I used to think climbing the corporate ladder was the ultimate goal. But after my time as a CTO, I realised the truth. I didn't want to climb. I wanted to build the ladder myself. Some thoughts on mid-life, impatience, and why I’m building Creu Labs. betsworth.io/where-did-the-…

One of the biggest struggles when starting your own company, is finding balance. Work too much? Feel guilty. Don’t work enough? Feel guilty. Has anyone cracked this?

whatever happened to perplexity? at one point I thought it would dethrone google, now I have no idea what they're up to

Returning to X to find thousands of accounts bragging about how many followers they’re gaining and how much engagement they have. And this is the only content they post. Where are the interesting people?

2026 is the GREATEST time to build a startup in 30 years I’m 36. I’ve sold 3 startups, helped build companies that raised billions, and backed teams from seed to unicorn. 20 MEGA shifts that make this the BEST time to build in a GENERATION: 1. Hardware got smart. Download

Sam Altman literally explained why most startups fail in just 16 minutes. He broke down: • Product-market fit • Team building • Market selection • Competitive moats Here are 14 lessons worth more than a $200K MBA: 1. 80% of startup success comes from one thing

I tried Claude Opus out for the first time today. Incredible model, but how does anyone afford to use this? It’s 3x the credits of Claude Sonnet in Github Copilot. 1-2 prompts was 2% of my monthly usage!

I gave an interview after a conference talk about 5 years ago, pre-GPT era. I was asked about AI taking our jobs, whether we should be worried. I confidently said, “AI is great at completing specific tasks, but it struggled with creativity and uncertainty. If you want job

Been dogfooding ETLR on a few side projects. One workflow actually alerted me to that recent Cloudflare outage before their status page even updated. If you want to set up simple monitoring for your own site, here is how I did it: etlr.io/blog/2026-01-0…

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

Honoured to be a national treasure. I guess most vibe coded apps don't get that much traffic 😅

I've started building a workflow automation platform where the aim is to follow infrastructure as code principles, creating workflows in YAML and deploy them through the CLI. Looking for some feedback on the initial dashboard implementation.

Looks like Apple jumped ship and ditched OpenAI. To be honest, I'm not surprised. Gemini has been on point recently.

I really enjoyed putting this workflow together. Low code, high value.