Break The Script
Writing on curiosity,
autonomy and breaking defaults.
@_rknotes →- May 2026Founder Life
Doubt
Doubt isn't evidence against you. It's evidence that what you're doing actually matters.Everyone tells you to build more confidence and work on your mindset. But doubt never really goes away. The more you care about something the louder it gets. Here is why that might actually be a good sign.
- May 2026Founder Life
Building a Startup in 2026 Is Easier Than Ever. That's the Problem!
Everyone is a founder in 2026. Very few people are building something that matters.The barrier to starting a company has collapsed. AI tools let you build a product, write a pitch, and find a first customer in a weekend. That should be exciting. Here is why it is also the problem.
- May 2026Tech Takes
The AI Bubble Nobody Agrees On
Everyone is asking if AI is a bubble. They’re asking the wrong question.There are bubble-like conditions in AI markets. But calling this the 2000 dot-com kind — the one that collapses and takes a decade to recover — misreads what is actually happening.
- May 2026Macro RiffsTech Takes
Three Industries, One Foundation
Your car, your bank, and your AI assistant are all running on the same infrastructure. Most people haven’t noticed yet.Three industries that appear to have little in common — AI, fintech, and the auto industry — are converging on the same underlying infrastructure. The common thread is energy, data, and digital currency.
- May 2026Founder Life
Love vs Obsession
Love gets you started and discipline keeps you going. But obsession is what separates the work everyone produces from the work only you produce.Near the end of The Devil Wears Prada 2, Miranda Priestly says 'I love working.' It's a simple line but what makes it land is everything that came before it. That's the difference between love and obsession.
- May 2026Founder Life
Why Founders Should Build Lego
Startups are designed to never feel done. Building something with a last brick might be the most important thing you do outside of work.Somewhere in the middle of building my startup I forgot there was an end goal. Not the mission. Something simpler than that. I forgot that a finished thing could exist. Then I picked up Lego again.
- May 2026Founder LifeAgainst the Grain
How I think about money?
Most people have their relationship with money exactly backwards. Here is how to treat it as a tool for time and freedom instead of an end in itself.Most people have their relationship with money backwards. Here's how I actually think about it, why I treat it as a tool and not a destination, and why the real cost of any decision is rarely just the dollar amount.
- Apr 2026Tech Takes
State of Fintech
Fintech didn't recover in 2025. It consolidated. And the gap between a handful of dominant players and everyone else became the story itself.Fintech in 2025 wasn't a recovery. It was a consolidation. Stablecoins crossed into mainstream payment rails, AI agents started making financial decisions on their own, and a small group of companies pulled so far ahead that the gap became the whole story. Here's what actually happened and where things stand heading into 2026.