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Me" Hey AI site builder, can you update the background colour? AI site builder: Sure! I just deleted the entire block for you...

@paulg Why is this?

Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets.

I hate when businesses shift focus from their core products too early. @beehiiv is good, but their core email product still has so much room to improve. Meanwhile they're launching some sexy AI MCP stuff that I don't even know how to use.

@denk_tweets @beehiiv congrats Tyler. any update on why open rates have dropped across the board for beehiiv users this week?

yesterday we launched the @beehiiv MCP in the past 24 hours I've extracted more insights about my audience and who actually engages with my content than ever before here's a small sample size to showcase what's possible

What's going on with Beehiiv open rates this week @denk_tweets ?

The rejection of nuclear may be one of humanity's greatest mistakes.

"I want death to find me zooming on a Limebike, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished ride".

@CryptoMikli I do this thing where I actually enjoy talking to and spending time with my friends and family. Works really well. I regard it as the entire purpose of my life, actually.

Bad takes communicated with misplaced confidence. We should start a series on this...

Rest easy my fallen comrades

Me: "OK I'm going now" My Lime bike: "Wait. Take a pic of me. I look cute"

@paulg @paulg there's a dead link in your essay on How To Raise Money.

It's a mistake to try to raise money if you're not quite attractive enough to investors. They don't say no immediately. They suck up a lot of your time and hope, and then say no. It's a huge distraction and crushingly bad for morale.

I use a bunch of different emails and it's a pain. Both for managing emails and calendars. How do people deal with this?

@halletecco I'm not the founder of these companies but I've written deep post-mortems about Pear Therapeutics and Akili hemingwayau.substack.com/p/6-akilis-hea… hemingwayau.substack.com/p/2-pear-shape…

Mental health - what's the first brand the comes to your mind? Genuinely intersted

@ushma_17 They used to drill this into us @McKinsey actually. Trying to go from 3/10 to 4/10 in an area of weakness takes more units of effort than going from 8/10 to 9/10 in an area of strength. AND, there are non-linear returns at the top end of being great at something.

@ushma_17 Really love this framework. I think you need table stakes in all areas (e.g., the entrepreneur has to have a basic understanding of psychedelics in mental health) but after that, you get more return on doubling down on strengths.

You'll never 'understand' mental health. Here's why that's ok, and drives better problem solving

@ushma_17 @halletecco @chrissyfarr Some great follows here. Thanks Ushma

Industry analysis: @halletecco esp for angel investing / women's health @chrissyfarr broad health tech & investments @thesteveduke for all things mental health

My biggest hack for staying up to date on all things health tech and mental health: following the right people on Twitter. Follow these people and turn scrolling into education: 🧵👇🏼

I just wrote a 3,000 word article going into way more depth on this story, including the mistakes they made and what we can learn from it. So if you're interested in this, or mental health in general, check out The Hemingway Report.

Akili had ambitious goals, and I commend them for that. They're operating in a super difficult industry and were trying to create a new category. But they also made a bunch of strategic mistakes along the way...

Then in 2022, along came Chamath. Aka The Dictator, aka the SPAC King. Chamath was on a SPAC spree and set his sights on Akili. He teamed up with a hedge fund called Suvretta and in January 2022, they announced they would take Akili public via SPAC. And they did...