Jihan Kapur

@aryanshanker_ @pmarca thanks Aryan :)

@jdoesstartups @pmarca Love these small snippets from you Jihan! Keep it up :)

A lot of people I look up to say that introspection is a waste of time. We should just be moving forward. I don’t know what to believe. On one hand, I hear their stories. Marc Andreessen says just keep moving. No need to think about the past. (@pmarca) Naval Ravikant thinks introspection falls back on the self (@naval) It’s hard to try and fall into a belief of one or another. Marcus Aurelius was an emperor with a journal. Socrates was a man with a great legacy - and had something like a journal. I find myself constantly daydreaming. It feels like a waste of time. But at what range do we allow ourselves to send a probe down our brain? And at what point do we go onto the next thing - to just keeping going

I think it’s super important to put a monetary value on your time.  Literally, sit down. Think about your value. And compare it to the percentile of competition and the market itself.  If you can’t name many skills - then ask yourself. Everytime I give my time to someone or something - am I increasing or decreasing my monetary value? Some things are worth spending time on, even if there’s no direct effect of it on increasing your monetary value. You have to sleep, eat, be with your loved ones. (That does indirectly increase your monetary value, but that’s another conversation) Then other things, not as much.  I asked myself this question and realized I don’t have the skills that I want to have.  So, I’m giving my time away to hopefully gain more back in the future.  Becoming technical. Creating more projects. Even writing these blurbs gives me a mental state of clarity.

@maheshbusiness_ Just don’t let habit form without intention - that’s what my biggest mistake was. Just “doing it to do it”.

being a follower of God while being heads down requires faith to be a habit, not religion.

@maheshbusiness_ that’s what I’m sayin (on paper: vanity)

@jdoesstartups ur ahh does have credibility don’t pmo

note from someone trying be to be someone: I don’t have much credibility in any space, yet. And that’s fine. But I don’t like how quotes like “comparison is the thief of joy” are thrown around as a coping mechanism. Comparison can be used positively. I journal a lot - so every month I use these words on paper to compare myself to who I was a month ago. I split it up into: Vanity & the Self Vanity is what’s on paper. The achievements, the credibility, the things that I don’t want to matter - but they do. The Self is my favorite, yet the hardest to get my mind around. You can be more aware, technical, able than people around you, yet not be seen as so by those in the public. The truth is - it’s really easy to look good on paper. Is that something we should learn to be okay with? Or do we make the conscious effort to be fierce - to be better than ourselves one month ago even if it means to be vain (because we will compare ourselves with others, eventually) I’m not sure. But that’s alright - because I don’t think most people are. They just pretend to. (in my opinion)

i don’t know how to get rid of the chess website thing lol - new to X

Coding journey update 🚨‼️ I started coding in Python 14 days ago and it’s actually kind of fun. I can now code my own simple CAPTCHA system, and utilize tools like Claude, Cursor, and Codex pretty well. Should I get Leetcode soon? I heard it’s like chess.com but for coding. And any thoughts on how I can translate technical ability into creating cooler products?

@maheshbusiness_ @OrcaNets Hypeeed

@OrcaNets launching soon….

The biggest mistake I see founders making: (from an exited founder and someone who runs a startup accelerator) Stop creating your own problems so you can create a startup. You “start up” a startup to solve an issue that you have been through or have seen to make life easier. Let me explain: Paralysis analysis comes from (in this context) being so convinced your ideas is “the next best thing” that even a plethora of evidence against that wouldn’t change your mind. I spend 3-4 weeks before every project to make sure the problem I want to address is even an issue in the first place. Ask people questions, gather real data - creating something on a whim of conviction serves vanity. Nothing good comes out of that. (in my opinion 😅)

@brycent It’s all in our actions

If you’re high agency you simply won’t allow yourself to lose That’s the difference

Throwback to YC @UTAustin @snowmaker (Jared Friedman) had a great talk with Nelson from Sales Patriot. Really opened my eyes to the entire field of the small parts of the defense industry (and the demand for those small parts)

@maheshbusiness_ agree to disagree 😂

@jdoesstartups umich>>>>>

UT Austin is arguable the best school in the nation. I got into Berkeley, NYU, Carnegie Melon, UNC, etc. (and I still stand by my choice) What I’ve realized is that I live in one of the most underrated startup hubs in the nation (at face value), where becoming an entrepreneur or venture capitalist is much less saturated when compared to SFO. And thus, easier to stand out. And ofcourse, UT is at the center of innovation when it comes to sourcing this early-stage talent. I’ve seen it first hand: - with @CapitalFactory teaching classes at UT - to the Austin Technology Incubator helping startups grow like crazy - to the small communities within the city that thrive at downtown Austin meetups (shout @clawcon) - and of course, SXSW This is where my head is at right now - it might change in the next few years as I get more exposed to the space. But I will say, bet on Austin founders.

@boardyai Seconded

You don't have to be in SF to run a successful startup

Product obsessed. Those are the two words that describe me best. The action of creating something with high velocity, getting it out to my users, and iterating it based on their preferences - that excites me. It makes me feel useful. It makes me feel like I am contributing. When I had the honor to host the CEO of Yik Yak on call, I felt like he operated the same way, but 10x that of mines. Kyle Venn understands product, being a huge part of Reddit product history and now part of the college campus atmosphere.

1 hour of TravisCore to build and accelerate to

@NoahKingJr I’ve been doing this - it’s kind of therapeutic

Would y'all keep tweeting with 0 likes???

@chiragiscoding Let’s do it

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