Embracing My Micromanagement Flaws While Building Uniform Team Culture
Yesterday was a horrible #buildinpublic day I got rinsed by 100s of engineers for being a micromanager I was defensive and overwhelmed, and trying to explain my own preferences for how Senja should be run I know I am not perfect and am working on myself But I also trying to build a tiny company where every team member works in the same way, and there are no exceptions for engineers I need to do a lot of reflecting and have already been working on my need for control with my therapist for several months That said I also think it's okay to have a working style many people would hate, even if it scares away certain talent Senja has always operated like a sports team where each Linear issue is rapidly being passed between team members like a ball Deep work is part of the day but typically we communicate beforehand that you will be out for x hours Even when working on an issue alone people are expected to document what they're doing regularly. Why? -> It produces better work when you're reflecting -> It cultivates high energy -> It stops people from asking what you're doing -> It reduces the need for meetings -> It makes sure no one else is blocked -> It allows others to take over the issue -> It allows me to understand how you think -> It gives the AI context I am being told to remove this expectation but I think this style is something I want to maintain but with a lighter touch and much slower ramp up You can also see this style in my own marketing work Document as you go
Toxic Culture Costs Firms Billions; Fix It Now
Toxic culture kills small businesses. Stress, gossip, and hostility cut output by 20% and drive turnover that cost U.S. firms $223B in five years. Leaders who ignore bad behavior fuel burnout, distrust, and exits. You set the tone through direct feedback, clear roles,...
Build Resilience: Prioritize Buffers Over Perfect Plans
Our system isn’t broken. It’s just being tested by real life. Steve Jobs once said deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. In this week’s episode of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast, we unpack what...
CEOs Must Align, Not Operate: The Key to Scale
The CEO’s job isn’t to run the company. It’s to align it. Operations can be delegated. Alignment cannot. A CEO stuck in execution becomes an operator. A CEO who aligns vision, strategy, people, and incentives builds scale. Execution is the engine. Alignment is the steering wheel. Drive...
Avoid 10 Pitfalls to Rescue Your Strategy Execution
Your strategy execution is failing: here is why- https://t.co/elZ3WF6N7v Fix it in 2026. Easy if you avoid these 10 pitfalls.
Introducing the Gwenchmarks Manifesto: Learn Benchmark Mastery
Folks asked me "what's your plan for gwenchmarks"? At first, it was a joke. But... teaching people how to plan, execute and read benchmarks is a good goal. So I wrote The Gwenchmarks Manifesto as a start. Still a bit...
Avoid Single-Metric Focus: It Creates Blind Spots
Staying too focused on one metric creates blind spots. While it’s not necessarily a “balance” -- because they’re not equally important -- there isn’t “one metric to rule them all.” https://t.co/IwJzk6iCpu
AI Value Lies in Orchestrated Workflows, Not Tools
This “Top 15 AI Tools Everyone Must Use” list is useful — but the real value isn’t the tools. It’s the operating model behind them. A few strategic takeaways 👇 1️⃣ Tools cluster around workflows, not roles Notice the pattern:...
Design Your Ideal Week, Master Time Blocking
Your future self is shaped by how you use this week. Design your ideal week template. Master time blocking. Regain control of communication. Two sessions. Real implementation. Real change. Step into it. Enrol today. https://t.co/E53E31bsZG https://t.co/Plxs2td6oi
Misusing AI Is Riskier Than Ignoring It
Using AI wrong is now more dangerous than not using it at all. That should terrify you. Most early stage founders think the risk is moving too slow with AI. The real risk is moving fast in the wrong direction. Here are the...
Weekly Reflection: 10 Questions to Shape a Better Week
10 questions I ask myself at the end of each week (to set up a better week ahead) 1️⃣ What did I do this week that actually mattered to me? 2️⃣ Where did my time go that I didn’t intend it to? 3️⃣ What...
Perplexity Launches OpenClaw: AI Operating System for Complex Work
🚨 Perplexity just dropped their own OpenClaw version and it changes how AI actually works. Not a chatbot. Not an agent. A complete operating system for complex work. I gave it a single prompt about a $10M equity portfolio. Here's how:↓ https://t.co/AiDbotnpWf
Match Tasks to Time, Not More Work
If your to-do list feels overwhelming, it doesn’t mean you’re failing. It just means you haven’t matched your tasks with real, available time yet. Productivity isn’t about doing more. It’s about choosing wisely. When you align your list with your calendar and your priorities,...
AI Film Workflow Unveiled: A Must‑Study Blueprint
The behind-the-scenes of an AI film workflow is something most creators never share. From idea → experiment → production pipeline, all of it is now public. This is worth studying.
