Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is…. Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard?. A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”. Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32)

From flash sales to flash trips! . This is what a travel influencer does when they post a link to follow their travels in our app. We have @vercel and @supabase flex room with capacity spend limits. But it's been very hands-off, we just absorb the influencer spikes.

Programming at 53 hits different. I debug with the peaceful focus of a monk and the relentless spirit of someone who once defragmented hard drives for fun.

I’ll be at the Ottawa @supabase meetup this week. User for 2.5 years, production app with 80k users. Happy to show and tell.

Neat to be featured as app of the day in 100+ countries. Apple said we’re already in top 1% of travel apps in terms of paying users. Caused 2x signup spike but hard to differentiate between App Store traffic and our own socials promoting the app of the day having the impact. 🤷

Everyone is pronouncing Claude wrong.

Fighting hard to remove "please" and "sorry" from my prompts. Just too 🇨🇦🤷🏻‍♂️.

While is great, it's also a peak anxiety format for introverts. So many events, so many places. Can I just hang out in one place and code/meet people? I'm trying to work out how to make the best of my time in TO? @skanwar @fahdananta.

Does Canada have a CTO? What's their plan? There's a lot to do, my friends in the government said "good luck, it's a mess and nothing will change". Is that true?.

A friend asked how I’m doing— I said, “very alive.”.After 40 days at sea and losing someone very close, you work out that life isn’t just for for understanding, it’s for feeling—sadness, fear, peace, boredom, anger, wonder, accomplishment. Alive.

Haha… I hope they aren’t reading our chat history 😬

30 years in the making. Atlantic crossing ✅: South Africa > Caribbean. 6k miles or 10,000km. A lot happened, learned a lot, part of me didn't want to stop. It's like starting a company, the lows are low (we're going to die) and the highs high (we made it alive). Feel so alive.

RT @siavashg: How it started.How it’s going

What stupid clickbait. Sounds like the horse shit collectors from the early century telling kids not to get into the transportation field.

. 3 layers of redundancy. A Gamin InReach for ditch bag and Iridium Go. If Peplinks die, switch to orig Starlink router and power supply. If all those die, switch to Iridium, and if we're in the life raft portable solar array and Garmin InReach.

Leg 2 underway. sailing to Brazil. Spent decent time designing our internet setup onboard. Multi-wan bonding and 48v PoE injectors for Starlinks. Board meetings, programming, and watching nhl playoffs in 4k while in the middle of the South Atlantic.

Have a great day app developers. Especially the “or, save 30%” button we will be adding to our paywall.

Hi St Helena island.

Day 6: South Atlantic, 400nm from St Helena island.

Night navigation tech (sound on)