Price Fairly: Value Over Undercutting or Exploitation
How I think about pricing as an anti-capitalist business owner... I'm not the cheapest, to undercut everyone and exploit my own labor for volume. I'm not the most expensive, to maximize profit and price out everyone who isn't wealthy. I just price my products and services for what they're actually worth, and I'm as morally neutral with my pricing as I can be.
Uber's AI Vision: Robotaxis, Safety, 20M Workforce
Dara Khosrowshahi just answered the questions that will define Uber’s future: When do robotaxis actually scale? Do human drivers become obsolete? And what happens to millions of jobs when AI hits the real world? — Why Dara says AVs will eventually...
Fox, Sinclair Slam NFL Antitrust Exemption for Streamers
An NFL Partner 👇 Fox, Sinclair Decry NFL Antitrust Exemption as Sop to Streamers https://t.co/ORRVrmc6xZ via @sportico @crupicrupicrupi
Watch Out for Integrators Hiding Risks Behind Green Reports
Beware of systems integrators who master accountability avoidance. They control the narrative with green status reports until risks surface unexpectedly, missed milestones go unescalated, and pressure mounts. #ProjectManagement #VendorManagement https://t.co/PsZOEkogVW
Essential Reads to Master and Streamline Any System
Here are 8 books that'll fix your systems: Traction The Goal Clockwork Built to Sell The E-Myth Who Not How Work the System The Checklist Manifesto The Notion Beginner Manual What did I miss?
Tariff Chaos Year Review: Disappointing Results, Shifting Goalposts
Excellent review of our recent, chart-filled @CatoInstitute piece on the last year of US tariff chaos, with some also-excellent additional commentary on tariff fans' goalpost-moving, cherry-picking, & misdirection.
Three Startups in Six Months, Now Need Trusted Help
i launched 3 businesses in the last 6 months https://t.co/lTcrAhRMgx https://t.co/wFmKcg5583 https://t.co/r9ybVChxYV i reached the point where i now know i need help running them seems obvious in hindsight on top of everything else i am running. but it takes a lot of trust.
Trump's Tariffs Accelerated US Manufacturing Job Losses
A year ago, Trump proclaimed that “Liberation Day” would be "the day American industry was reborn." Thanks to Trump's tariffs, US manufacturing job losses accelerated, shedding 108,000 jobs in 2025. TARIFF MAN = HOW TO DESTROY AMERICA'S MANUFACTURING JOBS. https://t.co/3jvtsqZiBh
OpenAI Nears $1 Trillion Mark Among Elite Titans
Felt like a good day to remind ourselves that there 12 public companies with a market cap >$1T and are here are some high-level financials on them. With today's announcement, OpenAI is worth ~$0.9T. (Data from Gemini.) https://t.co/44feWVSf4X
Try, Fail, Eliminate: Progress Comes From Doing
Knowing what you don't want to do is just as valuable as knowing what you do. Pick a direction. Give it three months. If you like it, keep going. If you hate it, you've still eliminated something and that's progress....
White House Simplifies Tariffs, but 50% Rates Stay Punitive
After months of lobbying by companies that were unfairly hit by tariffs, the White House consolidated and simplified metals tariffs. But, tariffs remain SKY-HIGH at 50% on steel, aluminum, and copper. The admin's changes were only window dressing. Tariff rates remain punitive....
US Jobs Market Shifts From Steady Growth to Volatility
Taking the data at face value, the US labor market appears to have transitioned from a period of sustained, stable growth into a phase of significant volatility. Per the FT chart below, recent reports are characterized by sharp swings between job...
Identify True Demand: Is Your Product the Must‑Buy?
Market-qualifying question: Will the customer buy 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 no matter what? If no, this is a difficult market; you have to create demand. If yes, the questions are: Will it be you? Why? For whom?
Trust: The Underrated Business Asset You Must Build
Trust is the most underrated asset in business today. When companies are trusted, they gain loyalty from customers and employees, can raise money more cheaply, and launch new products more easily. But we don't teach people how to maximize trust....
Human Week: Collaboration Tue‑Thu, Personal Friday, AI 24/7
Company culture: No meetings on Monday. Tuesday-Thursday: in office collaboration and meetings time. Personal work on Fridays. Passion projects, take care of your kids. Make sure your mental health is solid. Your AI agents work 7 days a week.
