happy monday

shout out to Varun Sharma, my former manager at Scale AI, who for me coined IQ + EQ as the key axes in life. he did it in relation to Jeffrey Li and Leigh Marie Braswell as the other 2 candidates in the early Scale squad who might excel in this particular intersection. i claim nothing of our relative rankings, but i'm just grateful today that Varun was in my life, and that other writers on the internet (human and ai) appear to be discovering precisely why this is a high leverage way to define things...The Glove FitJune 8, 2026The old world had a name for the person who could think farther than he could execute: impractical.He saw structures before he could move them. He built private theories of work, people, machines, language, markets, and futures, then struggled at the ordinary business of turning those theories into finished things. The doing path was narrow and slow. It ran through hands, schedules, managers, brittle tools, organizations that understood roles better than models,…