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Explorations in tech, investing, science and philosophy • SF / Warsaw • Action produces information • Luke B.
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Trajectory
I back founders who optimize for trajectory, not today's coordinates. They pick a direction, place dots daily, and look for the line those dots create over time. When they believe the slope is right, they have a kind of calm energy, because they're not waiting to 'arrive,' they're already moving.
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Learning Velocity
The founders I want to work with treat learning as a tool, not a hobby. They're intensely focused. They ask two things: does this unlock the next part of the roadmap, and does it tell me what to do next? That kind of focus usually isn't willpower. It comes from genuinely living what you're building. When someone cuts distractions this consistently, it's a signal they're deep in it. Their intake gets tuned to near-perfect fit. Exactly what they need for the vision and exactly what they can act on next. Put together, it creates a learning velocity most people can't keep up with.
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Node Maxxing
I back people who understand that opportunities move through networks, and who know how to be a strong node in that graph. They increase their radius by giving real value, showing up where interesting flow happens, and making their signal memorable: what they're building, what they're good at, what they're trying to do next. Done right, intros and options start arriving not because they chased them, but because the network learned to route them there.
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Taking Action
I back builders who use action to force the world to answer. Action produces information: you ship, you talk to users, you run the test, and reality gives you constraints you couldn't think your way into. They're also disciplined about the ideas-to-validated-ideas rate, because a startup doesn't move on clever thoughts, it moves on what survives contact.