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 3 mile run yesterday so decided to take it easy and walk 1 mile. Completed my 52 pushups as usual.

Finished reading the rest of Zero to One today, and here are some insights: 1) You are not a lottery ticket - becoming successful requires luck, but luck can also be manufactured, 2) Your company is its own culture and selecting people with optimism and determination is underrated as opposed to raw intelligence, although good to have both if possible, 3) A good way to start companies is looking for ways to 10x improve on existing players. There's much more but this is what I remember from the top of my head.

I went on a call with a prominent hedge fund / quant firm to see if there would be an opportunity with Manaflow. They seemed interested and were impressed with the demo, so I'm hoping that we can get a follow-up. They currently use Tableau as their primary data analytics and visualization software. I think our software could be a 10x for them especially since they don't want their well-paid engineers to be working on building dashboards or other tedious internal tooling. Licensing / white-gloving is definitely the play here especially for these more secretive firms to protect their IP.

I visited my dad's company office and worked there for a bit. It's nice but there wasn't that many people in the office. I did get a vendor badge though, and I listed Manaflow as the company.

What did I do today:

• Walked 1 mile
• Completed 52 pushups
• Finished reading Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• Promising call with quant firm / hedge fund on Manaflow
• Visited my dad's company office and worked there
• Worked on Manaflow code lol