Zaid Al Kazemi

@Shtreetwear @quinnslcm

@TokeMalone Glorious

First time having a massive bookshelf major!!

Desire. I love this topic. I went through this phase at around 18 y/o where I thought wanting things and making money was ‘bad’. I deprived myself of luxuries that I wanted because I was trying to maintain a certain image. I was going to sell all my things, live in a van, say fuck all/be a smelly mountain dude with long hair. This all started to become virtue signaling in itself. The more I deprived myself of things that I desired the more it would turn into judgement and resentment for those that got them! How funny that works. I couldn’t pay rent some months while living in Wyoming, so I blamed the world around me for it. The list goes on. When I moved to California it forced me to snap out of it a bit. Suddenly, I wanted to work harder. I recently got out of a breakup and wanted to dress nicer. I wanted to smell better. These things costed money. It’s nice to be able to walk into a grocery store and grab what I want without worrying if I can pay my credit card off. It’s nice to buy clothes that last long vs cheaply made fast fashion. It’s nice to walk into the vet and know you can take care of your dog without selling your car. I began to realize that the more I made, the people who had the largest opinion about money were those that felt victim to it. Like @naval said, be careful how many desires you have, because you’ll be unhappy until you get that thing. And then once you get that thing, you’ll revert to the same state that you were in before you had it. So, where does that leave you? I see desire as a great motivator. Desire more not for more things. But a desire to want more from yourself, creatively, in how you hold yourself. How the reflection of the world you’ve created for yourself is from how many times it took to drain the tank and fill it up again. That $100,000 watch serves better as a symbol that you gave everything you had, and did what you said you were going to do vs trying to look impressive to the girl at the bar. Do it for you.

@Naturalphilosy @TokeMalone

“If I were only interested in facts I would buy the telephone directory of Manhattan. It has four million entries, and they are all correct, but it does not illuminate.” — Werner Herzog

@aaronjfeeneyy YES EMERGE WITH THE BEAST’S HEAD

BIG GOALS REQUIRE EVEN BIGGER BALLS. I WOULD SAY THAT YOUR BALLS HAVE TO BE 3X THE SIZE OF THE GOAL BECAUSE WHATEVER THE GOAL IS FOR YOU, YOU WILL PROBABLY SOON REALISE, THE MORE YOU WORK TOWARDS IT, THAT THE GOAL IS ACTUALLY AT LEAST 3X BIGGER THAN WHAT YOU ORIGINALLY THOUGHT. LIKE A MOUNTAIN, IT STARES AT YOU FROM THE DISTANCE, TEMPTING YOU TO CLIMB IT, MAKING IT SEEM ACHIEVABLE. BUT AS YOU GET CLOSER, AS YOU BEGIN TO CLIMB, YOU REALISE THE MONSTER HAS ENGULFED YOU, AND BY THAT POINT, THE ONLY WAY IS THROUGH. AND IT IS THE THROUGH, THAT REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE HUMONGOUS FUCKING BALLS BECAUSE IT WILL SHRED YOU TO THE BONE AND THOSE BIG BALLS WILL PROTECT YOUR BELIEF WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS. IT WILL BEAT YOU UP AND TAKE YOUR TEETH OUT. AND YOU MUST STAND THERE, CHEST HIGH, HEAD UP, WITH A SMILE AS THE BLOOD RUNS DOWN YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, AND MARCH FORWARD. AIM BIG. HAPPY FRIDAY.

@apostraphi @quinnslcm

hidden monet jacket lining would go hard

@kuberdenis Looks useful

I am a proud vertical monitor user now

@TokeMalone DeMonte returns

Me in Italy, being led by the love of my life. We meet in the Piazza. Her English is subpar, and my Italian is bare minimum, so we spend the entire night passing my phone back and forth with the translate app open. At one point in the conversation, I have a thought that I’d be okay with communicating this way for the rest of my life so long as she’ll be standing there next to me. She puts me on to drinking Compari neat (or with a little bit of ice) and insists that I’ll get used to the bitterness. A Marlboro Gold in tandem, “ti colpisce nel punto giusto.” It hits the spot.

@calebsloop 10/10 💖

I often share my brand, but rarely my story. This video shares both in 60 seconds. I survived a cancer that should’ve killed me I lost an eye, but found a mission. Here’s where it all began: When I was two, I was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer. By the time the doctors found it, it was too late for chemotherapy. The tumor had wrapped itself behind my left eye, dangerously close to the brain. There was no choice, it had to be removed. The doctors told my parents I shouldn’t have survived. There’s no good explanation for why I’m still here. Yet here I am. And while I lost an eye, I gained something else. A sense that my life wasn’t entirely mine anymore. That maybe, it was a stewardship, a gift to be used, not wasted. It’s strange how losing an eye helped me see things more clearly. You tend to see things differently when you’ve brushed that close to death. You don’t drift through life. You live it on purpose. I think that’s why I’m building what I’m building. Why I care so much. Why I wake up feeling like I owe something to this life. As George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” That’s what I’m here to do. I’m here to create something that helps millions on their healing journey, just like it helped my mom on hers. I’m not here to be casual in life. I’m here to seek life to the full.

@ycombinator @NamanyayG 10/10 talent ❤️‍🔥

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@builtbyeli Sebastian is disappointed

@zalkazemi No way

Chat which one we rockin

@quinnslcm Getting mine when im back from Anaheim 🤌

@quinnslcm Many such cases 🔥🔥🔥

@jestonlu @NotionHQ @ishverduzco @ASalyers3 @jamesjacoby_ Amazing work big G 💖

Life update: Joined @NotionHQ as the first storytelling intern in SF. So stoked to be working w @ishverduzco @asalyers3 @jamesjacoby_, huge moves ahead! Just the start 🫡

@quinnslcm Proud of you G ❤️‍🔥🚀 onwards and upwards 🥂

Reflecting on my life the past month or two, one thing I can deeply feel, that I wish I haven’t been doing as much as I have, is waiting for things to go through before I start. Traveling. Moving. Etc. New opportunities. I almost have been saying ‘when x happens, I’ll do X’ Inevitably things take longer. Things fall through. Life goes on and happens. I dont think there should be anymore waiting around. It creates endless internal excuses and eventually, the goals become unreachable because life will happen again. And again. Time to dive head first. Lots to do.

@ModernNotoriety @KITH @quinnslcm

Jonah Hill for Kith Summer 2026

@JoyBoyBuild Dope

@TokeMalone @Gibboanxious @quinnslcm Ordering a case

@zalkazemi @Gibboanxious @quinnslcm youtu.be/qb1KndrrXsY?si… 😏

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” — ORSON WELLES