Kyle Porter ☔️

@mattwelter Put your identity in something that can never be taken from you.

i have... - an amazing girlfriend - making ~$450k this year - can work anywhere / anytime - live in a house w/ a pool yet i have anxiety every damn day, tight chest, hard to take a deep breaths, intrusive thoughts, always feeling not enough, can never relax what went wrong

@howard Howard is a man eating lion!

Here is my personal version of 996 that helped me found and lead a public company to a billion+ dollar IPO, all while being a dad, wanting to be in good physical health and leading another startup that is exploding right now. It is necessary for me to take discipline to the extreme. Especially working remotely. Here the daily non-negotiable routines I've developed to ensure I attack every day like a emporer: -Wake up -Weigh myself. I am 6'1 and aim to be under 175 each day. My body fat is currently about 12%. I try to cut to 10% for my birthday each year around my annual physical to "reset" everything to be as clean as possible. -Put on gym clothes. This is a pyschological "cue" based trigger trick. It's easy to put gym clothes on whether or not I am feeling motivated to work out. But once they're on and I feel them fitting, I going to work out. -Espresso. I fast until 2:00pm each day. -Set timer for 30 minutes and read something hard. I try to challenge myself with something intellectual. I just finished The Road to Serfdom. I recently also read a guide to Newton's Principe Mathematica. The point isn't to make myself smarter through this acquired knowledge. It's that reading actually stimulates my brain. I keep a pen and paper and come up with many of my best ideas while reading since the brain automatically makes analogical connections to whatever work I'm currently grappling with. Charlie Munger's quote about "You can get smarter at getting smarter" lives rent free in my head. -Weight Training for 60 minutes right after reading. This is 6 days a week. I lift heavy with a trainer. Chest and Back, Shoulders and Arms, Legs 2x a week. On the 7th day, I do a longer run - either 6 miles in 40 minutes or 8 miles in an hour. -Work like hell. I have very few scheduled meetings. I have a daily standup with my core team where we just do everything, then it's ad-hoc conversations to do the work that is necessary. The work is designing products and executing growth intiatives. It's mainly IC work since I don't really believe management is necessary anymore. -I talk to people all day but I don't do 1:1 scheduled meetings. They slow things down, they clog up calendars, they turn into therapy sessions, and generally I think most information with few exceptions should be with the team, not just one person. They are a tool for lazy managers. -Around 2:00 is the first meal, it's usually all protein. The ideal is a salmon filet and a bit of steak. -Work like hell as an IC. We have worked to eliminate political theater at our company. It's all ICs just doing work and making dispassionate decisions based on skill, data but above all taste. The only thing that matters is the product and success of customers. -5:30pm: 2nd workout, cardio. I have an assault bike, a Concept2 rower, and a treadmill. I rotate between the three with a 15 minute conditioning working. This gives me a tremendous energy boost for the rest of the day. -Work like hell until 7:30 -Dinner and family time -9:30 back to work until usually 12 or midnight. -I repeat this routine 6 days a week. -I say no to most things, which is hugely liberating. -I expect everyone to work extremely hard, but not as hard as me. -I get 7 hours of sleep per night. Total blackout, cool room. I don't track my sleep yet I just set up the conditions for good sleep and leave it to the gods to make it happen. I am not a great sleeper but oddly I have found that sometimes I am *more* creative on less sleep. I've found some of my best ideas and work come when I am sleep deprived. -If I'm stuck on something, I'll go for a walk or read. That always unlocks things. -My kids come home at 3pm and I get to see them. 90% of time with them will be over by the time they are teens so working remotely lets me experience this important part of my life more fully. -I rarely drink alcohol anymore. I'm not a teetotaler, it's just not important at this point in my life and I have no time for extra activities. Cut. -I don't watch Netflix. Series are designed to rope you in and burn your time. Game of Thrones I think has like 100 episodes. That's 100 hours of your life! You could practically learn a new language in that time. -I keep a daily journal where I write a short to-do list as well any thoughts or insights I'm having for the day. I write in it throughout the day. Not just a single entry in the morning, it sort of is the real-time notes of my thoughts. -I wear the same thing every day. I have 50 of the same shirt and 20 of the same pants and a bunch of the same socks. This makes everything interchangable and elimates decision fatigue when getting dressed. As I robotically get dressed, my mind is free to wander on other things. -I have 8 pairs of the exact same shoe, coded for different days of the week. I rotate them by day, which keeps them fresher with a week-long recovery period. The 8th pair is for weekly run, a special fresh paid. -Dining out takes a lot of time and gets old. -I have increased my productivity by subtraction. I used to have an EA to schedule meetings, etc. Now I don't even really do meetings and if I do, I just schedule them myself. Less is more. -I respond to everything instantly or never. Inbox zero is irrelevant, but Calendar Zero is the ultimate ideal. -Everyone sings the praises of creatine but it just makes me hold 2 extra pounds of water. I don't feel any benefit from it. -I don't plan very much. I wake up and decide what I'm going to do that day. I don't I've learned to act empirically in the moment instead of abstract rationality, making plans. Reading challenging material is really important but it's not enough to live in the world of ideas. You have to take action in the real world. The scientific method is mankind's greatest invention and I believe everything is possible, just not yet discovered. Experimentation beats ideation. -I don't judge or fault anyone for living their own life however they want. This is just how I chose to live mine at the current moment.

