Jason Fried Congrats! What a journey. You DHH have been a huge source of inspiration since 2006, and it's safe to say you've changed my life (directly and indirectly) at least 3 times along the way. I'm still grateful for you (and Neal Sáles-Griffin) taking this broken-English email seriously:

The reason why I am independent and advocate a life-long career is because for me, 'creating things' is no longer a job. That's why there is no retirement. Creating things is living. One more thing. In the game industry, there are very few people who have succeeded in becoming

Happy Techstars Chicago Accelerator demo day! Good luck 🍀 everyone! 🙌🏻 👏 Neal Sáles-Griffin Brad Schnitzer 1871 is cheering you on

For those of you who want a shorter form of LEVERS….will publish regularly until we are through the entire book linkedin.com/pulse/understa… cc: 𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚜 施俊挺 Trevor Boehm Troy Henikoff

First track for my new 'chill synth' album is well under way! If you like the vibes of 'Wake Up' from #MassEffect 3 and 'Uncharted Worlds,' you'll dig this album.

Longer preview(s) coming soon, at samhulick.bandcamp.com/follow_me

#synth #music #ambient

There are the rare 10x developers, yes, but the real thing to cultivate is the 10x environment. Make that common, and it's a boost like no other. (same applies to designers, writers, customer service, etc).

dev.37signals.com/the-10x-develo…

18) This is the time for companies with real businesses to shine.

Fundraising plays second fiddle to customers, revenue, and sustainable growth & unit economics.

7) Lastly, for companies that are doing great, investors are funding these startups. The market isn't dead as people suggest.

But, it's slow. Especially now in the middle of summer. If you don't need to raise right now, I'd punt until fall.

3) For people new to either startups or venture, these companies didn't seem 'bad' because they were able to raise money.

But it turns out that great companies are not the ones that can raise. Great cos are the ones that can get customers repeatably at scale and sustainably.

In product development for manufacturing, gross margin is one of the important constraints up front. In software, we aren’t used to thinking about margin because the marginal cost of duplication is effectively zero. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have production costs!

While we

Couple recent examples. In both, founders had fit and scale but faced flattening growth and increasing CAC.

Company A saw that the product team (which had gotten too big) was polishing edges, not making an impact. When the founders envisioned a new product direction, they spun

Sales or stalking? Seems pretty obvious. linkedin.com/posts/jason-fr…

Sun-Times Opinion is right — Johnson Admin Transition Report is unmoored from good governance fundamentals. (Not unique to this especially governance green new administration.)

So what to do about that?

CST doesn’t quite say, so I will.

City charter. chicago.suntimes.com/2023/7/11/2379…

You really only compete with one thing: Your costs.

It's not what they're doing. It's not their marketshare. It's not their growth numbers. It's not their ads everywhere.

Make your own business work. It doesn't matter what everyone else is doing.

world.hey.com/jason/you-only…

TY ⁦Neal Sáles-Griffin⁩ for firing us up ⁦Uncharted Learning, NFP⁩ ⁦INCubatoredu (from Uncharted Learning, NFP)⁩! #realworld #k12education

'To have all of this come together, with Rails World, with the Rails Foundation, in the year we'll celebrate the 20th anniversary of the framework, is just icing on the birthday cake. This is an exciting time to be part of the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.' world.hey.com/dhh/rails-worl…

'Here's everything you need to know about...' advice always seems be missing something.

Advice has an expiration date.

More thoughts on being careful about who's advice you follow:
world.hey.com/jason/advice-e…

big crowd for Techstars Demo Day!

nice job Brad Schnitzer Neal Sáles-Griffin

So excited to be watching Techstars Chicago DemoDay live and in person! Amazing companies and could not be prouder of what Neal Sáles-Griffin and the Chicago team has built!!

Anthony Moser @forestgregg Much. More generally, CHI is the only of the 25 largest cities to operate without a charter; and not to periodically retool its gov. structure via citizen-informed charter commission. The Nat'l Civic League is on its 9th ed. of a Model charter for cities w/ a commission guide.