In honour of my 9 year old son asking me for money for a hare brained business scheme for the first time, I’m pleased to announce my new venture investment vehicle - Dad Cap. Drafting our first term sheet now. I am never going to see this £20 again.

I am the average of: - a 9 year old geek, - a 5 year old lunatic, - an amazingly creative yet organised and analytical wife, and - a rag tag bunch of GIS, Software and Data engineers. Sounds about right.

Because MAURO commits CRAP to the kernel.

If you could offer a single album (or record) that explains who you are, what would it be?

The best bit about working Martello is that they let me.

ChatGPT is so good as a tool for thinking. If you use it as a question and answer system, you're doing it wrong. It's not "intelligent". It's a mirror, reflecting back what you give it for review, criticism, and reframing. What you end up with is not new, it was already there.

Can’t wait for Pocket to shut down. The sense of relief knowing there was nothing - nothing - I could do to read all those articles will be palpable.

No, *you're* absolutely right.

Clip from Context (Shopify internal podcast) with Rousseau Kazi felt worth sharing. We talked about how the role of PM is evolving in a world of vibes and AI. What is changing, and what isn't

The people who make a difference focus on the work. The people who don't make a difference focus on the people doing the work.

Why are all the icons blurry?

Fun fact: this book was the genesis of the phrase “the whole hog” meaning you implemented everything in the hog book.

Had a similar issue with a flaky internet connection on my MBP. Claude figured out that it was the Ethernet adapter that was at fault and then researched a new one for me. ~£15 later and Internet has been rock solid ever since.

The value of having a technical “vision” for a product isn’t that the vision is “good”, it’s that there is one (and only one).

“You’re being creative wrong”

All these posts about how judgment is now the bottleneck in product. It always was! There are just fewer excuses now.

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