building payments tech at Etogy, previously @visa and @globalpayinc, former lawyer, runner, father of 4

Alpine, UT
Joined July 2008
it’s gonna be a good week
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I’m not gonna read this but Bill Maher does suck
One week until the midterms Trump: here’s 1,300 words on why Bill Maher sucks
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$2T IPO incoming
New from OpenRouter: 7-day average token volume for Anthropic models is up 3.6x since the launch of Opus 5.5 Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 have also been well received.
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I started a group coaching program in August as a fun thing and our cohorts are killing it. Focus is body recomposition. New 13 week cycle starts each first Monday of the month (link in bio)
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Replying to @tomnweston
Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston
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it’s so early for fintech
BCG: "Global fintech revenues surpassed half a trillion dollars in 2025, growing 22% year over year. That also means fintechs outgrew traditional financial services four-fold and now account for approximately 4% of total global financial services revenue".
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prophetic markets
Bishop: “Those who heeded President Christofferson were protected from the event of this weekend.”
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Every year NBA referees call playoff basketball quite enjoyably, allowing them to play with physicality, the way everyone wants, and then for some reason they reset at the beginning of the next season to "what if we called 51 fouls per game"
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Mitt woulda done the WH up good and proper like the Mayan 😭
next president should redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe
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The Cheesecake Factory is a modern marvel. It should not be possible to have a menu the length of a Stephen King novella and have everything be available and pretty decent.
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me and my mtc companion the first time we did a role play discussion with a native speaker
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This is how I imagined @jack when he was running both twitter and square at the same time
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The Covid “hey time to go to Costco and stock up” thing we told each other end of February / beginning of March 2020
Now is a good time to change passwords that you've reused or that have appeared in data breaches, get a password manager, turn on 2FA with an authenticator app, and turn on automatic updates. This weekend. Carve out some time and do it today.
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Texting my friend in the groupchat: Obviously ai bro. Someone’s getting scammed. Credulous much Side texting him at 2 am: I wish a monkey could sing like that…
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real ones know
I’m more of a Grand Lux Cafe guy than a Cheesecake Factory guy tbh
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hardly ever get to sail across the sea shirtless with cool leather bracelets anymore smh
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“What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent garbage meal?”
An Illinois racoon got so fat that he got stuck in a sewer grate, forcing police to show up and free him. Images via the Zion Police Department
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I didn’t know that you get to keep the ball if you attempt a field goal on 3rd down. Thought you turned it over. What a strange football game that was.
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Wow, this blew up, Etogy is payments.
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The best thing about the new Sense and Sensibility movie is that there’s at least one good dog in pretty much every scene.
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