@howard @charliewu @orchard_robots 🍊 ?

@charliewu @orchard_robots 🍎🍏🍒🍓🍇🍎🍑

I'm excited to announce our $22M Series A here at Orchard!🍎 Here @Orchard_Robots, we’re securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms. Our mission is to make farming profitable, efficient, and sustainable again.

@jakeowen Damn this got some 💪 outlaw vibes. Voice getting iconic. Well penned & performed Jake.

One day I’ll get it right….. “Them Old Love Songs”- OUT FRIDAY

@MrFamilyOffice Paradox of choice. If you can do nearly anything, what will choose to do?

what’s the biggest rich people problem?

@_ChadReid @AtlantaFalcons Same

@AtlantaFalcons Andre Rison

Who's the first player you think of when you see this helmet?

@NUCLRGOLF “Just missed it”

@chamath @AmericanExpress They have a strong b2b sales motion but leave consumers alone, which is nice.

.@AmericanExpress may have the laziest and worst run marketing department of any large company. I have had an Amex Gold card for 20 years. In that time, I have also NEVER been approached for any kind of upsell, cross sell or reactivation. This is despite spending habits that, in some months, in some years, were quite meaningful and diverse. It’s almost as if they have ZERO understanding of their customers. Net result is ZERO loyalty. In the last few years, I’ve mostly migrated to using the @Mastercard Apple Card and the umpteen Ramp cards I’ve been issued. Seems like a big fail that will eventually catch up with them.

@4EVARDR1 @QuincyAvery - Taxes on both ends my man.

@QuincyAvery If you invest into a bank that pays 5% yield he would live off of 100k yearly and that’s if he doesn’t get a job and adds to such account. So yes 2 million is enough to be set for life if you don’t spend it right away

$2 Million dollars isn't set for life. Just so we are all clear.

@forgebitz You get what you create or allow.

"All in all we went from $0 to $100m to $0 because I followed the advice of the VCs." When you raise from a VC you need to build a unicorn (aka 1B+ company) and nothing else Doing 10M ARR? You are a failure, 50M ARR? Nope.. You failed A lot of amazing startups implode because of this model and this is also exactly the reason why I am never that worried to compete with well-funded companies because I know the chances of them imploding are very high @levelsio said it very well: You are just another 1/100 bet to a VC Is all funding bad? no, I think there are interesting opportunities and now that the model is changing (I hope) we will see more "boring" investments made in companies that focus more on sustainable business models

@auren My investors were really cool with smallish secondaries at milestone rounds. Really helped me buckle in for a longer journey knowing the team back home was taken care of.

Founder CEOs are massively under-comped after 4 years. I just spend the last few days advocating for 3 different founders to get higher go-forward comp. But their VCs just don’t get it. The VCs are soooo short-term. when you have a truly great founder, making them feel comfortable and valued could potentially 2x your return – give them the comp they deserve

@SheehyforMT WTG Tim!

I’ve been serving our country since I was 18, because when your country calls, you must answer, and I am incredibly honored by your support and the trust you’ve placed in me to fight for you and serve Montana as your next U.S. Senator. THANK YOU, MONTANA!!

@Jason Ar 22 for kids

@Jason Sig mpx

Got a hillbilly shooting range on my horse ranch 🐎 — what should I add to the armory? Looking for some fun stuff to train my girls with 🔫

@TripleNetInvest Dude you left out “worst case scenario” which invalidates the tweet.

The WILDEST call was made on CNBC in Oct 2023 by Rick Santelli: "...so if somebody asked me... where Treasury rates are going to go in the 10Y, I'd say in the next 7 years you should be able to see 13.5-14%..." The 10Y has ripped higher over the last several weeks and is over 4.6%... Where do we go from here? For the latest updates on commercial real estate and the financial markets just like this, make sure to follow @TripleNetInvest

@jasonlk Desire to reward investors for staking us and believing in me was a big motivator, 4th highest to be exact.

So this year I lost the most money I've ever lost on a VC investment It's OK. The fund will do OK. One loss can't kill a fund. But what the founder said still rattles in my brain: "What do you care? It's not mostly your money, anyway" A different world than I grew up in

@hnshah @rodfeuer It’s “rate or our own experience”

@rodfeuer The "rate of experience" part makes it hard to parse. But I get the ethos.

Your business can only grow as much as you do. Founder’s stagnation equals company stagnation.

@jasonlk #3 on a list of top phrases I live by

Only the best can really take constructive feedback Everyone else just wants to be told they are doing well

@austinh___ @unifygtm @HeggieConnor Well penned and great vision!

Exactly a year ago I left Ramp after 2.5 years as a leader on the growth product team Today @HeggieConnor and I are excited to launch @unifygtm and share that we’ve raised $6.6M from OpenAI, Thrive and Emergence. Our mission is to power warm outbound for the world’s most ambitious growth, marketing, and sales teams👇

"Even among the talented who choose a path of building, most take safe, incremental bets. Such pursuits not only fail to push the world forward, but pose a cost in opportunity. There are important challenges facing humanity that no one is working on, including critical, and even existential challenges. In other words, if you are an exceptionally capable person, failure to pursue a good quest is not neutral. It constitutes a loss for humanity." — Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner