Chrys Bader @chrysb

Co-founder & CEO @joinrosebud. Compulsively curious. Recovering perfectionist. YC S08. 🍊🎹⚽️🧑🏻‍💻🎮🌹👶👶 rosebud.app Los Angeles, CA Joined May 2008

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

3 days ago

@kedytcom Bro pasted both versions from AI 😂

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**TLDR:** Real life change comes from changing who you are, not just your actions. Set goals that shift your identity, and your behavior follows naturally. The 7 ideas: 1. **You're not where you want to be because you're not the person who'd be there.** Successful people don't "grind" to maintain their lifestyle, it's just who they are. Adopt the lifestyle that produces the outcome before you reach the outcome. 2. **You don't actually want to be there.** All behavior is goal-oriented, often unconsciously. Procrastination isn't lack of discipline, it's pursuing a hidden goal like avoiding judgment. Real change means changing your goals. 3. **You're afraid to be there.** Your identity forms through repeated conditioning, and you defend it like a physical threat. Many limiting beliefs were programmed in childhood by parents who were themselves conditioned. 4. **The life you want sits at a higher level of mind.** Koe references ego development stages (impulsive → unitive), arguing most people sit between "Self-Aware" and "Construct-Aware" and can move up through a repeatable pattern. 5. **Intelligence = getting what you want.** Borrowing from cybernetics: set a goal, act, sense, compare, adjust, repeat. Smart people iterate and persist; the low-intelligence move is quitting at roadblocks. 6. **The 1-day protocol** (the actual "fix your life" part): - *Morning:* Journal to surface your dissatisfaction, build an "anti-vision" (the life you refuse to live), then a "minimum viable vision." - *Daytime:* Phone reminders with pointed questions to break autopilot. - *Evening:* Synthesize insights into a vision, anti-vision, and goals framed as lenses (1-year, 1-month, daily). 7. **Turn life into a video game.** Map it out: vision = how you win, anti-vision = what's at stake, 1-year goal = mission, 1-month project = boss fight, daily tasks = quests, constraints = rules. The core throughline: stop setting surface-level resolutions and instead do the deeper work of questioning yourself until your identity and goals genuinely shift.

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

7 days ago

rip

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

a week ago

@garrytan Presence

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

a week ago

Opus 4.8: "Yeah, that’s exactly how I’d classify it now: worth smoothing, but not worth turning into a yak-shave vortex." what is a yak-shave vortex?

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

a week ago

@AliGrids Welcome to startups?

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

a week ago

@lennysan Pretty much sums it up!

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

a week ago

@DoorDash_Help @DoorDash Already deleted our DoorDash app and using Postmates going forward. DM’d you - and you didn’t help.

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

a week ago

1. you order pizza directly from a store that uses @DoorDash to deliver. 2. the DoorDash driver picks up the food but never delivers it to you. who is accountable?

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

2 weeks ago

Banned

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

2 weeks ago

guess what everyone is doing this friday night

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

2 weeks ago

@PaulSolt What’s the rub here / I just told codex to build an iOS app and it did it without me opening XCode. It builds to my phone too.

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

2 weeks ago

@anshuc haha - that makes more sense. i was wondering

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

2 weeks ago

@DonKAriel another great one! ty for the inspo :)

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Chrys Bader @chrysb

2 weeks ago

one of the best things about raising kids is learning through teaching. everything is new again. explaining why things are, and how things are interconnected, it's hard not to feel grateful. we've built an amazing world, and there's a ton to appreciate about every facet.