Many founders think, with a sense of self-satisfaction, that they are addicted to work. In reality, they are addicted to the feeling of doing work. This is an important difference.

Outreach is like an infinite depth pool. There's essentially no limit on the number of conversations to have. If you can’t find prospects, you’re not trying hard enough or being creative enough.

If in doubt when coding, don't use AI. AI is a multiplier. If you don't know what you want to do, it will multiply your doubt.

Claude Code is a waste of time for anything other than building greenfield.

Demographics are destiny

With programming, it's easy to feel very productive making something that's entirely worthless.

Someone stole our idea + evals are simpler than you think toms-newsletter-fe9564.beehi…

'consistency' v 'working on the wrong thing' is a continual tension for builders.

Shorter messages = Better messages

Great to see my article on the 'simplest way to add auth to Next.js with BetterAuth' featured in Next.js Weekly! tomdekan.com/articles/google…

💡I spent money generating videos with Google's Veo3 + software engineers are not artisans toms-newsletter-fe9564.beehi…

An advanced system is a series of simple systems. Trying to make an advanced system from the start gives you a broken system.

Here's my latest guide: The simplest way to add Google sign-in to your Next.js app ✍️ photondesigner.com/articles/…

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I'm writing a guide on the simplest way to add Google signin to Next.js. Here's a preview of what the demo will look like. I'm finishing off the tutorial and will send it out in my newsletter this week (toms-newsletter-fe9564.beehi…).

In LLMs are Making Me Dumber (vvvincent.me/llms-are-making…), Vincent Cheng argues that outsourcing too much thinking to Claude/Gemini leaves your own mental muscles flabby. My take: using LLMs gives us higher leverage, like other technology. Just like I’m dependent on a calculator to add big numbers, or a knife to cut bread (instead of ripping it apart with my hands), using technology lets us do more. Dependency is the cost. I think the key point is agency: outsourcing all learning and decision-making could cause us not to know what we want. Let’s avoid that

⚡5-min embeddings guide toms-newsletter-fe9564.beehi…

Here's a demo of using Claude with an MCP (@firecrawl0) to answer questions using our website's software reviews Claude recommended @pipedrive for me #MCP