Balanced OKR Ownership Drives Alignment and Empowerment
If your CEO sets all the OKRs… You don’t have alignment. You have cascading a mandate. If teams set OKRs in isolation, you don’t have empowerment. You have fragmentation. The best approach is nuanced: https://t.co/IwsxuUiNa0
From MIT MITEF to Outthinker Summit: Reuniting Innovators
We met in 2009 through MIT’s MITEF program. Now we’re spending the next two days at the @Outthinker Network Strategy Summit. @scaleupwithjen Grateful for brilliant minds and even better friends. #Strategy #Leadership #Innovation #Outthinker #BusinessStrategy https://t.co/SJsXWrUwzP
Procrastination Is Vague Tasks, Not Laziness—Define First Step
I used to think procrastination was laziness. But it's really just an unclear next action. If a task feels heavy, it’s too vague. The solution is to define the first mechanical step: Literally like this: 1. Open file. 2. Write headline. 3. Outline bullets.
Early Bets Win; Amazon’s Late Entry Costs Billions
Early positioning beats late capital every time. Amazon just invested $50 billion in OpenAI for 6 percent ownership and distribution rights. Microsoft invested $13.8 billion starting in 2019 and owns 23.5 percent with exclusive IP, revenue sharing, and API control locked through...
Companies Rebrand Routine Restructuring as ‘AI’ Overhype
Block built two parallel company structures during COVID and is now collapsing them. That's a management correction, not an AI story. Worth watching which other companies use "AI restructuring" as branding for decisions they would've made anyway. Expect a...
Efficiency Revolution: Companies Will Trim Workforce by Half
Could you operate your company with half the people? Jack Dorsey’s announcement yesterday, reducing Block’s headcount from 10,000 to 6,000, should provoke this question in every management team. The stock surged 24%. Dorsey’s memo framed it as inevitable : Within...
New Ideas Must Prove Two Benefits or Stay Ignored
When you put a project on hold for a new idea, ask yourself, How would this make my original course of action easier or more effective? If you can't immediately think of two convincing ways, it's probably a distraction.
Procrastination Can Be Rational Amid Unclear Goals
Procrastination is often a perfectly rational reaction to a situation with unclear direction and uncertain payoff.
AI Success Demands Dedicated Agent Management Teams
To Thrive in the AI Era, Companies Need Agent Managers https://t.co/5kEKrzEC7v [Reg Req] #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/UUV6jamuJD
Time‑Based Productivity Balances Ambition and Personal Life
Ambition and personal time are not enemies. Time-based productivity helps you create boundaries that protect your energy while still driving results. Work well. Rest well. Live fully. Enrol now and build your sustainable system. https://t.co/E53E31bsZG https://t.co/HtWmQNUzZD
True Strategy Demands Choosing, Not Embracing Contradictory “Both”
ICYMI: Fresh new article dropped: The Opposite Test: "Good design" isn't strategic because "bad design" was never smart. But “all-in-one” vs “small core + ecosystem” is real because both result in beloved, successful products. If both sides work, "both" is incoherent. “Strategy” means making...
Inertia Poisons Judgment, Halting Progress.
From Clouded Judgement: The Poison of Inertia https://lnkd.in/g_HwrFac
AI Turns Heavy Work Into Scalable Advantage
The graveyard isn't full of SaaS companies. It's full of "asset-light" companies that confused information with truth. Carvana beat Beepi. DoorDash killed Grubhub. The winner was always the one willing to do the dirty work. Now AI makes "heavy" infinitely scalable. That changes...
Future CEOs Will Favor Small, High‑Impact Teams
the size of a public ceo’s workforce is shifting from being a flex if large to a flex if small. the next few years of refactoring will be significant (and seat-based models will shift to value-based), but I also think...
Notice Urges, Reset Focus with Tiny Actions
How to regain focus (Hint: The trick isn’t resisting distractions.) Most people think focus is about gritting your teeth or finding the next productivity hack. But both approaches often make things worse. Why? Hacks create a constant chase for the “perfect system,” which turns...
True Focus Means Single‑tasking, No Distractions, Deep Work
What real focus looks like: - One task only - No tab hopping - Notifications off - Timed deep work - Phone out of reach - Silence when needed - Boredom without escape - Finish before switching - Protect peak hours - Log off at night Stop feeding the distractions.