Misaligned Culture and Goals Undermine Organizational Effectiveness
“Sustaining a regressive culture while trying to embed clear & appropriate goals/OKRs in ur org. is self-defeating. Such inconsistencies b/w the different elements of #workplaceeffectiveness never produce an effective team/org.” https://t.co/1xr0AzMdoT #leadership #management https://t.co/w2IcvzOrG5
Let Team Review PRs While Primary Agent Runs
What if instead of spinning up yet another parallel agent, you reviewed some of your team members' PRs while your primary agent is working? idk just a thought
OpenAI's Media Takeover Signals AI-Driven News Era
10 months ago, I predicted OpenAI would buy media companies. This week they did. 58K subscribers. Nine figures. Under their political strategy team. Without original journalism, AI is a snake eating its own tail. This is the new model. TBPN is the opening...
Half Global Sulfur Flows Through Hormuz, Fueling Industry
John Dizard nailed this one in The Institutional Risk Analyst w/ @rcwhalen: "Most, around half, of sulfur in the world goes through the Strait of Hormuz. You need sulfuric acid in order to produce copper, steel, nickel...you really need it to...
China's Money Printing Matches
Everyone focuses on U.S. money printing. But China has quietly been just as aggressive—if not more.
Amazon Launched Just After the Web, Started with Cash Orders
Amazon was founded in 1994, one year after the birth of worldwide web from @CERN. In 1995, Jeff Bezos spoke about customers mailing cash to @Amazon for book purchases. https://t.co/sk7gsFBNNr
US Regime Change Attempts Mostly Fail, Often Disastrous
I spoke with @MarioNawfal on regime changes: "Regime changes very rarely work... There have been about 70 regime change attempts by the US since WWII, & almost none have resulted in successful regime changes. The ones that ‘worked’ ended up in complete...
Capacity Glut Neutralizes Hormuz Shock, Rates Stall
Container Rates Stall as Capacity Glut Offsets Hormuz Shock. War. Geopolitics. Supply chains. Fill the ship with lower rates pricing game. https://t.co/Qli3djw5g9
Evolving an Iconic Vietnamese Institution Beats Starting Fresh
Crustacean has been shaping Vietnamese dining in San Francisco for 50+ years—and now it’s evolving. I sat down with Monique An to talk about what it actually takes to lead a legacy restaurant right now. What’s harder—building something new, or evolving something...
MIT Study Extends Timeline for AI Job Disruption
Nevermind the hysteria. New MIT research defines a longer timeline for AI's job impacts. AI capabilities will still threaten text-based work, but most workers may have more time to adapt than previously thought. https://t.co/YEvH4XoYHV via @ZDNET
Iran Refuses Pakistan Talks; Trump Demands More Time for Hormuz
Iran Unwilling To Meet US Negotiators In Pakistan, Talks At 'Dead End', As Trump Says 'A Little More Time' Needed To Open Hormuz: (ZeroHedge)
Distribution Beats Quality: Why Reach Trumps Content
The distribution mindset shift @MediaKing built a $50M media company from South Dakota with 19 employees. His biggest lesson from the early blogging days: "There were plenty of great blogs that didn't get read and plenty of average ones that did." Distribution wins...
Adding a Zero Doesn’t Change the Boss’s Offer
ME: *slides contract back* add another zero and you got yourself a deal BOSS: $17,000 ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟...
Unicorns Take Years, Not Quick Wins, Investors Overlook
One of my biggest pet peeves: investors who write off companies too soon. Building a unicorn takes YEARS, even when things go phenomenally well. While there are exceptions, most $100M+ rev/yr companies didn't get there fast. More >>
2026 Jobs Data Shows Early Improvement Over 2025
As crazy as this sounds, the jobs data has improved in 2026 compared to 2025 so far. @housingwire @sarahteresa6 #housing #realestate #economics #jobs #chartdaddy
Feb Job Gains Signal Recovery, Wage Growth Slows
The big jobs rebound (275k in Feb) is mostly a recovery from Jan's storms & strikes. Wage growth cooled, which is key. Labor market looks solid but normalizing. JobsReport
Red Lobster’s Collapse Reveals Elitist Contempt in Populism
Red Lobster did go bankrupt after a PE firm bought them. But it was also after that PE firm sold them to a non-PE company. There’s an elitist strain to economic populism where they have utter contempt for the people they’re...
