Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

Lead Engineer | MSAI at U of T | Entrepreneur at heart jacobdhaugen.com USA Joined October 2011

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

21 hours ago

My old system kicked in today: frustration → shutdown → isolation. Changing a personal system isn’t about one tweak, it’s about rewiring patterns over time. Still in the trenches of that process.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

4 days ago

Was able to hack together a quick vibe coded app for keeping track of people I meet during a conference with cursor agents and vercel all from my phone with no laptop. We’ve come so far!

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The courage to be disliked is an underrated book. You have to separate your task from others and take them on, your emotions are always in service your true goals even if you claim to have a different goal.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

2 weeks ago

No matter where I go, I see more people and I see that we all have more in common than we have differences.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

2 weeks ago

Freedom is not being afraid of being disliked by other people

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

2 weeks ago

It’s not about today, it’s about tomorrow.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

Saddened to hear about Charlie Kirk. While I didn’t share all his views, I respect his commitment to debate, free speech, and investing in people, the highest leverage point to work on in any system.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

What’s one thing you’d never guess about yourself just by looking at you? That’s probably your most interesting quality.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

The first job in changing a system isn’t to innovate, it’s to conserve. Until you understand why it resists, every tweak will snap back to old patterns.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

Pain is the best teacher. It burns away everything that doesn’t matter. The scariest part is how quickly those things return when the pain fades.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

More founders should start with proving their product’s central loop on paper. If you can even dogfood it. Does that deliver value? Can you eliminate steps to make it faster and reduce friction? Can you ad smaller loops for tighter control?

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

Every lever compounds in its own domain. Money makes more money, fitness makes you fitter. But relationships compound across all domains: new paradigms, jobs, joy, love. They’re the ultimate leverage point.

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Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob

3 weeks ago

Skill doesn’t scale linearly with effort. It scales with information density. That’s why one brutal weekend in the right room can rewire a year of solo practice.