[Music] How do you know your golden shadow. One clue is in who you idolize or envy. We tend to project our unrealized strengths onto other people.Have you ever admired a visionary founder or brilliant coder and thought, "They're incredible. I can never do that." That almost painful awe you might feel actually might be your own potential reflected back at you. For founders, this is huge. The qualities you most admire in your heroes might exactly be what you need to unlock in yourself.Maybe you're in awe of a ...

The biggest threat to your startup might not be competition or the market. It might be you. This was a painful lesson I learned after my first startup's roller coaster journey.Founders focus on product, market, and code. But there's an overlooked factor that can make or break a company, the founders's own psychology. And I want to help you avoid learning this the hard way.We rarely talk about how what's inside the founder can sabotage or supercharge a startup. Everyone obsesses over strategy and product but ...

In February 2025, Nanzong and his son Stanley filed a lawsuit against the University of California system alleging racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the college admissions process. Stanley Zong was no ordinary applicant. By age 18, he had demonstrated such exceptional coding prowess that Google hired him at an L4 position, typically requiring a PhD or equivalent experience.After rigorous technical interviews with five Google engineers, he created Rapid Sign, a free e-signing service built on ...

https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ What you can do: find your legislators for an oversight hearing on how lax conflict of interest policies at the CA Department of Education allow revenue-generating curriculum creators undue influence in authoring curricular guidelines for CA public schools Follow Jelani Nelson on X: https://x.com/minilek?s=21 Right now in California, there’s a push to rewrite how math works — not just in the classroom, but in the law. Two bills — AB 1217 and AB 500 — are working their ...