Stories and Openings
Personal anecdotes and story seeds.
- When I was in third grade, I wanted a palm pilot. Everybody thought I was weird.
- "Austin is a great place to not work that hard." — Ben W
- I woke up to a silent airport. Ended up getting stuck there for a couple of days. At least I got some Dishoom.
- One time we hosted a Moonlight meetup in London. I was tired and cranky and did not want to do the event. We showed up to find the bar closed. After waiting for 10 minutes, we realized that nobody was coming anyways. Both relieved and frustrated, we went home.
- Nomading was fun, except when it was not. I returned from one of the best dinners of my life to find our Airbnb had been burglarized. No laptop. I had to get a Spanish keyboard. The keys were different, so I set the software to "US layout" and did not look at the key labels. The worst part was that I did not remember much of the dinner, because I was up late at a police station.
- Food trucks near me
- Get on cover of student newspaper with Text Reject
- Pitching on stage to Sam Altman
- I have learned to only eat ramen at places that serve nothing but ramen.
- Sleepwalking at Boy Scout camp
- Sleeping through hanging out with Jack Dorsey
- That time I was interviewed by Sam Altman
- Having instant ramen for the first time at the age of 33
- Cellars NYC
- My preschool teacher said I asked "why" too much
- Ret con in Hollywood
- Text Reject
- I used to be a daily fountain pen user. I once forgot to put my name on physics homework, and the TAs identified me by ink.