Dave Morin 🦞
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Dave Morin 🦞
@davemorin
Founder @OfflineVentures @Slow @Path • Chairman @Esalen • Board @OpenClaw • Early @Apple @Facebook • Podcast @MoreOrLessPod • Skier • Dad of 3
- 5 Simple Rules For Happiness: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less.
- The internet used to be where you would go to escape the real world. Now the real world is where you go to escape the internet.
- Imagine waking up in the morning. The power is out, not just in your entire town, but your entire county. Everything is dark. Really dark. You're exhausted from carrying large cans of gasoline to refill your generator. You wake up your kids with flashlights and get them dressed.
- Success in startups is directly proportional to the number of hard conversations you are willing to have.
- Overwhelmed by requests to rebuild a better @path. Considering doing it. If you are interested in working on such an idea, DM me. Let's see if a passionate team forms. If so, we'll do it.
- Making the algorithm open source is one of the singular most important ideas to improve society. Do it @elonmusk.
- I like physical goods. I try a lot of them. So many are the same. This feels different — like it's from another time.
- Replying to @davemorinYou're actually grateful for the experience because it has taught you about what really matters in a way nothing else in modern society can. This is your reality in 2019 if you live in California, America.
- Replying to @davemorinYou had no idea the electric grid was such a single point of failure in modern society. You thought it was designed better than this. You were wrong, so was everyone else.
- Replying to @davemorinYou are confused, you feel on edge, you feel unsafe. You paid your taxes, you contributed to your community, you did everything you thought you were supposed to do in American society.
- Success in life is directly proportional to the number of hard conversations you are willing to have.
- The @Path Team was the best I have ever worked with. Loved every person. Many late nights went into designing and engineering the quality of the product. Our great hope was to bring more happiness and meaning to social. Grateful for the kind words and feelings today. 🙏🏻
