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Provo Utah
Joined February 2009
NY in the fall. 🍁🍂 We just got back from a trip to New York with Nicole’s family and one of our favorite spots was Letchworth State Park. Yes, we went to Niagara and it was awesome, of course. But the state park is a must see in the fall.
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BYU DOES IT! 💥 BYU 28, Notre Dame 21 Cougars beat the fighting Irish!
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Screw adderall. Just get a good nights sleep. Thats the best brain drug there is.
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Niagara Falls
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Watching all the way from NY #goseahawks
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Darnold is playing so scared. Also, can we stop writing up plays shaheed? He is not it. Get the ball to JSN at all costs. Come on Seahawks.
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Trust me. Anyone hating on you is not ahead of you. No one more successful than you is even thinking about you. Anyone hating on you is basically an admission that they are behind you and inferior to you.
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What’s happening on campus? Something to do with homecoming I assume.
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Failure itself isn’t painful. It’s only painful because of how much we judge ourselves for failing. Stop beating yourself up over failure. Learn from it, and change your action, own it.
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This is a new one. The amount of 65+ year old retired millionaires this probably works on is more than likely very high.
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I need to take my phone number out of my Startup Ignition Ventures email footer. And yes, I have left this guys’ name on blast for his rude character and disposition.
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It’s normal to pass your mentors. Doesn’t that mean they did a good job. We want that for every single Startup Bootcamp founder.
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More and more AI users, especially the big consuming brands, big tech, are using open source models rather than the expensive closed models. This trend has flipped so quick!
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The decline needs to be studied. 🧐 HYROX running is not the same as just running. You think, “oh, it’s just 1km, about half a mile” but… it’s eight of them. A few 1K runs sounds simple until every kilometer comes after another station and your running is comprised.
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The MVP is dead! Not because founders shouldn’t build products, but because building one no longer proves much. We just wrapped another Startup Ignition Bootcamp earlier this week, and this became painfully obvious.
🤖 Made with AI
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AI has made the “how” cheaper and faster. I think the startup bottleneck is shifting from execution to judgment: what should we build, for whom, and why will they care? Building is easier. Knowing what deserves to be built is the new edge.
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Advanced smart people always do the basics.
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SLC HYROX recap. Just two hungry savages trying to get better. 😜 We finished in 1:09:03, about 90 seconds off our PR. Not the result we trained for, but me and the wifey are still hungry. Still chasing. Still tryin to get better. Especially together.
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