Thomas Forbes

Taking a gap semester from Georgetown to deal with health issues and work on personal projects.

Previously, I dropped out of my final year of high school to work at bestever.ai in sf.

My favorite feeling is finishing a long day of work and having something I can point to and say "I made that".

My second favorite feeling is to jump out of plane 🪂

What I've been up to

📙 Favorite Quotes

172 quotes from Readwise

How do you find the simple ideas?

The 3rd rule of curing midwit syndrome: Inversion.

If you want to become the guy on the left: Write down your goal, write down how you'd assure failure, and avoid that.

Example 1: "I want to become happier in 2024"

The midwit will start researching complex nootropics to ingest or esoteric gurus on the meaning of life.

Instead, how would you ensure you were miserable in 2024?

2024 Goal Setting: The Midwit Meme Guide by george-mack.com

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Email app

releasing soon...

Current email apps aren't excellent. I didn't like that so I am building my own for fun.

Student at Georgetown University

2024/08 -> 2025/05 in DC

Software Engineer at Bestever

2023/06 -> 2024/08 in SF

Full-stack engineer. Finished my high school coursework in my freetime.

Summer 2022 in Dublin

Ireland's leading young builder accelerator.
Built an Anki like study tool with automated flashcard generation using gpt-3 (yes I'm an unc)

Bronze medalist in 2023, 2022 and top 15 in 2021 and 2020

Don't forget to sleep well tonight