>> apple previews liquid glass. >> everybody: “eww, what’s that brotherrr. can’t even see a thing 🫩” >> few weeks later: “everybody designs liquid glass with pride 🥹” are we okay? 🤔

extreme proof of work!

Love still being at a stage where we see massive upside in the core product and our only job is staying fully focused on making Linear better for our ambitious customers.

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resourceful people are the best.

context engineering with AI systems has also exposed some errors we have in context in our day-to-day communications with people.

Dear founders, Do blind references. If you get a bad one, dig into “why.” If it is b/c they pushed hard and it rubbed a few folks the wrong way, that might be a green flag. If all the references glow, the candidate might be too much of a people pleaser, a red flag. Love, Bh.

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always true. especially in our time.

extreme proof of work.

Jim Rohn's call for massive action is one I've heeded many times in my career. It's incredible what doors and opportunities that open when you show up with a relentless spirit to make things happen.

Don’t start with the product. Start with distribution. I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the time because distribution is the hardest part of building a company. “Build it and they will come” almost never works. And even if you expect distribution to be hard—it’ll be 10×

WHY RETENTION IS SO HARD FOR NEW TECH PRODUCTS I’ve been staring at retention curve data for 15-plus years now. I was a founder, a product manager, and now a VC. And at Andreessen Horowitz, I end up meeting hundreds of startups each year, many of them through our a16z speedrun

Applications are still open till Saturday. Come lets work together

everybody: “damn it’s over. so many layoffs. AI will take everybody’s job” everybody now: “wow! so many people getting jobs,” jobs raining. keep pushing.

a solid team indeed! the cognition & windsurf team are really doing some amazing work.

google should have been called tech

i guess so many people from LinkedIn just found X. they’re LinkedIn-ing X.

oh my Godddddd!! they are LinkedIn-ing X.