Tyler Baker

He didn't need all 6 days. He could have spoken everything into perfect existence instantly. But He chose to show us His method: order from chaos, light from darkness, fullness from emptiness. The pattern is evident: Israel: slavery > wilderness > promise land Jesus: suffering > death > resurrection People: darkness > surrender > light Good work is typically accomplished with progression and order. And rarely (if ever) without challenges. It's been this way since Gen 1.

God takes what is formless, dark, and chaotic and transforms it into something beautiful, ordered, and good.

closing section of buffett's final letter: "One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve. Get the right heroes and copy them. You can start with Tom Murphy; he was the best. Remember Alfred Nobel, later of Nobel Prize fame, who – reportedly – read his own obituary that was mistakenly printed when his brother died and a newspaper got mixed up. He was horrified at what he read and realized he should change his behavior. Don’t count on a newsroom mix-up: Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it. Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior. I write this as one who has been thoughtless countless times and made many mistakes but also became very lucky in learning from some wonderful friends how to behave better (still a long way from perfect, however). Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman."

@dgt10011 Love this take

Found a pulse

@austinking @peace_node Except for Mercury

@peace_node Ya, basically every bank interface today is garbage

You all realize Bank of America has $1.96 trillion in customer deposits right? And that their CEO said they'd launch a stablecoin once policy was clear? The largest stablecoin today has a market cap of $0.14 trillion. Zoom out, way out. Things have barely begun.

@immad @typesfast If he had to star an entirely new business in a different industry with 500k in startup capital but he couldn’t leverage his existing network for anything, what would he do? And how? This guy is a G and whatever he touches will work. Curious what he’d do.

We have @typesfast, CEO of Flexport on the Founder’s in Arm podcast tomorrow. Will be chatting about tariffs, founder mode and the latest in global shipping. What other questions should I ask him?

@BrentBeshore Great work Mr Beshore!

Hit my target weight (180 lbs) two weeks ago. Out of a calorie deficit for the first time in 26 months. Man, it feels good.

@DoerflerJared Love the story telling in this post. Going from zero to one is a journey few can relate to! Way to go.

The golf space is an awesome industry. It is filled with a lot of very kind and supportive people. I am forever grateful for the 318 people that gave us a shot in 2024. I am so humbled. If you want to support the small guy. hannagolf.com

I quit my job in 2023. I had a plan, but I had the skills of a 5-year-old for what I wanted to do. And in 2024, I launched Hanna Golf. It’s been the hardest thing I have ever done. Here's how the last 18 months have gone.

@henrythe9ths Ai guide

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

Sometimes it’s easier to solve a bigger problem than a smaller one…

Please take the time to visit and follow Jesse’s Caring Bridge page. An unbelievable family being confronted with unspeaking life circumstances. What I love about Jesse is that he is gearing up to fight, while also not looking at God or these circumstances with contempt.

@gregisenberg Good for you man. Keep going.

I started a design agency in 2020 called LCA. This month, it made $845k. But here’s the story of how it started. That day, I met with a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He told me I was wasting my talents. He was discouraged that I was thinking so small. If I’m being honest, It sucked because I really looked up to him. He said: “why would you build a lifestyle business like that?” I told him I loved working with big brands and I thought it could be a pretty big business. And I believed that with my team I could help inject new life into businesses that needed beautiful design and new products. The first month we did $18k of revenue. Maybe he was right. But it compounded. In May, that business (latecheckout.agency) did $845k of monthly revenue. Pinch me moment. Sometimes listen to your intuition. There’s a reason it’s telling you something. Just because it isn’t venture-backed, doesn’t mean it isn’t a “good business”. “Lifestyle businesses” are actually pretty cool. Sharing this story to all the people on the fence about starting that lifestyle business. Just launch it.

@ankurnagpal Would love to see it.

I wrote a 20,000 word guide on Personal Finance for Startup Founders Covering: equity & how to manage your cap table, building a team, QSBS, fundraising strategies, selling secondaries, exiting your company & more Leave a comment if you want free access & I'll DM it to you

@SievaKozinsky Great stuff! Keep it coming 🙏

@joshgessner Great thread — Now you’ve got me wondering what the British should have done instead?! 🤓 Perhaps the incentive was fine and all that was missing is the accountability element — strict penalties for gaming the system. Farmers get fed to their pets?

The Cobra Effect challenged my thinking . I hope it sparks you to think about yours. If you enjoyed this or learned something: 1. Retweet this thread to someone it might help 2. Follow me @joshgessner for more writing like this. twitter.com/GessnerJosh/st…

I just read about a crazy phenomenon... The Cobra Effect:

@rafaquinn In what ways did your due diligence criteria change after you honed your thesis from Hco1 to Hco2 to Hco3?

HoldCo 1.0, 2.0, and Beyond My partner and I began our HoldCo journey in 2011. I would call this HoldCo 1.0. We acquired 3 businesses earning between $350,000 and $800,000 each plus 3 bolt-on acquisitions which added $100,000 to $200,000 each. We bootstrapped this company using our capital, debt, and cash flows from our businesses. We learned a lot. We made a ton of mistakes. We honed our investment thesis. We lost key employees, faced embezzlement and fraud, and lost customers, contracts, and brands; through it all, we persisted. We began to believe in what we were building. To gain confidence that these companies were not as easy to kill as some may think. We learned what to look for in a CEO, how to work with them, and how not to micro-manage. We learned to focus on cash flow. To laser in on it. We built our criteria for what we look for in an acquisition. We learned patience and to stick to our plan. Then we entered the US. This is HoldCo 2.0. We raised money from investors. We have purchased three businesses earning between $1m and $2.5m each. We began working with higher-caliber CEOs and learned a new tax system. Our due diligence has become more sophisticated. We have added a full-time CFO and COO. We continue to focus on cash. We continue to delegate management. We continue to be patient. We will keep buying these SMBs as long as the market offers attractive risk-adjusted returns. Does that mean we will follow this model forever? Maybe. Maybe not. I know we are learning. I know we are compounding at a strong rate of return and building a cash-flowing machine. Those cash flows will serve us regardless of where the market moves. Where the opportunities arise. We will continue building our company wherever it takes us. At heart we are investors, we go where the fish are. Maybe we will stay at HoldCo 2.0 or maybe at some point we will pivot into HoldCo 3.0. Only time will tell.

@sgorlick @Uber This is solid! Keep’em coming. 🙏

From my time scaling @Uber, I’ve seen that the right people working on the right thing at the right time can change the world. Every startup is different, but the tactics we used to grow can be applied at other companies. I’m breaking down the best ones on X for free :)

Today, Uber is a $140B company with more than 6 million drivers. But in the early days, we had to overcome the same chicken and egg problem many startups face: Without drivers ➡️ riders couldn’t get a car And without riders ➡️drivers couldn’t make $ Here’s how we solved it:

@QuilanFoster SMB

Interested in business acquisition? I've created a Notion database with the top online resources in the SMB community. I'll continue growing it over time. Just comment "SMB" and I'll send it to you by DM. (must be following or it won't send)

@BrentBeshore Hmmm…. Your personal operating system for managing energy, time and money // whats underrated and overrated in the trenches of SMB investing // bringing the kingdom forward in business

Realized recently that my loaded schedule makes it nearly impossible for me to have the space to write, which I love to do. I've fallen into the trap of busyness. I'm made people pleasing into an idol. Blocking 30 minutes/day for writing. Any topics you'd like me to cover?