Keeper

Matchmaking client in Miami, 41, doesn't want to meet a good match after discovering the woman has one small tattoo beneath her wrist. “No tattoos” wasn’t part of his criteria, and I’m pushing him to not add it now. I completely understand religious objections, and not wanting to date someone with visible tattoos. But I’m skeptical that an inconspicuous half square inch of ink signals much about your compatibility with a woman in 2026 🤔

Worth interrogating why we automatically reach for wartime megaprojects and not the far larger and far more socially useful work around railroads, electrification, etc

Building a marriage product is a discipline problem before it's a technical one. The matching algorithm is hard but solvable. The harder problem is staying focused on marriage outcomes while VCs every quarter push you toward making bad matches to juice short-term retention and revenue. Bad matches destroy the brand, skew the pool male, and gut NPS. Once the loop starts it can't be reversed: bad matches kill organic acquisition, which forces paid acquisition, which destroys unit economics, which forces more bad matches. Every team in the category has eventually broken. Keeper will be different.