The foxes have returned. Menlo Park is healing. We are the virus. But seriously, Yellowstone quality wildlife viewing in... Menlo Park

Thanking subordinates in public communicates that they're not actual stakeholders. You don't thank someone for doing something they want to do or have a vested interest in, you thank them when you're the one who benefits. If you want buy-in, compliment and aggrandize in public.

Obvious that president's approval rating is stable because he's so polarizing, but new (to me) insight from Byrne Hobart is that it's a positive feedback loop: Trump can act so outlandishly specifically because he's not taking the same level of public opinion risk.

The book I want most to read.

I don’t believe in a/b testing in startups It’s a crutch for product teams, it excuses incomplete & poor thinking, and it takes all pressure off developing good judgment and customer intuition. Fine if you have millions of users, not when you need to put zeros on the dashboard.

A project I've been working hard on, layerfi.com, has just raised a great round from great investors, is feeling fantastic customer pull, and is hiring a founding engineer, in person in SF. Fantastic team, great energy, great opportunity. Please get in touch.

Hard to understate the opportunity for accounting for SMBs in the coming years. Vsaas digitizes business data previously only tracked with pen and paper. AI makes taxing bookkeeping workflows 10x better. TruckSmarter uses Layer to provide gold-standard accounting for customers.