Journal

Chi-cha San Chen, investor call, YC group office hours

Continued working on landing page. Summer session started so doing a little bit of work for that, problem set finished for next week. Felt unproductive and didn't go for a run either or do pushups...

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Meetup with Yale friend, Omomo, cousins, Manaflow

Met up with my Yale friend at Irvine Spectrum Center. Was a great conversation going over our post-grad plans and also sharing with each other our recent senior trips. Went to grab boba at Omomo...

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Chill day, driving, cousins, startup advice, coding...

Continued coding new launch for Manaflow. Had some time to drive to my cousin's house in LA, so spent some time with them. The drive was kinda fun - first time in a while that I'm not autopiloting...

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1k followers on X!

Reached 1k followers on X this morning! Did a lot of coding today, more features and cleanup before the Manaflow 2.0 launch. Did not actually launch today, but we're looking to do something by the...

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Prepping Manaflow for launches, The Lean Startup,

Started off the day with a 1 mile run and then 55 pushups. Read a bit of the Lean Startup and then proceeded to code pretty much the whole day with the exception of 2 calls. I shipped new queries and...

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Code, call, code, code, code, repeat

Today was a big coding day for me. Trying to get Manaflow 2.0 launched soon so am pumping out feature after feature as well as revisiting old UI to redesign. I ran 1 mile today, actually would have...

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Exercise, social media cleanup, coding Manaflow

Started off the day with a 2 mile run in 8.5 min pacing and 53 pushups. I had a slow start to the day, spent a bit a time doomscrolling X and following back some of the cool people that followed me...

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Grinding starts again, call with quant firm, insights from Zero to One

I woke up today super energized. I slept the whole day yesterday after visiting my cousins in Cypress so I was able to recover the sleep debt, jetlag, and food poisoning. I was kind of sore from the...

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Regressed back to jetlag...

Last night was a bit tough due to the mild food poisoning but I think I'm getting better now. I didn't sleep well enough to get rid of the jetlag but hoping that I can stay up today to fix it once in...

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And the grind starts again...

Woke up today very energetic. Decided to immediately go for a run around my neighborhood and did 2 circles around a section, which was around 2.3 miles. Afterwards, I came back and completed 50...

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Back home after a month in Asia with my Yale friends

I arrived back in Los Angeles from Taipei, concluding my senior trip in Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan. I had a great time traveling with my Yale '25 friends right after our graduation in May. It was an...

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