A+ profile on Palmer Luckey, a founder i admire for his self-actualization, principled leadership, and vision

the piece is long but rich with reflections worth saving, like “the one thing money can’t buy is people who liked you before you had money”

tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

This was a great read, thanks for sharing. Might have become a new fan.

Distributed systems developer. Love /nixos and /hybrid-athlete 🏋️🏃🏊‍♂️ 🙆‍♂️.

A caffein ( ☕️ or🧉 or clubmate) substance abuser.

Damn, what a dude:
"Soon after, Sony offered Luckey $70,000 a year to work on the Rift at its R&D lab in Santa Monica. At the time, he had no money. Also, he’d recently told his parents that he’d dropped out of college to focus on Oculus, at which point they sold his camper trailer and told him he could sleep in the garage. That was their best offer.

It is worth reiterating that Luckey was 19, sleeping in a damp garage, and brooming ship decks like Ishmael, in order to appreciate the unusual sense of purpose it must have taken for a near-penniless kid to tell an iconic multi-billion-dollar conglomerate like Sony, in that precise moment—thank you, but no."