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🚨 JUST IN: Mitch McConnell’s office has released a statement and PHOTO of the Senator sitting in his hospital bed confirming he will NOT be on the Senate floor anytime soon Hey McConnell: you do not OWN that Senate seat. If you can’t do your job, RESIGN. Kentuckians deserve their representation. And you’re not representing them. I’m sorry you’re in bad shape, but Kentuckians should not be burdened by your inability to do the job you were elected to do. — FULL STATEMENT FROM McCONNELL’S OFFICE: “To my fellow Kentuckians –    When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth’s longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I’d keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the past several weeks, Elaine and I have appreciated both your well wishes and your honest questions about what was keeping me away from the Senate.   You all know how folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older. Even in the public eye, I feel that same instinct – I can’t help it.   But at the same time, I’ve had more than my share of experience with physical vulnerabilities. Surviving childhood polio meant spending my entire life with mobility challenges. They haven’t exactly gotten easier to manage with age. And last month, I took a fall which landed me in the hospital.   My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.   I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident. And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength.   As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time. And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet. But rest assured that, in the meantime, I’m not taking a break from the Senate business that matters to you. I’ve been working closely with my legislative staff on current issues, and with my Kentucky team who help me provide timely constituent services across our Commonwealth. I’ve also been keeping in touch with my Senate colleagues on the appropriations process, midterm politics, and everything in between.   You’re right to expect your representatives to work hard for you. And part of my decision to retire at the end of my term this coming January was being honest about the demands of Senate work. But I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf, and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do.   I’ll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible. And I’ll keep you posted on the progress of my recovery. Until then, I’m so grateful for your prayers and well wishes.

Column: For the past month, on my commute, in the elevator and at birthday parties, I’ve been challenging myself to talk to strangers. I wondered: Would it actually feel good, or just awkward? For me, the payoff has been worth it.

There's been times when I couldn't stop: > eating > scrolling > working > watching > wherever It feels awful. A miserable existence. Our society is a predator prey relationship. Companies make money and become rich when they convince us to do things that we can't stop. This is a guide to fight back. My resting heart rate is my Sovereignty Index. It measures whether I am a slave or sovereign relative to the powers around me world. Whether I’m ruled by my impulses or the ruler over them. This past month, my RHR has averaged 41 bpm. It’s my best ever 30 day average. It’s less about the absolute number and more about what it represents. A low RHR is a clinical proxy for high vagal tone which is the metric of parasympathetic dominance and physiological self regulation. It’s taken me years to master the daily habits that enable this. A low resting heart rate before sleep is magic: > better sleep > stronger recovery > improved will power > clear headedness > happier life I speak about RHR because it’s the single number that captures modern society. Everything “normal” today increases a person’s heart rate before sleep. It’s slavery camouflaged as ambition, relaxing, and “living life”. 24/7 work, eating before bed, scrolling, binge watching, vaping, late night debauchery, red eye flights…People mistakenly confuse these things as being admirable and a rite of passage. Don’t be fooled by this. This is a cultural mistake that will be corrected in time. The coming years will look back and see the foolishness of it. Most of you reading this are in a state of chronic sympathetic overdrive, burnout, anxiety and depression. That's the state of society today. 88% of Americans are metabolically unwell. Sometimes though, that's because you have a new born, are caring for an aging parent, are fighting a health problem, or are in some other challenging situation. I remember feeling helpless with three children under 6. For those of you in a tough spot, I feel you. For those of you who have the freedom to make decisions, this is for you. And for those of you in the tough spots, maybe these things can be helpful for you too. Master these habits and everything in your life will be better: > final food four hours before bed > screens off 60 min before bed > same bedtime every night > a wind down routine: reading, walking, hobby > final caffeine by noon > red and amber lights in pm, no blues It's the end of the day that get's most people. It's when your will power is lowest and stress is the highest. We reach for things that soothe but they end up causing us self harm. The habits outlined above are designed to be a check against the version of you that is stressed out and overwhelmed, and not in the best state of mind to make good decisions. Deciding on what you will do before that version of you take charge may help you wrestle the upper hand to start living the life you want.

Startups regularly underestimate how difficult hiring gets, especially after an expensive Series B/C. 1. Mission matters more. The people who join you at Seed/A might want to build a sales intelligence tool because they like seeing 0 to 1. They know that once this gets big, they’ll take home a good chunk of change. After a B/C, they think “is this really what I want to be working on?” 2. Financial incentives are lower. You easily see a path for a $30M valued startup to 10x. Usually this means going from $0 to $10M in revenue. Seeing a path for a $1B valued startup to 10x is far harder. It can mean going from $10M to $200M+ in revenue. And given the incrementally lower equity employees get, they’re counting on that 10x. 3. You attract a very different persona. They’re usually more risk averse and riding on the coattails of the success and name your company has already built. Culture can easily dilute if you’re not careful. The builders get replaced by the certain kind of BigTech person who wants “startup experience” without taking on the risk. They might still be smart, so it’s tricky to catch in any sort of technical interviews. 4. Culture degrades with size. It’s almost by law. In the beginning, you’re under 50 people. You’re all working on a startup you stood up from nothing. This builds a strong sense of camaraderie. As you go to 200 people, your early builders become managers. You start seeing more and more unfamiliar faces in the offices. At some point, you don’t even know everyone in the company. Everyone is eager to do “new” things and leave their mark, but what needs to be done is quite straightforward. The sales team feels like a different kind of person that takes up half the office. You’re eagerly watching the revenue, and your emotions ride on the back of it now, not the joy of creating. Management is in disarray. Now, projects keep getting killed. People keep getting roped into a new “customer issue” and can’t do their main project. New employees feel like this isn’t the culture they signed up for. Old employees feel like they work as hard as they used to from day 1, but the new employees treat this like a “job”. You get your first set of departures. Morale is low. Lunch banter shifts to “what if we just went to instead?” Keeping the company from tearing apart at the seams seems like an insurmountable task. Growing past these rounds can be very challenging and many founders are left blindsided. The awesome company they once had can quickly become a shadow of its former self. And it’s a stage which often separates the elite founders from the great ones. The answer here is usually having a mission worth going the distance for or a culture worth fighting for.