Sleepy Saturday in Seoul

[First published on Cent]

We're in the middle of our first major cold snap of the winter here in Seoul. The temperature dropped to 12 below today and it looks like it'll stay like that for another day or two.

So aside from a quick run and short pull-up sesh in the morning, today was a loungey relaxing day spent indoors.

I had an interesting discussion with @Xerographica under their reply to my post on light trust about quadratic voting (QV), put a real dent in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'Skin in the Game', napped and just finished listening to a fantastic podcast.

YC Combinator's eponymously titled podcast has worked it's way into the short list of must listen to podcasts.

Each episode typically features guests from YC alum companies or individuals affiliated or connected with YC in some way. The questions and discussions are really illuminating and for anyone interested in business innovation, company building, operating leadership, and entrepreneurship I highly recommend you check out this podcast.

The episode I listened to today though was with YC CEO and justin.tv co-founder Michael Seibel. Michael also happens to be a great essayist who likes to share super actionable and practical lessons learned as a serial entrepreneur. Over the course of the podcast he goes in depth into the background and inspiration behind some of his most popular essays.

This is a meaty episode and there is a ton of take away, but Michaels elaboration on product market fit and how different that is from simply having a product with users along with his relentless first principles approach to analyzing new startup ideas and the problems they are potentially solving for - or not solving - left a pretty strong impression.

And with that, it's time for me and my wife to tuck into some hearty 닭볶음탕 and watch us some Narcos. Enjoy your weekend everybody.