Break The Script
Writing on curiosity,
autonomy and breaking defaults.
@_rknotes →- 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.