memo
we are making moves rn, 13.1 mi running + 10 mi afterwards in the morning felt so cathartic physical exercise flushes all bullshit out your system delta force operator x kobe obsessive mindset. fundamentals are different for me than others.
- radical catharsis, ruthlessly strategic building today + preparation for upcoming battles
todo
- run/bike
- palantir - hybrid build strategy, use LLMs + existing workflow for decomm… (2 hrs)
- time blocking 30 min sprints
- further BMAD + continue looking at agentic workflows
workspace
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To clarify, it’s not Richard - he is my former cofounder who ended up starting another company which got funded by YCombinator. The current contenders are Sahitya, a classmate from Penn - who I’m interviewing for Endeavor AI - a seed/series A company - along with Harvey AI (interviewed on Friday) series E and Palantir (in new york)
I haven’t asked about their work trial starting dates yet.
I want to move consciously fast, but not recklessly, fomo’ed into bad decisions. That’s already enough information for me tonight - the critical decision rests on these work trial start dates which I hope to get tomorrow.
I realize the boundaries I am comfortable pushing, some of these do overlap with Richard and his suggestions on moving forward. Where I feel, comfortable, pressing, and calling Richard today and getting an update, for my own beliefs, by compressing the timeline from 2 weeks to 1 week, start looking at flights to get the pieces together - similar when two models with different mechanisms converge a similar outcome, that signal.
My plan is to follow up with the companies. I’ve been talking with, and get a gauge on how soon and informed them I have other offers to
Rest and a clear state of mind is the priority right now. I shouldn’t keep developing or coding this app. find the highest ROI decisions, they don’t have to be writing code or technical, these decisions tend to have 10 X or 100 X outcomes.