people say let’s ship it. I asked Josh if he could cook up a little video in two hours for it and he was down:

I chose to do a video not because I wanted to to go viral, or because I wanted it to look cool. It didn’t make sense. It’s a fucking text editor lol.

There was no rationale.

I just did it because it seemed fun.

And 95% because I like working with Josh.

And I missed making stuff with him.

And, bam, shipped it.

I woulda been happy with 10 downloads.

Ended up getting 1.8M views, thousands of downloads, and a now an amazing community of die-hard Freewrite fans. The feedback has been truly heart warming.

Along with that, shipped that YT video with Aiden I mentioned last week. I hit him up like a day before:

Literally made end-to-end in 1-day. Script, shooting, editing, thumbnail, everything.

0 expectations.

If I got even 100 views I woulda been happy.

I just wanted to get off 0 on YT.

Everyone thinks I got this master plan for my “personal brand” or something and sure I got goals — but… I wanted to make the video because it seemed fun.

And I felt like it’d be fun to work with Aiden on something again.

Anyways, it also did super well. Almost half a 500,000 views across platform (X/LN/YT)

I was very, very happy with the 25,000 views on YT. 75% of YT views coming from algo which I was super happy with.

Bam + >999% haha.

Tryna make 1 video a month for YT.

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So, last week was officially “Week 3” for me

I started building a voice agent to help me talk through my day. It’s based on my learnings from people using Freewrite. Folks really seemed to love the AI feature I added last minute.

(Btw, adding your users to a single GC is always a good idea. I always learn so much from just seeing how ppl talk about the product. Freewrite GC now has 1k ppl and it gives me an insane amount of new ideas).

So, I thought — huh, what if that was one entire product.

I thought it was a stupid fucking idea.

But I didn’t have any other ideas that day on Tuesday lol.

And I had to ship SOMETHING.

I learned iOS/Expo, made it in like 3-hours, made the initial UI, added real-time voice with elevenlabs, and conversation w/ Gemini Flash, and had a simple demo of a grandpa giving advice.

i literally ripped off this blog post and changed the background 😂.

And I just walked around the office with my phone with this shit demo showing like 20 people.

I was surprised at how some ppl spoke to it.

Was so interesting.

It greatly inspired me.

And for the next 2 days I’d come in, make it just a little bit better and show like 10-20 people the update.

That’s how my brain gets its best ideas.

When I show someone something, and they start telling me their thoughts, and then that triggers a new idea in my head, and all of a sudden it’s that feeling I know super well — like you’re on to something.

And my main goal these last 3-weeks has just been to flex that muscle as much as possible.

So yea. Now I have like a ton of actually really cool ideas for this voice agent I thought was initially stupid.

Life is weird.

Just gotta ship.

Just gotta show people.

Two learnings:

One — I should build with other people even if it’s only like for 30m and even if I have barely any idea what I’m building.

Working with Josh/Aiden on a video, with Dante on a YT thumbnail, with Stavan on some tweet copy, with Jack on random voice agent implementation — all these little things gave me so much energy. And made me feel less alone. And made my ideas better. You can work with your friends in small ways and have fun, it doesn’t have to be all-in or nothing.

Two — Building a new mental, and spending time doing so was worth it.

In the last 8-months I’ve purposely built up a brand new mental. I have updated internal rules, new internal motivations to guide me, and a lot of new strategies to deal with my mind.

(This is all something I’m now realizing I have told literally no one about).

I never wanted my mental to fail me again.

Many of you reading this likely have never met me. But, I’m emotional as hell.

I smile easily. I laugh easily. I cry easily. I get easily anxious.

I wanted to continue to feel all the emotions. Emotions are what make me feel alive. They lead me to do my best work.

It’s hard to be creative without being deeply in touch with your emotions.

But, as I felt these emotions in my work — I no longer wanted them to change my state of mind. This was an important goal of mine these last 8-mo.

Anyways, all this zen bullshit sounds good on paper.

But to me, these first 3-weeks were where I could put my new mental to the test.

And I was extremely happy with the result.

Sure, I had down days. Sure I had anxious days. But, a majority of my days were happy as hell. I rarely felt like my emotions were controlling me. And, if I was down, I knew how to get myself to rebound. It was beautiful.

I couldn’t even remember the last time I had such good days building stuff.

Felt like a real personal breakthrough.

Anyways, just gotta maintain it as things get bigger and better. always the tough part/fun part >:)

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Anyways, this was a really quick letter guys.

Nothing special. Just wanted to write this.

So. Now. Week 4? Shitttttt, let’s see lol. I have some ideas.

I got no rules right now and am purposely being loose as hell but I also know I have a really good level of base focus and my brain will keep trying to build on top of what I do each day vs blank slate each day (ex. like this voice agent being directly inspired by freewrite user learnings).

But if I gotta start from a blank slate each day — so be it.

I’ll keep doing it.

Anyways.

Took a day off. Went 3-hours north. Stayed in a cabin.

Saw the most beautiful wildflowers, mountains, and rivers. It was amazing.

(At one point a bird landed next to me a bro i teared up it was beautiful).

btw raised two small checks from my friends — shoutout furqan/hubert at founders inc + ryan at weekend fund.

kept it extremely low key.

See you!

just wiped my counter top with orange scented citric acid and now im fiending for orange juice wtf

I made my first YouTube video in over a decade.

Yo fam.

There’s a high chance you already saw this if you follow me else where…

But, I made my first YouTube video in over a decade.

It covers what I’m up to, and how I’m thinking about what’s next.

It was a really quick decision.

• I wrote the script in 30-minutes.

• Shot + edited it in 5-hours the next day at 7AM (all Aiden, ty king).

• Spent 3-hours on thumbnails (shoutout Dante)

Then — shipped it.

All together, ~8-hours.

And, now its sitting at around a quarter million views across platform.

That’s insane.

And, I had so much fucking fun making it. Especially working with my friends on it obsessing over tiny things.

If you already watched it — would mean so much if you dropped a comment or even better, sent the link to a friend or family member who may enjoy it.

And, if you haven’t watch it…enjoy <3

Also, kinda cool: this video is on the exact same YT channel I started when I was 13.

From 2010.

Same account, same everything (but, I unlisted my old videos for now lol).

Even the freaking channel banner I made when I was 14 with the big “farzatv” themed after the YT logo (something I thought was extremely clever) is the same one I uploaded…in 2010 lol. It hasn’t changed.

Kinda poetic.

Kinda cool :).

Excited to do stuff on here and bring it back.

I have a big time love for YouTube and the medium of long-form storytelling. My goal is by EOY to make YT my main platform I post on. I’ll still post on X, IG, etc — but, find YT 100X more fun!

Okay, that’s all I got see y’all.