The best tweets are the ones that are true enough to hurt a little bit.

I'm always looking to partner with smart sales and marketing types to complement my product, engineering, and operational skills. DMs open. Hit me up.

ASK. Want a business or life partner, to find a mentor, launch a business, start a new initiative at work? Define the commitment needed from others to make it happen and ask for it.

"Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance." - Chris Dixon

On a call with an Italian customer earlier today, he pronounced GBs as "jiggabytes". Forever bonded with him now.

One of the problems with leading software teams is engineers sometimes like engineering too much. They put up with shit that people who like engineering less would eliminate.

I wonder if part of the reason driving can be relaxing is because it encourages you to widen your visual perspective in line with Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.'s insights.

You can't consume your way to creating.

I've got love for Elon Musk because he's figures out which ideas matter most to him and acts on them. He doesn't seem sanctimonious about ideating or executing. It's what he thinks is important, which includes having fun. Crazy to think about his potential legacy long term.

One breakout success in your team can rearrange priorities, leadership, and practices from the bottom-up. People begin to emulate and change their behavior faster than any onslaught of meetings or decks could ever get them to do.

You can accomplish nearly anything if you simply refuse to quit. Stay focused and keep going.

I was today years old when I learned that those battery cover slots… that don’t seem to fit any screwdriver or coin… are designed to be opened using the battery itself.

Speaking to someone who spent their career trading energy recently, he told me we’ve lost much of the precision engineering capacity and knowledge required to build and run nuclear plants. “We lost a generation”. What a terrible problem and amazing opportunity.

This is making me hate Scala all over again.

The people who brought you Facebook just solved automating back stabbing and land grabbing.

Hey Ben Thompson, Passport looks brilliant. Can one buy into it for their own audience?

Personal productivity insight: I'm strongest early in the week then and taper. Of course I'm fresh on Monday, but I also tend to set reminders to check on work I delegate one week to early the next. Tasks peak at 8-10AM and 8-10PM.

Wait a minute, has self-expression through art been prompt engineering this whole time?

Data labeling engineer. Objective function engineer. Prompt engineer. Quality audit engineer.

Codex is an app for building and exploring personal knowledge graphs using digital artifacts, like text, images, and video. What its inventor, Iian Neil, calls a knowledge worker's OS. Here's how we went about discovering a brand + visual identity for Codex.