This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t: No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.

Decks are worse than documents. Far worse. It's why we don't create decks for internal or external communication at 37signals. Not one. No Powerpoint, Keynote, Slides, whatever. There's no presenting, only communicating. If we want to communicate an idea, a direction, a

“Our employees are not children.” - Spotify

you should try this one

The celebrity founder is a modern illusion. Building requires clear thinking, not spotlight-seeking. The market rewards value creation, not personal brands. True leverage comes from systems and code, not media cycles. Fame is just expensive signaling.

Anger always finds a target. And then mistakes it for the source!

the only career advice i have is make every decision that moves you closer to not having to be on linkedin

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

constantly reminded of that Silicon Valley clip around the company that raised too much at too high a valuation

LMAOO

i get the sense that simply because more *can* be built, many teams are over indexing on that vector, and spending far fewer calories on whether something *should* be built. important to remember that more features != more value or better ux.

Building Product Teams vs. Building Products 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/andrerocha…

It's quite annoying the "normal" thing to do now is to break login into an email step and a password step, which requires twice as many interactions to get logged into a website using a password manager than if you just had email and password all on one login form.

just as the holy roman empire was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire, ARR today is neither annual, nor recurring, and perhaps not even revenue

i feel this deeply at times

Name a more useless notification

RTO mandates lead to ‘brain drain’ attrition, researchers say hrdive.com/news/rto-manda…

You Are How You Act - You are the sum of your behaviors not your intentions - boz.com/articles/you-a…

coinbase banned slide decks a few years ago. one of the best decisions ever. your idea should stand on its own in a document without shiny slides.

Copilot is so bad that any org which uses it as their main AI integration (including some huge ones I consult for!) is just telling me they don't know what they're doing. It is the kind of thing your IT procurement team buys, not the kind of thing your CEO buys.