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Essays are the longer arguments. Notes are short and current, often posted on LinkedIn first.
- Software Roll-Ups: What Happens When the Original Plan Stops Working? A holding company can own a software business forever. The plan for running it can't be permanent too.
- The hire I wanted to believe in I allowed for exaggeration in a developer I hired. I never allowed for fabrication, and it cost us a year.
- What Happens When AI Makes Thinking Optional? AI can hand you the output. Understanding the work well enough to question it is the part you have to keep.
- Most AI Writing Doesn’t Sound Like You Sounding like you takes context no prompt carries. So I built Writers Room and open-sourced it.
- Garmin bought the coaching layer. It still can’t see why you train. Sensor data can’t hear “my knee felt off on the descent.” That gap is why I’m building Ontrack.
- AI can ship your third feature. It can’t give you standing in a market. When everyone can build faster, the advantage moves to credibility in a market you belong to.
- AI didn’t make ideas less valuable. It made unfinished ideas less valuable. “Just an app for X” used to be enough. Now a real idea has to arrive fully formed.
- The Product Is Becoming the Easy Part AI made building cheap. What lost value is the unfinished idea.
- The scarce skill now is the discipline not to build the wrong thing. Anyone can ship now. Knowing what not to build is the job.
- Once your software is one prompt away, the subscription becomes a tax. Nobody churns loudly about thin SaaS. They sit with the renewal notice a little longer.
- The Wrapper Has a Shelf Life Once a customer can rebuild your $29 tool with a prompt, the subscription starts to feel like a tax.
- Mailchimp didn’t buy our software. They bought a de-risked relationship. A year as integration partners answered the question diligence usually can’t: can we trust them?
- Building Was Never the Whole Job A year before Mailchimp acquired LemonStand, they were already watching us work. In Slack.
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