MinIO's Rise and Fall: From Darling to Cautionary Tale
Another interesting story #TGIF 🤷♀️ How MinIO went from open source darling to cautionary tale https://t.co/2AlN7GTWKp #OpenSource #FridayVibes #Software
Meetings without Decisions Drain Energy; Leaders Must Intervene
When nothing happens, it is the greatest drain on human energy. Are these familiar to you? 1. You spend hours in a meeting and nothing happens. No decision. No clarity. No outcome. 2. You traveled across the world and never got to the...
Fix the Root, Not Just the Symptom
You can fix symptoms, but if you ignore the root cause, it returns. In business and life, we chase quick fixes because they feel like progress. But fast isn’t finished if you repeat it next week. A Band-Aid on a deep wound...
Small Teams Offer Growing Long-Term Advantages
the advantages of keeping a team - and company - small will continue to grow
Distraction Erodes Deep Work Continuity, Not Just Time
The real cost of distraction isn’t the you lose. It's the depth of the work that breaks. And every time you tap back into the deep work, there's a cost for re entry. Continuity > duration.
Organic Surge: 307 Signups & New Editing Features
⚡️ WEEKLY VLOG 02 @ @ChoppityAI Founders are never truly satisfied with the speed of shipping, but looking back at this week... we’ve had some absolute bangers. We hit an all-time high of 295 signups in a single day (We broke...
Eliminate Packages, Deliver Custom Feel with Systemized Backend
I completely deleted "packages" from my offerings , my clients still feel like they're getting custom support but in the back end it's still productized and systemized and seamless for my team to deliver
Your 6‑figure Support Won’t Get You to 7 Figures
It's okay to admit that the support that brought you to your first 6 figures won't bring you to 7 figures. You need an operations team who doesn't flinch when you say margin compression , understands how to handle revenue...
Code Review Bench Accelerates Agent Evaluation with Real PR Data
Measuring how well coding agents perform is often one of the biggest things that slows progress. Code Review Bench helps by using two checks: - A controlled offline benchmark - An online behavior test using results from 200,000 real pull requests
Get Kimi K2.5 Free for 48 Hours—No Credit Waste
Stop burning your own API credits just to prototype. Kilo is letting you use Kimi K2.5 for free for the next 48 hours.
Avoid Discount Pricing: Choose Full Price or Free
The worst price you can charge is a discount. You’re not cheap enough to win on price. You’re not expensive enough to signal expertise at a premium. You’re in the middle, where nobody shops. There are two prices that work: 1️⃣ Full price. You charge...
Stripe’s $159B Success: Craft, Talent, Obsession, Leadership
Gamma Co-Founder Grant Lee spotlights the core principles behind Stripe’s $159B rise in a comprehensive breakdown of its business philosophy. The thread explores how craft, talent density, customer obsession, and decisive leadership compound over time. In partnership with Stripe, the full...
Growth Stems From Self‑Running Business, Not Hustle
Growth doesn’t come from hustling harder. It comes from designing a business that runs itself.
Roam Builds Virtual Office for Future Collaboration and Events
pretty wild what @howard + the @roam team have painstakingly built, iteration by iteration, to enable the virtual office of the future; now empowering modern companies to host virtual events, enable spontaneity, humans to work together (w/ agents, too), and...
Stop Glorifying Stress: Prioritize Kindness and Boundaries
Entrepreneurs burn out because they treat stress like a badge of honor. Cash flow pressure, hard calls, and long hours drain your focus and judgment. Schedule fun, train hard, sleep, write your thoughts down, and set work hours you respect. When you practice...
You Dictate What Customers Deem Important
You wonder why customers fixate on certain metrics, output, results, or even features when those aren't important. But you're the one putting those in front of them. And they think you know what you're doing. So they assume it's important.
Spend $20 on AI, Earn $500K: 5 Rules
I pay $20/month for AI. It generates $500K in revenue. The secret to 2,000x returns? These 5 rules.
A Friction‑free System Brings Clarity and Calm
The right system removes friction. Less mental clutter. Fewer last-minute scrambles. More clarity on what to do today. If you’re ready for structure without overwhelm, this is it. Reserve your spot now. https://t.co/E53E31bsZG https://t.co/YdRFXuouBK
Hire High‑caliber Talent, Then Step Back
Stop trying to do everything yourself. Hire people with: • High energy • High integrity • High work ethic • High intelligence And then leave them the f*ck alone. Who you do something with > what you do.
Switch to Requestly: Local API Client Beats Postman
Holy moly... I just found the API client that actually replaced Postman for me. It's called Requestly and it runs completely local without touching a cloud server. No login. No bloat. No subscription creep. Now is the best time to ditch cloud-dependent API...