In 2023 I took a 12-month hiatus to recharge after building startups nonstop since graduating college. During that period of time, I had a rule that I would only commit to something if its gravitational force was completely inescapable. The opportunity to join USV was that thing for me, but along the way I explored a variety of different startup ideas. One of those ideas was around helping people not die of heart disease. I published some of my early learnings on this blog last October, and it was one of the most-read articles I've written. I had an idea to create a service that would help people understand their risk factors and get screened for heart disease, and then generate personalized plans for them so they wouldn't succumb to the world's leading cause of death. Every time I told someone about the idea and what I had learned, they soaked it all up. But when I asked if they ever got the tests I recommended, they usually didn't. So I wrote up a very long treatise on how to avoid dying of heart disease, and I was going to post it on a domain I bought, myticker.com, but I never got around to it because I had moved on from pursuing the idea. But I put a lot of work into the document that synthesized a lot of my learnings and experience. Over the past year, it has made its way around my circle of friends, and I finally decided I'd try to make it legible and publish it for anyone interested. I still think this is a problem that needs to be solved and that someone should build a company that is consumer-first and exclusively focused on helping people not die of heart disease. If you're interested in doing this, please reach out to me because I'd love to help you and share all the work I did. Someone needs to put the myticker.com domain name to work. I also want to thank some people who helped me along my heart health journey: Harvey Hecht, James Min, @Drlipid, Arthur Agatstan, Andrea Klemes, Louis Malinow, @jwessler, @neilparikh, @smart, Alan Tisch, David Kopp and Carrie Weprin. If you have a heart, I hope you find this helpful. And if you care about someone else's heart, I hope you share it with them this Holiday season. Happy Thanksgiving, and don't die of heart disease!

dear @telegram someone is impersonating me on telegram trying to set up meetings with people using @ jaredhecht i (and other people) have tried to reach out to you via report impersonation and other channels, but nobody is responding or manning support channels halp please

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4/4 matches went to a final set on arthur ashe yesterday 3/4 ended in a tiebreaker wrapped at 330am two all american matches an american man guaranteed in the finals absolutely epic day of tennis

daniel caesar appreciation day piped.video/uh0SpzMsZAs?is=9Pjt…

just got back from a 6 day river rafting trip down the salmon river with my family completely disconnected from the outside world now i’m the most enlightened person on this website ama

if you love chess, backgammon, washington square park, and product design, especially designing gaming experiences, reach out to me ASAP for an awesome opportunity

i think about this article a lot especially this quote in relation to @hellobiographer - you can just make things by talking about your life

“What we are witnessing is an aggressive attempt at a hostile takeover of an American institution. There is still time to stop it.” With primaries ongoing and the DSA’s influence inside the Democratic Party growing, RDI Chairman @Kasparov63 on five things everyone needs to understand before the midterms: thenextmove.org/p/five-thing…

1238 stories four books printed biographer wiki launched but most importantly, beginning to coalesce around creating a purpose-built experience for documenting your life artifacts like books are nice, but the experience of interacting with @hellobiographer is the real reward

here is a taste of what @hellobiographer generates after a 10 minute interview about "the world around me" in middle school

just bc 10% of the things RFK says are contrarian and true doesn’t mean he isn’t a total fucking quack who is massively unqualified for his job

no better time for a viable third centrist party to emerge in the US

One of the early ideas we had with Biographer is that everyone's life is made up of stories and experiences that are interconnected to the broader world. Over time, we want to create an interactive tapestry that reflects this. The Biographer Wiki is the first step.

weekly update: 568 stories told so far new photos feature launched last week where you can voiceover photographs so we can create living photo albums two books sent off to the printer, one of which was completed within 72 hours of a user signing up

it’s time to build

as the internet mean converges towards claude design, talented designers reign supreme

I'm going to try this out and you should too.

Capitalism is a powerful force for good. It benefits everyone, especially those who lean in and help build the future. But it’s under attack (again). Wealth taxes, price controls, government-run grocery stores, asset seizures. Fear is being used as a political lever and an excuse for control. I’ve seen this play out before, it leads nowhere good. I lived in Buenos Aires in 2008 when the Argentine government seized $30B in private pensions to ‘protect’ citizens from the financial crisis. Then they froze access to the dollar and nationalized companies. Within a decade, inflation was over 50%. The elites had miraculously moved their money, leaving regular people to take the financial hit. Politicians are selling collectivism out of the same playbook used by Argentina, Venezuela, and the former Soviet Union: promise protection, concentrate power, tighten the fist. And the costs fall on the poorest people in society who are unable to protect themselves. Capitalism isn't perfect. But it’s far better than every alternative that’s been tried. Millions of people making independent decisions, with the free market rewarding the best ideas, will out-build any central planner.