The Intro
Ten bands...
Fitty bands...
Hunnid bands...
Fuck it man...
This song takes me back to 2015, cruising down I-476 near Philadelphia on my way home from yet another winning poker session. Life was good. I was twenty-four years old, rolling with my windows down, music blaring, and twenty grand in cash in a backpack on the passenger seat. I had just founded my first startup in esports. Between the business and poker and my blind confidence, you couldn't tell me I wasn't about to be twenty-five sitting on twenty-five mil.
I don't recall the exact lyrics after "Fuck it man..." but it didn't matter. I always replaced them with my own while rapping along.
I don't flaunt this shit in public man...
Nope. Not ya boy. I've always been private and introverted. I rarely post to social media. I never had more than a couple hundred friends on Facebook, and permanently deleted the account (college pictures and memories be damned!) years before it became popular to do so. I don't scroll through Instagram highlights nor do I care to share what I'm doing. I've always felt the people who need me know how and where to find me.
So what the hell am I doing with this blog? Well, truth is I don't expect anyone to ever read this.
While building my first startup I decided I want to write a book someday sharing my true experiences as a founder and the many lessons I've learned along the way. There was one glaring issue. I sucked at writing in school, I suck at writing now, and it's difficult to envision a future where I don't continue to suck at writing. I once wrote a college research paper on the industrial production and transportation of mangoes from the first person perspective of a Mango! It was literally the only time I ever received an A grade on a paper spanning the entirety of my English career. Thank the good Lord I went into STEM.
Someone once compared building a startup to hopping out of an airplane and assembling the parachute on the way down. It's insane yet also insanely exhilarating. I figure there's only one way to get better as a writer. Of all things the younger me would never have expected, here I am. Writing. In English. Striving towards proper-ish grammer.
I appreciate you stumbling onto my blog and for making it this far into the intro post. Remember to smash that like button!
I hope you enjoy our journey towards the ground! Ya boy just jumped off the plane.
Fitty bands...
Hunnid bands...
Fuck it man...
This song takes me back to 2015, cruising down I-476 near Philadelphia on my way home from yet another winning poker session. Life was good. I was twenty-four years old, rolling with my windows down, music blaring, and twenty grand in cash in a backpack on the passenger seat. I had just founded my first startup in esports. Between the business and poker and my blind confidence, you couldn't tell me I wasn't about to be twenty-five sitting on twenty-five mil.
I don't recall the exact lyrics after "Fuck it man..." but it didn't matter. I always replaced them with my own while rapping along.
I don't flaunt this shit in public man...
Nope. Not ya boy. I've always been private and introverted. I rarely post to social media. I never had more than a couple hundred friends on Facebook, and permanently deleted the account (college pictures and memories be damned!) years before it became popular to do so. I don't scroll through Instagram highlights nor do I care to share what I'm doing. I've always felt the people who need me know how and where to find me.
So what the hell am I doing with this blog? Well, truth is I don't expect anyone to ever read this.
While building my first startup I decided I want to write a book someday sharing my true experiences as a founder and the many lessons I've learned along the way. There was one glaring issue. I sucked at writing in school, I suck at writing now, and it's difficult to envision a future where I don't continue to suck at writing. I once wrote a college research paper on the industrial production and transportation of mangoes from the first person perspective of a Mango! It was literally the only time I ever received an A grade on a paper spanning the entirety of my English career. Thank the good Lord I went into STEM.
Someone once compared building a startup to hopping out of an airplane and assembling the parachute on the way down. It's insane yet also insanely exhilarating. I figure there's only one way to get better as a writer. Of all things the younger me would never have expected, here I am. Writing. In English. Striving towards proper-ish grammer.
I appreciate you stumbling onto my blog and for making it this far into the intro post. Remember to smash that like button!
I hope you enjoy our journey towards the ground! Ya boy just jumped off the plane.
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