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This post intentionally mirrors Paul Graham s essay with the same title. I finally launched my YC for Politics this summer and the first class was amazing! Excited to share what went so well and thrilled to plan future classes! The first Positive Politics Accelerator class has just finished. We were surprised with how well it Continue reading "What I Did This Summer" The post What I Did This…
Before Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and even AT T, there was America. America s seven principal founders — Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay — did much more than frame and write the U.S. Constitution. They created a new country and led it through its rough infancy to the foundation of the richest, most powerful nation in Continue reading "Politicians Are The Original…
Notes: Neil: Welcome to another episode of Quote Notes! This is a unique primary resource that was likely never intended to be public — Michael Jackson s handwritten notes inside the empty pages of the notebook he received at Tony Robbins Unleash The Power Within seminar. I love studying the greats study the greats, and this is Continue reading "Michael Jackson s Notes from Tony Robbins Unleash…
Idea: Celebrate the history of Black Bottom by investing in the next generation of Detroit leaders. Problem: Current middle and high schoolers don t see startups, politics, etc. as real career paths. Solution: Create $10K-100K scholarship programs for rising star students in Metro Detroit. Partners: Leverage top centers to give students access to the best faculty Continue reading "The Black Bottom…
Idea: An accelerator to help ambitious optimists get into activism and politics. MVP: A working retreat this summer in Washington DC. ~10 ambitious optimists living together for one week, each sprinting toward a specific mission in activism and/or politics. Success for our first class would mean each fellow creates one bill, pilot, campaign, or report Continue reading "The Positive Politics…
There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. — Paul Graham, The Two Kinds of Moderate, December 2019 What is the opposite of partisan politics? Where everything isn t defined by Red vs. Blue, or labeled D, R, or I? I call it lowercase politics. A mix of small l liberal, small Continue reading "Lowercase Politics" The post Lowercase Politics appeared first on…
What Modern Protesters Can Learn From The American Revolution If you watch Ken Burns The American Revolution documentary, it s shocking how okay most early American colonists were with being ruled by the British. Sure, there were protests in colonial America, but most colonists were willing to remain British subjects as long as they got representation Continue reading "How Revolutions Really…
“Those who have a Why to live, can bear with almost any How .” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the existential vacuum in his famous book Man s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, and in this book he Continue reading "You re Not Burnt Out. You re Existentially Starving." The…
In this Note, I focus on Ken Burns' PBS documentary series titled "The American Revolution". Burns' six-part, twelve-hour series was released on November 16, 2025. My goal is to review one episode per week until the end this year. I anticipate this will take me 60+ hours of focused work. Well worth it to fully absorb the key ideas and events of the American Revolution! The post Best Quotes from…
You know that feeling when you see someone else succeed in a way you want to succeed? I call it the four stages of jealousy: One of my favorite mental models is to Explore Your Emotions . Most people instinctively avoid their emotions, especially negative ones. This mental model teaches you to stop and dig into Continue reading "The Joy and Pain of Writing a Book" The post The Joy and Pain of…