I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me for the velocity of the world right now. There is more content than ever, yet somehow less signal. The volume goes up and the usefulness goes down. Founders keep telling me they feel behind even when they spend hours online. They bounce between feeds, tabs, channels, and summaries that repeat each other. They want clarity without drowning in noise, and they want it without losing half their day. I love curating. I’ve always had a habit of collecting the ideas that actually move founders forward. Insights that shift how you think. Tools that save real time. Patterns that reveal what is coming next. Not the performative stuff that does well on social, but the kind of thinking you remember six months later because it solved something that mattered. A weekly cadence used to be enough. You could wait for the world to settle, pick the most important ideas, then share them. That rhythm worked when the pace of change had natural pauses. Those pauses are gone. The terrain moves underneath you every day. Founders feel it in hiring, in product decisions, in how markets twist, and in how quickly new tools reshape their advantage. What founders need now is a reliable filter. A filter built by someone who has already spent years absorbing the best thinking, testing the claims, comparing the ideas, and stripping out what fails when it meets reality. The groundwork is already done. What remains is the distilled signal. A daily format lets me surface a tight set of links that matter. Not a flood of headlines. A focused selection of ideas, insights, and examples that cut through the noise. You get clarity without the endless scroll. You get perspective without the hunt. You get the right signal at the moment you need it. I’ve spent years in conversations where decisions defined the next chapter of a company, and I’ve watched how breakthroughs form while confusion spreads faster than the truth. That experience shapes everything I share because founders deserve guidance rooted in reality, not recycled narratives. The world is not slowing down. So neither will I.
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AI Music Prediction I got skewered for in 2019: AI will play a big role in entertainment and design — music and entertainment will be plentiful and personalized for you and your mood (TechCrunch; 2019). We’d have custom, AI-generated soundtracks...
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In this video, we upgrade our simple BM25 search engine into a Hybrid Search system using BM25 + vector embeddings with reciprocal rank fusion. What you will learn: ✔️ What hybrid search means ✔️ How to add embedding fields ✔️ How to use HNSW...
💬 Excited to share that I was recently quoted in this recent article from The Digital Project Manager exploring the real challenges PMs face when bringing AI into their work. The big takeaway? AI isn’t hard because of the tech...
Solo founders: stop betting it all on one idea. Run a portfolio of 3 small bets. Pick fast. Validate faster. Here's the playbook: 1) The rule - 3 small bets > 1 big bet. - Target: $1–3k MRR each. 2) Pick bets - Reachable audience. - Already knows the...
Everyone wants the $5M brand playbook. But most of you are skipping the $50k phase: • Learning your market • Understanding angles • Making the product actually sell Earn your scale.
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Hot take: User onboarding is not about education. Most onboarding flows try to teach users about different product features. They shouldn't. Instead, they should get users to experience value as fast as possible. Here's what happens in most cases: You...
The 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝘄𝗲𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 once again underlined how openness in IP and sustained R&D investment can unlock the next wave of digital innovation. Among the Top Ten Inventions presented this year is the 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲-𝗨𝗽 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗮-𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗣𝗼𝗗...

Google Ai gave an answer this time without just ghosting with a Delete-convo-add .. next question will start a fresh chat. https://t.co/JaiWURMZMx
Here's the rub. Let's say all the states ban AI toltally except for one. That state would end up out producing all the others 10x-1 within a decade. And possibly 1,000x-to 1. And I bet that the math even supports a...
AI models are getting stronger, but their confidence still grows faster than their certainty. More parameters expand what the system can talk about, not what it can truly verify. The space of possible answers grows faster than the ground beneath...
AI models are getting stronger, but their confidence still grows faster than their certainty. More parameters expand what the system can talk about, not what it can truly verify. The space of possible answers grows faster than the ground beneath those...
It’s clear that AI agents are going to get better and better at coding. We’re going to be able to give them much bigger tasks, and reviewing that work will get easier and easier over time (both due to reliability,...
@PAstynome When World Models really show up in spatial computing devices (in about two years) it will get far worse. And when brain computer interfaces show up it will get far worse again. So, we need to figure out addiction issues now.
