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Marcus built a memorial chatbot because staying close to loss felt safer than silence. The rest of us keep repeating the same prompt, hoping the ending changes.

The Authenticity Rebellion: Resisting the AI Echo Chamber: The Flood Has Arrived Auto-generated blog posts. Podcast transcripts turned into Twitter threads.

The Founder Pay Gap: Why VCs Undercompensate the CEOs Who Built the Company: Let’s say you’re a founder CEO. You took the risk.

A while back, I came across a hiring philosophy from Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, that stopped me cold.

Stop making excuses for passive-aggressive managers. They are not misunderstood introverts or conflict-averse leaders. They are parasites destroying your team from within.

Annual performance reviews are a failure theater that helps no one. Here's what actually works.

"This isn't what we asked for." Five words that strike dread into every engineering team. Five words that signal a fundamental breakdown in the engineering-p...

The Executive Trap I've seen it happen a dozen times: A brilliant engineer becomes CTO and suddenly decides their job is "managing the engineering organization..."

The product management profession has a cowardice problem. Most PMs will build anything a loud customer demands rather than face an uncomfortable conversation.

In the decidedly fast-paced world of product management, even breakfast needs a framework. After extensive user research (asking my colleagues on Slack), mul...

In my last post, I argued against perfectionism in startup environments. Today, I want to explore the other side of that coin: when quality really matters, a...

It's been exactly three months since I returned to San Francisco, and I'm finally starting to feel like I'm settling into a new rhythm.

Remote work is great for lifestyle optimization. It's terrible for building world-changing companies. If you want to build something that matters, San Francisco is non-negotiable.

The Weight We Carry There's a peculiar heaviness to modern existence. We wake each morning already bearing the invisible weight of emails unopened, messages...