Infrastructure Giants Buying Storytellers Repeat Past Failure
OpenAI (infrastructure) bought TBPN (storytellers) for low hundreds of millions. The founders gave up ad sales and editorial independence. I watched Viacom make this exact bet with XFire in 2006. The storytellers could not run the infrastructure business. Deja Vu...
Reprogramming Mindsets: The Core Trait for Founders, Operators, Hires
The single most important quality in a founder, a strong operator, and a hire: the ability to reprogram their mind and assumptions. https://t.co/q2Md2PWkj6
AI Speeds Internal Tools Into Profitable Side‑hustles
Jesus wow Ramp is SHIPPING Companies internal tools become things they turn into side-hustle businesses because AI lets them ship so fast. And Steer is interesting. It's a way to make your AI a super nerd about the thing you're super nerdy about
Prioritize Top 20% Accounts, Cut Low‑ROI Waste
Let's say you have 500 accounts. 100 have high spend potential. If you spend time equally across all 500? That's like a CMO spending ad budget on low-ROI campaigns. Move your "spend" to higher ROI areas. Find your top 20%: • Biggest revenue potential • Likeliest to...
Even Top Reviews Earn Barely‑noticeable Raises
When the office finds out you got "exceeds expectations" on your performance review with a 2.3% raise
Use a Closing‑Week Checklist to Prevent Last‑Minute Surprises
Founders: Create a 'Closing Week' checklist: - All stakeholders identified - Security reviews completed - Payment process confirmed - Implementation timeline agreed No surprises in the final yard.
Trump’s New Steel/Aluminum Tariffs: Expert Session Essential
Yesterday President Trump made major changes to tariffs for steel and aluminum imports. If you import products subject to Section 232 duties on steel or aluminum, you will not want to miss our expert session on those changes.
Spreads Peak Months After Recession Starts, Not Before
History says spreads peak 5-7 months after recessions start. Not before. By the time the NBER calls it, the move is done. $JOJO uses leading signals, not lagging labels. https://t.co/aEqM5MShko
Globalisation Ends, Economic Regionalisation Becomes New Norm
“Globalisation has come to an end while we see the trend of economic regionalisation” - Li Shufu, founder of @GeelyGroup. Bluntly articulated. This is the New World Order. The realisation & pivot is happening... Great piece by @KanaInagaki & @FT team. https://t.co/ofhYP4sF43
CEO Automates Life with AI‑Powered Lemon Pie Autopilot
The CEO of @brexHQ runs his company through a custom AI he built and named Lemon Pie. And I think it's the future of CEO productivity Think about the day job of a Fintech CEO. - Thousands of Slack channels. - Hundreds of...
Spending Remains Strong; Demand Destruction Not Yet Evident
Friday shoutout to @joebrusuelas, chief economist at RSM, who has been doing some of the best analysis of the war in Iran's economic impact. The key question now is: When does the oil price shock trigger demand destruction? Joe has a great...
Combine Product Management and Marketing for Cohesive Storytelling
Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing wires the messaging- the facts you want to communicate to customers- and gets the product...
Hire Debuggers, Not Just Perfect Coders
In code interviews, I'd prefer a candidate who has a few bugs and shows his ability to reason about test failures and resolve them, to someone who just writes flawless code. AI can write good code for interview questions. I...
OpenAI’s Funding Outpaces Most Nations’ Defense Budgets
OpenAI just raised more than most countries spend on defence. Here's what this means for the future of AI👇
Shared Observability Unites SOCs, DevOps, and Risk View
RT SOCs and DevOps will need shared observability for agents: data access, tool calls, MCP interactions, and risk levels in one view. #Security #DevOps @Star_CIO https://t.co/tRGwCPc4Mb
Growth, Niche, Simple Ops Boost RIA Sale Returns
This #WeekendReading: A recent study from Advisor Growth Strategies' 2026 RIA Deal Room Report finds that while RIA mergers and acquisitions activity continues to break records in terms of volume and valuations, not all sellers are necessarily able to cash in...
First Paycheck After Years of Bootstrapped Persistence
I got my first paycheck from one of my SaaS companies 🎉 Might not seem like a big deal, but I've been trying to make this work since 2020. I've poured thousands of hours and tens of thousands of my own money...
Gulf State Declines Leading Role in Mediation
The Gulf state told U.S. officials last week that it wasn't keen on playing a key role in the mediation or leading the efforts, according to the officials and some of the mediators.