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Ways Startups Die: Raising Too Much
The Stagnation Trap: Why Slow Growth is Riskier than Fast Failure
The Way Startups Die: Pivot Hell and the Not Shipping Trap
The Way Startups Die: Platform Risk
Measure Twice Cut Once: The Idea Maze and Dead Ends
Alter Egos and Getting Off Social Media
The Future of Payments: Why Finance 3.0 Won’t Be Fully on the Blockchain
Wake me up when september ends
Logging off the Toxicity of Twitter (X)
Cloudflare's Anti-Internet Stance
Regulate Social Media or Reject the Moral Confusion of the Extreme Left. Choose Both.
Build the Future You Want to See
How Big is the Vibe Coding Industry?
Pragmatic Thoughts on a SF Homebase for Startups in 2025
Earning the Privilege of Working with Founders
Signal and Noise in the Reputation Economy
But what will the pet store service people do! They exclaimed!
Two Years of Learning to Code with LLMs
Products I've Been Iterating On
Platforms, Consulting, and Agencies Oh MY!
Intelligence Has Always Been Cheap
The Key to Making Cheaper Toilet Paper Is Better Trucks
Reducing the Cost to the Surface of Mars by 10,000x
Deals Are Done on Handshakes and Papered by Lawyers
The Game Theory of Relationships and Deals
RFS (Request for Startup): Infra Billing Optimization for the Long Tail
The World Needs more Useful Software, Not More Lines of Code
The Higher Education Bubble and The New Grad Gap
Building Companies with Friends
The Dark Art of Being a (good) VC
How to Run Engineering Interviews
The Event Horizon Part 2: The Great "AGI" Bubble
You Can't Solve Someone Else's Problems
Feelings we don't have words for
What Do You Mean My Tesla Has Feelings?
When the Distribution Decides to Sample Back
Mapping the Road Ahead: AI, the Human Brain, and the Future of Generalized Path Planning
Welcome to the New Era of Software