Cleansing the timeline with Chris Farley's Letterman entrance from 1996

Strive for understanding not memorization.

"the checkout has become commoditized...it's more about the consumer identity...a single identity across all of these different destinations" lumi.com/wellmade/131-c…

Is it remotely possible to account for the impact of human capital resources (on both the producer and user side) spending less time on backward-looking/maintenance and more time on forward-looking/innovation?

Really enjoyed this post "Thinking incrementally about SaaS" (buckonsoftware.substack.com/p/thinking-inc…) via Buck & was reminded of it looking at Okta's visualization of their land and expand motion. Also pairs nicely with my 2nd favorite Mule post (mule.substack.com/p/better-frami…) of all time.

Thoroughly enjoyed the FIGS S-1. Two parts that stood out: 1) great line: “We branded a previously unbranded industry and de-commoditized a previously commoditized product” & 2) the below mindset on build vs buy, perfectly articulated.

New post buckonsoftware.substack.com/p/category-vel…

How to Work Hard: paulgraham.com/hwh.html

Not just a change happening in public companies. Sales leaders in organizations of any size should embrace these ideas. Buyer behavior and preferences are changing fast than we know

Few things greater in life than a mid day espresso

This speech by Teddy Roosevelt is incredible. It’s impossible to imagine a modern day politician giving a speech like this. presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/addr…

biked to the top of hawk hill and caught the sunrise this morning with Derrick Ho and our colleague Kyle. taking advantage of nice weather and no wind. indian summer is making its presence felt in SF

Cotool (Cotool) is an agentic security platform that eliminates manual and repetitive work for security teams. It helps teams investigate faster, automates common tasks, and documents work in seconds. ycombinator.com/launches/NW2-c… Congrats on the launch, Max Pollard,