Go Flip Yourself: week50, 2024
startups while having kids - co-living - your own website - Yatú Espinosa and USB Club - heirlooms - Japan
Every week, I intend to recap here what I’ve written and published myself on k7v.in and the best things I’ve watched, listened to, read.
You can expect stuff around life, culture, tech, parenting, street. Not specifically in that order obviously.
Last week on k7v.in
Update to: launching your startup while having very young kids
6 months ago I wrote about launching your startup while having very young kids. And I concluded that kids make you a 10x better entrepreneur. I recently came across
’s ‘Have Kids’ and got completely off track.The conclusion is perfect:
I'm more ambitious now, not less. Kids don't limit your dreams—they force them to grow. They push you to scale professionally because they deserve your best, and personally because they're watching everything you do.
Most people think having kids means choosing between ambition and family. But the biggest paradox? Nothing fuels ambition quite like unconditional love.
Co-living done right
As fas I remember I've been attracted by the whole co-living idea. People feel lonely. And as Phil is saying in the video, "our housing is a big contribute to this. We need to figure out ways to build housing where you get social connections by default; because it's built in the housing". I can't agree more.
Phil and Kristen wanted to live near their friends, but they didn’t want to sacrifice their privacy, so they started their own intentional community where you can choose your neighbors and eat together but still have your own home. Watch the video and get invited into Radish.
Stuff worth checking out
🌐 The title says it all: For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website. You know what to do then.
To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before.
🗝 I’ve been truly interested in are.na for a while, and been a fan of Cab’s ‘It’s Not Business, It's Personal’ series too. The fact that both of them are skateboarders isn’t lost on me haha. USB Club is one of a kind so if ‘entrepreneurship on your own terms’ feels attractive -or just consumer hardware- check this one out: An Interview with Yatú Espinosa.
My wish is not for more founders like Yatú but for more founders to realize that they can approach their own work in a similar way to Yatú — to give themselves freedom to explore their own ideas to the fullest extent, with humor, creativity and ambition.
🏴☠️ That one resonates on multiple levels since our work with Objet is also to embed memories into people’s clothing for eternity: Heirlooms as Memory.
the role of objects is to carry memories. The real meaning of the thing then is within its mnemonic value. In a way, the chair becomes a sort of transformational object, gaining more significance after the passing of its owner. […]
These stories create a history around the object, signifying the biography of the object itself, which “is no longer simply a dead or inanimate thing,” as Clive Dilnot proposes. “It possesses—or we attribute to it in our imaginations—sentience and power.”
By their nature, heirlooms tend to carry extra significance. The chair as a family heirloom is now a device that conjures memory and connection across time.
The biography of an object should not be restricted to an historical reconstruction of its birth, life and death. Biography is relational and an object biography is comprised of the sum of the relationships that constitute it.
🗾 I’ve written about my innate attraction for Japan a little while ago. Thanks to
, I now know why i keep 'delaying' this first trip: I fear I'll never be the same.Japan is one of those places you have to visit in order to get it. It has its own sense of je ne sais quoi that is hard to put into words. Edward Luttwak once wrote in the London Review of Books, “One can fly to Japan from anywhere, but from Japan one can only fly to the Third World.” He knows.
Enjoy the upcoming week 🥂💎 peace ✌️
oh ya, my kids force me to make 10x better career decisions. It is no longer just about me, it's about us now.