I keep telling people this but they don’t believe me. “you're not hiring for roles anymore. you're hiring for breadth + depth, taste, systems thinking, learning velocity. 5 people who can work across code/design/product beat 20 specialists coordinating handoffs. the new bottlenecks...
@zephyr_z9 TPUs are much more stable on 8 bit training (aqt etc) than NVIDIA chips at massive scale Previous gen was a bit sensitive on topology but looks like less of an issue for ironwood
Following everyone in AI does makes the For You feed much, much smarter. Unfortunately for you X doesn’t let you follow 31,000 people. I wish you could see mine. I put them all into lists so you can get some of the...
@pagilgukey @JohnThilen @dwarkesh_sp @ilyasut Yes. With Codex I meant GPT-5.1-Codex versus GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
@ScienceUnderSec Inspiring work. Let's put all the federal datasets on HF to unleash open and collaborative AI for science!
@ToriiRowe Do you use bid caps with brands that have high AOV / variable AOV? I’ve found tROAS to do really well in this case but curious if you’ve ever tested
The dentists' office of the future. Here today at @TeamCloudberry. Customer satisfaction numbers are way up. Welcome to the automated dentists' office. The AI does all the grunge tasks other than putting their fingers in people's mouths. Customer service. Tracking of everything....
In some way, scaling is holding back progress. And either way these mega-size clusters are going to be useful. Right now, most of the capacity is used to do a crazy large run + serving existing customers. It would be good...
Today's big model release is FLUX.2 from @bfl_ml. It's like Christmas before Thanksgiving lately, isn't it?
Wanted to buy a product last week, Forced to talk to an SDR first. He sent me his Calendly … and never followed up when I didn’t pick a convenient time for him. Sale lost. Honestly, any decent AI is better than this human. AI...
My article on Topline on GTM AI. Phase I has been about quantity. Phase II is about doing better. https://lnkd.in/g5XZPD2a
Office Hours: GTM Leadership in the AI Era: Pricing, Hiring, and Compensation Thursday, December 11 5:30–7:30 PM PDT As AI-native companies scale, GTM leaders are being forced to rethink long-standing assumptions about pricing, hiring, incentives, and how revenue organizations should operate in a...
Office Hours: GTM Leadership in the AI Era: Pricing, Hiring, and Compensation Thursday, December 11 5:30–7:30 PM PDT As AI-native companies scale, GTM leaders are being forced to rethink long-standing assumptions about pricing, hiring, incentives, and how revenue organizations should...
Record what you're already doing and turn it into content. You don’t need a big production team to start building trust. Every conversation you have could be a content goldmine. - Record your side of a sales call - Capture...
Advice about how to improve visiblity, engagement and ROI on LinkedIn is always a good idea. That's why I'm revisiting this liveblog of a presentation from Jessica Cross and Baaber Malik from LinkedIn: 3 Key Marketing Plays for Full Funnel...

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used google's new IDE for 5 minutes, was impressed, hit what I thought was a paywall but it's not a paywall, you just can't give google money? I don't understand https://t.co/cKUTuUQNsD
Marketing is the new bottleneck. I tossed that out as a quick thought. The replies came fast. The private messages went deeper. People wanted to hear more and understand exactly what I meant, so I turned it into a thread....
@w3whq @kenwarner GANs were 2015ish, Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models were 2020ish, aka 5 years later. Timeline expectations are crazy these days!
After listening to @ilyasut I am even more convinced we won’t know when AGI gets here. But liked how he predicted humans will change as AI gets better. Economic boom times arrive as more people get into automating their businesses and...
@JohnThilen @dwarkesh_sp @ilyasut In addition, and that’s the important point, I think GPT-5 is smaller than GPT-4.5.
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Any talented Product Managers with experience in MarTech/SalesTech want to work together? I'm building a new product (currently in stealth mode) and looking to make our first hire on the product side after the holidays. This person: • Loves the...
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@GiorgioMantova @dwarkesh_sp @ilyasut I’d say this is the jump from last gen to current gen, but I think the argument is that further improvements will fizzle out in the next gen if we keep scaling pre-training. Ie it won’t give...