Kaan Divitoglu

BREAKING: BMO found the average cost of a date has surged over the past few years. The average date for a millennial is now $252 and the average (up 32% from 2025) and Gen-Z is spending an average $205.

Hannah Palmer insanely beautiful

gaps in SF relationships: - commute gap (city vs. south bay) - tech gap (startup vs. faang) - poly gap (enm vs. monogamous) - hustle gap (building next unicorn vs. touching grass at 4:20) - flakiness gap (confirms then ghosts vs. actually shows up) - housing gap (rents a closet in the mission vs. sleeps in the office) - weather gap (55° foggy sf only vs. santa cruz weekends) - ambition gap (burning man + ayahuasca vs. kids + marin backyard)

starting a consumer company is basically opting into pain as a lifestyle. you need this weird, almost contradictory stack which is taste + timing, future intuition + present execution, & culture fluency + product rigor. most ppl have like… one of these. maybe two if they’re lucky. oh the worst thing is that there’s no clean feedback loop. ain’t no tidy dashboards telling you you’re right. it’s mostly vibes, weak signals, & ridiculously delayed validation if it comes at all (kinda like being in a toxic situationship). you’re effectively betting on something that doesn’t fully exist yet, using instincts you can’t quite articulate, in a market that will happily ignore you until it suddenly doesn’t. this is one of the most asymmetric games you can play but also one of the least coherent while you’re in it. i think of it as playing a video game in hall of fame difficulty with no tutorial & half the UI missing.