The best games use cutting edge tech Cutting edge tech incorporates design from the best games Game Freak & Nintendo have known this for deacdes At the start of each main series @Pokemon game,there’s a chubby NPC who marvels at the era’s technology Here’s what he says 🧵👇🏽

Go to your neighborhood friendly LLM and ask for a story that will help you…

Being hated is not good for business. At some point corporate CSR went out the window. Instead companies try to convince you with “logic” that what theyre selling is soo netgood for society that CSR doesnt matter. Someone should make CSR sexy and effective again.

I once paid $3k on a time and Google Calendar optimization course. It has paid for itself many times over.

Earlier in my career, I believed maternity leave was a break because that’s how it was presented to me. This take went predictably viral because it surfaces resentment. I think the deeper issue underneath is invisibility. Early in my career as a strategy consultant, I watched senior women come back from maternity leave smiling and polished. There were beautiful family photos, grateful tones, and quick reassurances that everything was fine. At the time, I believed them. Looking back, I see how much effort went into making that season look contained and “acceptable” at work. And THAT is why people believe the distortion that maternity leave is a “break”. We generally treat the hardest life transitions as something to smooth over, downplay, or keep private in order to remain “professional.” It’s 2026, I’ve “made it” into senior leadership, and I don’t have to pretend: Postpartum is much less like a pause and more like a bingo card crossed with a craps table. You’re handed a stack of chips, and after birth, the chips they scatter across the board. You find out what you drew: Sleep deprivation. Physical recovery. Oversupply or undersupply. Baby feeding issues. Hormonal swings. Anxiety or depression. Inevitable medical issues. A house that never quite resets. Some people draw fewer hard squares while others draw many. Some people have family or paid support, others have none. No one controls the hand. But almost everyone draws something that makes postpartum and maternity leave genuinely hard. VERY little of that is visible at work. What shows up instead is generally silence and a return to “competence.” (My brain was fuzzy for six months after giving birth. Some days, it still is.) Because this labor stays hidden, it becomes easy to misread leave as rest. It also becomes easy for resentment to form around coverage and fairness. I’m genuinely grateful that things have changed in parts of the tech workplace since I had a child, especially compared to what those senior women navigated a decade ago. Because of where I work and the seniority I’ve earned, I’ve been able to be more honest about where I’m at. That safety is REAL progress. It’s also unevenly distributed, and many people still don’t have it. Takes like this one tend to emerge in environments where strain has nowhere to go and nowhere to be named. When systems rely on silent endurance, people start reacting to the version of reality they can see. When resentment shows up, it’s often aimed at individuals, but it’s responding to a story that’s been carefully curated. It’s a story where major transitions look calm, optional, and neatly contained. Lol. The real cost of keeping that story intact is that it makes everyone worse at designing work that can actually hold real human lives.

theres so many prominent late stage AI startups where if you spend just 2 minutes looking up the employees on linkedin, everybody claims to be the “head of growth” or “head of partnerships” like, really? at the same company? which one of you is the real deal?

Waitlists are one of the most seductive illusions in early-stage marketing and they can make ppl delusional You build a landing page, run some ads, and suddenly a few thousand people “sign up.” It looks impressive on a deck -- intent! demand! traction! -- but unless those names are warm, qualified, and nurtured, what you really have is a list of question marks. A bunch of randos. The number itself isn’t the problem; it's more what we *assume* it means. Waitlist signups feel like proof of interest, but they often reveal very little about behavior. Will those same people open your emails? Download your app? Pay? Most won’t. Most reaaallly dont gaf. The real signal in early growth isn’t who clicks “join.” It’s who pays, replies, or returns. Vanity metrics don’t lie, but they also don’t tell the truth or the whole picture.

He’s right. Spinning up apps is easier than ever. but the problem is that most of these products are disposable. The next wave of winners won’t just ship fast -- they’ll build depth, trust, and staying power otherwise we’re just filling our SaaS closets with junk.

One of my biggest worries about this country is that Americans are barely scraping by with only 14 hours of short-form video per day. I’m glad that this will solve that tragedy.