GM!

what is a pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of your life?

CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icebreaker.xyz/j4ck • /j4ck • DJ sixsix

Discovering Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham’s blogs. Introduced me to tech startups, led me to quitting academia to start my first startup.

In research only 2 types of people do well:

Those who are not especially brilliant and don’t mind being a small cog in the slowest turning wheel of all time.

Those who are exceptionally good at science and truly passionate.

If you’re in the middle, it’s soul-crushing drudgery.

what would you tell people in academia now that you’ve made that transition?