Welcome to @garrytan, CEO of Y Combinator! 

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

I feel like I lived many billions of lifetimes to be in this body at this time in human history. I don’t know if reincarnation is true but it is a useful thought experiment. So this morning it is gratitude for being alive and for being present and to serve my communities.

Even w/o reincarnation your genes are the historical record of millions of generations of life forms that struggled against their environment and succeeded in passing them to you in an unbroken chain. The imprints of that struggle and the solutions derived laid as a scaffold for you to take your best run at it.