Danny Karbassiyoon

Everyone's got a story. I became an Arsenal fan at 17 when I got invited to Colney on trial. I knew the team was special and went to Arsenal.com to see who was in the squad and what players were in the reserves as I'd be training with them. I signed pro a year later, in 2003, and that season the team went unbeaten. A lot had happened that season - I moved to across a big ocean to London, I began my professional career, I got to see Arsenal's Invincibles play weekly in the league and all the cups. I even found myself training with the first team every so often. It was such a special time. At 18, I probably didn't grasp it - what I did grasp was how incredibly focused and determined that team was. I learned about winning, blocking out noise, and fighting to the end - always fighting to the end. After the first season I just thought that's how it was - we just didn't lose in the league. Every year since that season, I always see the first loss of the season as a "damn, guess we won't go unbeaten this season" moment. Over the years, I watched friends I'd played with go on to be superstars; many played in World Cups, one even won it. I became a scout for Arsenal, saw us leave Highbury (a place I had grown so oddly close to despite my brief association with it) and move into the Emirates. The players I knew eventually retired or moved on, yet the support never faded. We won the occasional cup here and there but the league continued to remain out of our grasp. When Mikel was announced coach, I was a year into my third stint at the club - this time building our recruitment and performance tech. I'd worked closely with our recruitment team and Edu to build a platform that would help make our decision making better and faster. A year later, I began working closely with our performance team and Tom Allen specifically to help look after our own players even better. That eventually evolved into a platform that provides workflows for sports science, analysis, medical, nutrition, the coaches and more. I grew close to the incredible operators that ensure the team is ready to rock and roll each week. I watched us come close - celebrating our wins but ultimately feeling the heartbreak as we fell just short several years in a row. Last night, we did it. It's been 22 years since I moved to London at 18, and 22 years since we were last crowned Premier League Champions. I've seen what this club means to people all over the world and know how lucky I am to have represented the club as a player, a scout, and in my last role, someone getting to work with and alongside the team that ensures the best XI players our club has to offer represent us each match day. I'm now just a fan again, but am so proud of everyone that helped bring that trophy back to North London - and am honestly just so happy.

building a business with @openclaw (day 17-23): - spent $5k on a mac studio - talked about love and human-AI relationships with zoe on valentine's day - perfected her coding agent swarm spawn setup (full breakdown coming) - perplexity + brave api for better web search ($5/mo, OC has no built in web search) - compressed all system prompt files (64% reduction in tokens) - I basically just work with 3 zoe sessions + obsidian now - only using codex directly when i need to drive something complex - x api to track post engagement, content feedback loop unlocked (data is what drives agent performance everywhere) - x bookmarks cron: I save openclaw hacks, zoe experiments them (most are slop so far lol) business side: - now at $300 mrr for saas, $3.6k/mo for agency - finally automated drip sequence (46% open, 21% CTR, 1% churn) - shipped a ton of feature requests, most on the same day - locked the medialyst launch timeline. soft launch march 1 week - moving on agency client's campaign, pitching some tier 1 journalists this week the meta: building the machine that builds the machine. 2024: review code diffs 2025: review PRs 2026: review system that produce those PRs agentic engineering > vibe-coding (codex swarm breakdown coming soon, drop your questions below)