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I tried asking myself what I'd learned after 40, and it turned out to be a lot of the most important stuff I know. At least 90% of what I know about startups, because I was 40 when we started YC. Plus everything I know about parenting and most of what I know about writing.↗

·@paulg·Jul 29, 2026·person·parenting·reflection·startup·writing

You will thank yourself for sending this prompt to Fable: "Read this article and let me know what you would recommend doing off the back of this, whether it's sending things to [project]'s codebase to investigate stuff, asking me questions, or whatever else you recommend. Whethe…↗

·@robj3d3·Jul 6, 2026·tool·fable·prompt·reflection

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.↗