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Just to recap today’s all company meeting at Rocket…

- Steve Aoki opened
- We talked about progress + vision
- Watched inspiring videos about our impact
- Got a sneak peek of our next marketing campaigns
- Changed a woman’s life
- Most of us cried
- Eminem closed
- Got merch

… pretty wild meeting

We have an all company meeting today and Steve Aoki is opening for it.

I work for a ridiculous company, hahah.

I started taking a vitamin d supplement a little over a month ago and cannot believe the difference it’s made in my life.

Seasonal depression: gone.
Motivation: high af… like it used to be.

Feels great to feel normal. I just needed a lil D.

Boarding the flight just when the bears come back and go into overtime… this has been a fun season.

Sure do love seeing tariff surcharges added to my orders. #maga

Serious question: Why isn’t there a Casey’s serving pizza by the slice inside the Des Moines Airport? Add beer and bloodies. Call it Casey’s Tavern or Casey’s Concourse. It’d be the most popular spot in DSM, hands down.

Check this out to see if I've taken any photos near you.
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Whenever I get sick, I try to pretend like it’s not real… but it’s not working this time.

Flu weekends are the worst weekends.

The United States is fucked.

The latest iterations of iOS and watchOS are the buggiest, most beta-feeling releases that I can remember.

… It’s almost like apple lost focus after falling behind on AI, so the dev teams are stuck in a cycle of launching a bunch of half baked shit while leadership figures out wtf they’re doing.

Today is the first day of the holiday break that has truly felt like a holiday break.

Not sure if I’m ready to go back to work tomorrow.

Child funerals are brutal, man.
Elias was such a cool kid.
Shit is unfair.

Made it to Chicago in 4.5 hours… with a stop. 🏎️

Sunday, we lost our “nephew,” Elias, at just 17. He and his family fought with everything they had after an unimaginable diagnosis. He was an incredibly special kid with big aspirations.

Sending so much love to Steph, Manuel, Ian, Sherry, Elizabeth, Jon, and all who loved him. Rest easy, buddy.

Tonight after golf league, I went to a local bar with my buddy, Carson. A random dude down the bar makes eye contact and then holds up his phone with a giant photo of Les Claypool.
Points at me, then the phone.

Guess I'm out here looking like Les Claypool.

I’ve reached the point in life where I now use a pill organizer.

I also meal prepped my lunches this week.

Kill me now.

The people at fancy restaurants in the suburbs of Des Moines are so goddamned weird.

Heading back to a Des Moines dive bar to cleanse my soul.

I want breakfast pizza so bad

I’ve been experimenting with going gluten free again. As a bread and beer lover, this is very hard. Last night, after a few weeks of being GF free, Kari made GF waffles and I devoured 6 of them.

6 waffles is too many waffles.

I would like someone to invent a chewing gum that crunches like chips the whole time you’re chewin.

I’m a crunchy snack slut and do my best thinking when I take a break to go munch on some chips… but I dunno if my body can take any more chips.