Unexpected ad from McDonald's / McDelivery draws a smile. In Swedish interior magazine Sköna Hem. Tr: "Really good taste. Now in your home."

One of our funny blind spots: * When facing a headwind: we are very aware of it, and attribute our issues to it * When benefiting from a tailwind: we’re often blissfully unaware of it, and attribute success to our own talent Seeing this so often (including in myself)

Newly founded startups have no choice but to delight their customers. They don't have enough power to maltreat them. One of the most important things the founders can do as the startup grows is to continue to insist on delighting customers.

Underrated skill for founders: Altitude shifting. People are often either good at high-level strategy or atomic-level execution, but rarely both. It's the ability to zoom out & paint the 5 yr vision, and then drop down into the weeds of day-to-day, & see how the two connect.

It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. kk.org/thetechnium/68…

It looks like suddenly, having 20+ years of experience of not clubbing, not going out for drinks, working remotely, being in video calls all day long, and, most importantly, having a bad haircut has become a huge competitive advantage.

Ruby brilliant. Heinz Ketchup Made a 570-Piece, All-Red Puzzle for You to Solve, Slowly musebycl.io/makers/heinz-k…

Historically, renaming things has not been a good sign. It usually falls on a continuum from bogus (liberty sausages) to totalitarian (Kampuchea). Though one end of this continuum is comparatively harmless, there is nothing good on it. Productive people have other things to do.

If you want to start a startup, it's good to know about multiple, unrelated things. Startups often depend on 4 or 5 different kinds of knowledge, and it's great if they can all be found in 2 founders.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A "bedtime story" I did not fall asleep while reading is the contrarian, highly educational, 16 year long Klarna fundraising story, by the Klarna founder himself Sebastian Siemiatkowski (scroll down to "A bed time story"): flatcapital.com/en/about-us/

A fast growing Markify is happy to welcome three new members to our global account management team. markify.com/blog/Expanding…

As Klarna grew "senior execs" surrounded me demanding; focus, priority, strategy Never felt right & never worked Back to organic, iterative, testing tons of things = worked Don´t lead from "board room" Lead from "trenches" Now Nassim Nicholas Taleb has given me a word for it: Anti-fragile

Global IP service provider Questel acquires Markify. CEO Benoit Fallenius: "A perfect match." Blog: markify.com/blog/Questel-a… Press release: questel.com/about-questel/…

Gondola in the harbour. Venice? No, Malmö! #saasiest #saasiest22 #roomwithaview

I don't think people understand the monumental changes coming to software this decade. Quick thread:

LP asking a VC how their portfolio did in 2022

We just took a leap with chatGPT. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

I haven't used Stack Overflow since ChatGPT came out.

Discover the new ChatGPT powered trademark search: markify.com/blog/Markify/Q…