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Writing Rhythms of Scale | Building ExactTempo

NJ, USA
Joined November 2010
fwiw, I do have access to my phone number in my account.
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Hey @Support, I created my X account with a work email I no longer have access to. I want to update my account to my personal email, but X is requiring me to verify my old email with a code. Appreciate your help and support!
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Yes! 🙌
I am increasingly finding the need to buy certain books within Claude / ChatGPT so it can use the book for context when I ask it to. Making this frictionless in the UI would be amazing.
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Culture is math, not magic. No Negatrons × Human Connection → Hire well. Fire fast. → Make space for real connection. → Let it compound over time. Just published a new Rhythms of Scale with a world-class operator who’s designed this formula. And it works.
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Shipping culture like code? A CEO I spoke with last week actually does it: - Codified culture playbook - “Feature requests” from employees - Prioritized backlog - Launches with changelogs Not posters. Not platitudes. Culture as a product. Designed. Measurable. Improving. More leaders should think this way.
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If you're scaling with intention, this one's for you. Read + subscribe here: rhythmsofscale.substack.com/…
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Chad’s lens: “If you're unsure what to do, think about how we’d solve this if it were a bug in our product—because our company is our most important product.”
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What Thoughtbot does differently: - Publishes a living company playbook - Launches internal changes like product features - Reserves Fridays to improve the business - Refreshes cadence before it gets stale
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I spoke with @cpytel, CEO of @thoughtbot . For 22 years, they’ve scaled by treating their company like a product. And it shows.
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Most leaders obsess over their product roadmap. But what if the company had one too? Culture. Communication. Cadence. Built and improved with intention. That’s what I unpack in the first edition of Rhythms of Scale 👇
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If you’re building—or rebuilding—a company, I hope it gives you new useful tools. And if you’ve built a rhythm worth sharing, I’d love to hear it. Subscribe here: rhythmsofscale.substack.com
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The first post is live. And tomorrow, I’m sharing a conversation with Chad Pytel (CEO of Thoughtbot) on how they’ve scaled for 22 years by treating their company like a product.
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Rhythms of Scale is a bi-weekly newsletter about the real operating systems behind great companies: → Communication → Culture → Cadence All drawn from the lived experiences of CEOs.
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These lessons exist. But they’re scattered—buried in biographies, investor decks, or passed quietly from one founder to another. So I started something to surface them.
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