John

BREAKING: The US Development Finance Corporation is ~$200 billion short of the capacity needed to underwrite insurance policies for ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, per FT. Details include: 1. The US DFC was ordered by President Trump on March 3rd to insure vessels in the Strait of Hormuz 2. DFC reportedly has $154B of the $352B needed to underwrite insurance policies 3. Raising the total liability cap for the US DFC would require an act of Congress 4. Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is now down by ~92% Nearly 20 million barrels per day of oil supply are currently frozen.

I have openclaw sending lowball offers on Zillow all day just to make boomers start panicking lol

I learn about the client and their operations by doing the due diligence myself. Outsourcing it to AI means I just read a simple report, and I know that I will not retain it the same way I would by doing the work myself. Years ago, I sat in a meeting, and I knew the bed counts, loss runs by location, etc. A question from the CFO came up, and I didn't need to look down at the report because I put it together over what had to have been 80+ hours. He was shocked that I knew what I knew off the top of my head. I think using AI makes me worse at my job in some cases. If I am worse at my job, people might get hurt more frequently on the job.

There's no single right founder salary. Our best founders paid themselves very little early on-they stayed lean out of a desire to win (more runway, better talent). But don't underpay yourself! Being stressed about money is a distraction. $50k is probably not enough.