A letter

A letter from Wilson

Dear friend,

These days I work with people as an investor, a mentor, a co-founder and an entrepreneur, and most of them are much younger than I am. I love that. It also means I hold myself to a high bar. I want everything I bring them, my values, my experience, my energy, to be at full strength. Supersuit is a big part of how I do that, and to explain why, I have to tell you about my mind.

I have ADHD, and a strong version of it. When someone tells me a story, I have many things going on in my head, and sometimes I am imagining something that is not what they said. Mine is not only my mind drifting. It is also not being able to stay still. In school I could not sit down long enough to prepare for anything. At law school I found out what happened when I finally did prepare: I could see the pages of a case in my mind and write them out in the exam, and I got top scores.

I don't know if it has gotten worse as I have gotten older, or if it has stayed the same and I never really learned to deal with it. I learned to deal with it well enough to find some success in my life. But it has always been something I have had to navigate. For most of my life, my tools were speed, kindness and humor.

My memory is not bad. But age doesn't make it easier. The older you get, the more your memory needs context and a jog to get things right, and it won't get any easier from here. My intelligence isn't lacking, and my experience is the best thing I bring. I want to be the oldest person in the room with as much energy as a thirty-year-old. And I do not want to drop a ball with the people I work with. At this stage of my life, I hate promising more than I deliver.

So in 2024 I started recording my phone calls, so I could refer back to them later. I have more than seventeen hundred recordings now, and I can't remember the last time I had to trawl through my notes to find what someone told me months ago.

Then I started working with Gary, and his brain works very differently from mine. Gary has aphantasia, a very special neurodivergent condition. He's unable to picture anything in his mind or replay a memory, and if it isn't written down somewhere, he can't hold onto it. When you tell Gary a story, he hears exactly what's been said, with no embellishments or distractions, a bit like an AI model. So he built his life around catching what is true. I'm still learning how to work with a mind like his, and I've asked for his grace while I learn, so that the way each of us thinks ends up making us both stronger.

That's what Supersuit does for us. For me, it feels like a suit tailored just for me. It lets my ADHD run, and then it pulls me back so I'm not holding up progress. In the morning, when I have the most focus, I spend an hour or two with Pluma, our agent. I go through every project, make the calls only I can make, and head to the gym. When I come back, everything has moved forward.

Gary and I think very differently, and the same system works for both of our brains. I believe it can work for yours.

It's never too late to start. If your mind goes a hundred directions at once, or you worry about what you'll remember in ten years, I'd love to meet you.

Wilson Fong

Co-founder, Continental Works

Gary wrote a letter too. Read Gary's letter