Since leaving Techstars in November, I've been rebuilding how I work from the ground up. Working for someone else meant using their tools, defaults, and opinions about how information should flow. Now I get to design my own again. Safari is where I spend a lot of my time. It's

Years ago, I ran a coding workshop with high school students on the South Side of Chicago. Two young women came up with an idea: a navigation app that didn't just show you the fastest route, it showed you the safest one. They already knew which streets to avoid at certain times.

The circus never left town. Elections. Documentaries. Trials. The AI debate. Sports. Political rage. Social media wars. Each one demands you pick a side. Feel something. Post something. While you're distracted, the future is being built by people who aren't. You might read

There's a film I come back to a lot. There Will Be Blood, by Paul Thomas Anderson. If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend checking it out. I won't spoil anything important. The first real dialogue doesn't come until fifteen minutes in. Before that, it's mostly Daniel Plainview

@jasonfried Congrats! What a journey. You @dhh have been a huge source of inspiration since 2006, and it's safe to say you've changed my life (directly and indirectly) at least 3 times along the way. I'm still grateful for you (and @shokuna) taking this broken-English email seriously:

The reason why I am independent and advocate a life-long career is because for me, "creating things" is no longer a job. That's why there is no retirement. Creating things is living. One more thing. In the game industry, there are very few people who have succeeded in becoming

Happy @Techstars_Chi demo day! Good luck 🍀 everyone! 🙌🏻 👏 @shokuna @bradschnitzer @1871tech is cheering you on

For those of you who want a shorter form of LEVERS….will publish regularly until we are through the entire book https://t.co/eFJrMbG13v cc: @codysimms @trevor_boehm @TroyHenikoff

First track for my new "chill synth" album is well under way! If you like the vibes of "Wake Up" from #MassEffect 3 and "Uncharted Worlds," you'll dig this album. Longer preview(s) coming soon, at https://t.co/5qQwzduCPH #synth #music #ambient

There are the rare 10x developers, yes, but the real thing to cultivate is the 10x environment. Make that common, and it's a boost like no other. (same applies to designers, writers, customer service, etc). https://t.co/IObXJjinrX

18) This is the time for companies with real businesses to shine. Fundraising plays second fiddle to customers, revenue, and sustainable growth & unit economics.

7) Lastly, for companies that are doing great, investors are funding these startups. The market isn't dead as people suggest. But, it's slow. Especially now in the middle of summer. If you don't need to raise right now, I'd punt until fall.

3) For people new to either startups or venture, these companies didn't seem "bad" because they were able to raise money. But it turns out that great companies are not the ones that can raise. Great cos are the ones that can get customers repeatably at scale and sustainably.

In product development for manufacturing, gross margin is one of the important constraints up front. In software, we aren’t used to thinking about margin because the marginal cost of duplication is effectively zero. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have production costs! While we

Couple recent examples. In both, founders had fit and scale but faced flattening growth and increasing CAC. Company A saw that the product team (which had gotten too big) was polishing edges, not making an impact. When the founders envisioned a new product direction, they spun

Sales or stalking? Seems pretty obvious.

@CSTopinion is right — Johnson Admin Transition Report is unmoored from good governance fundamentals. (Not unique to this especially governance green new administration.) So what to do about that? CST doesn’t quite say, so I will. City charter.

You really only compete with one thing: Your costs. It's not what they're doing. It's not their marketshare. It's not their growth numbers. It's not their ads everywhere. Make your own business work. It doesn't matter what everyone else is doing. https://t.co/x1jjfMsMty

"To have all of this come together, with Rails World, with the Rails Foundation, in the year we'll celebrate the 20th anniversary of the framework, is just icing on the birthday cake. This is an exciting time to be part of the Ruby on Rails ecosystem."

"Here's everything you need to know about..." advice always seems be missing something. Advice has an expiration date. More thoughts on being careful about who's advice you follow: https://t.co/BMxsj79G7j