o4-mini models were 100% trained on a senior eng.

every time I ask it to do something it says: “lol 4 sure, sounds fun, good luck!”

In honor of Bryan Johnson’s "DON’T DIE" mantra—and the looming recession—we’ve launched the limited-edition "DON’T CHURN" shirt.

Winning new customers is nice, retaining them is essential.

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You don’t want to win—you want the shortcut. But the shortcut is the punishment. Even if you succeed overnight, you’ll wake up tomorrow forced to prove it wasn’t a fluke. And you won’t be ready. You never built the foundation, never learned to love the grind—you were too busy chasing the spotlight.

TIL Purell and other hand sanitizers don’t kill 99.9% of all known germs.

It kills 99.9% of the germs they decided to test it on.

Deepseek is a wild experiment

Gf leaves me cute notes ☺️

Value based pricing is the future 🙃

humans, companies, products, investors, relationships, it's all just balancing incentives

Can pharma do Black Friday deals? I’d stock up

IRL founder scaling up

American capitalism takes no days off.

Fun fact: the magic number for “random” rewards is about 3%.

Contrary to popular belief, adding friction can boost user retention.

When we talk about “good design,” we usually mean making things simpler, reducing steps, and focusing on time-to-value. But I’ve helped companies boost their month-one retention from 10% to 90% by doing the opposite.

Startups are fluctuating between stress and anxiety.

Anxiety when things aren't going well, and there's ambiguity about what to do.

Stress when they are, and you don't have control over how much time you have to do it.

I got fired.

My boss pulled me aside and said, “You’re not giving enough status updates.” I replied, “I can either do the work you hired me to do or spend time writing status updates. I plan on doing the former.” He paused and said, “I’d rather you do the latter.”

That moment was a wake-up call.

This should be illegal for Apple to do after they made it non upgradable.

This is peak capitalism. Ads while pumping gas… on the nozzle. Think the gas is cheaper?

If you're a founder and this isn't your alarm clock song, ngmi