December 29, 2025

I turned 28 yesterday and like years past, I wanted to reflect on this past year and plan my theme for 2026. But 2025 was different; this isn’t a typical growth year to celebrate, this is a year with a clean ending, introspection, and searching for what comes next. Past themes The theme system was popularized by CGP Grey in the Cortex podcast. I’ve been using it for years as an alternative to New Year’s

November 27, 2025

This is the third chapter in my five-year retrospective. After the life of Pabio, where we somehow convinced Y Combinator that sofas were SaaS and built an apartment in Zurich’s main train station, we were about to discover that math doesn’t care about your YC badge. Our culture was… unique? Carlo introduced the XX:59 meeting - every meeting started at 29 or 59 minutes past the hour so if you’re on time at 8 am, you’re already late. Miss the 7:59 am standup by even 30 seconds?

November 25, 2025

This is the second chapter in my five-year retrospective. After accidentally founding Koj, we somehow convinced Y Combinator to let a furniture company into their batch (I still don’t know how) and embarked on what I can only describe as the wildest operational rollercoaster of my life. Convincing Silicon Valley that sofas are SaaS We weren’t building the next frontier AI model or developer tool, we were arguing about ottoman colors and d