Hi. If you’re reading this, I’m glad. It means that somehow, in this vast ocean of knowledge, your boat has bumped into mine.
Being a founder is great. I get to see the world in a lens of opportunity. Anything can be my next project, and anyone could be my next partner. It’s the best open world game, and I’m lucky to get to play it. But solo founding is lonely. There aren’t many other founders who are on this ride with me, by definition. And those you do meet, are often headed in different directions. So here we are. I cast this digital logbook into the ocean like a message in a bottle. I hope it finds someone, and someone finds it helpful.
In short, as long as you’re interested, you should read this. You could be interested for personal gain, to found something of your own. Welcome. You could be looking for someone to live vicariously through, if so, welcome again. You could be looking for a friend, a constant voice, an investment vehicle, a source of experience, a novel perspective. All, welcome. I ask but one thing: approach with curiosity. Ultimately we are all solo founders, but we all must anchor eventually.
Someday I imagine looking back on this and thinking ‘wow, I used to think so differently’. The only way to do that is by making an indiscriminate recording of all my thoughts, right or wrong, regularly and consistently. My goal is to share an honest and earnest account of my experiences solo founding. I expect that some will be practical, some will be rants, but even that could change. This will act as a logbook of my journey.
Right now I’m working on a project requiring the use of Google’s new nano-banana. Substack recommends me to put images in my posts, so here’s one of a message in a bottle.
The prompt goes: “Generate an image of a message in a bottle, floating in the ocean. The sun is setting to the west, and there is clearly parchment in the bottle but no words are apparent. The bottle is plugged with a cork, and is unrealistically clean, and floating aimlessly on an endless, calm ocean.”