Steve Huynh

Most people don't need another productivity system. They just need one day where they turn off their notifications and phones.

@reader_mode Because they write software faster than they can verify the changes don’t break their service.

@ALEngineered Why does claude crashes ? Can't claude code AWS on its own? Or gcp

If you work for a company selling software, your days are numbered. It’s just a matter of time before the frontier AI labs either fold your functionality into their model or have a model powerful enough to copy your featureset. You want to be working for a company that sells services, aka outcomes.

You are more than likely time bankrupt. If I gave you a completely free day, you would just squander it the same way you have the other seven.

What usually happens after a reorg?

Most careers are built on strengths. The performance reviews cycle is based on surfacing weaknesses. This creates perverse incentives and behavior.

The higher you climb, the less likely people are to tell you that you're wrong. This explains a surprising amount of corporate behavior. People start optimizing for your reaction instead of the truth. Good leaders welcome dissenting opinions, bad leaders love the smell of their farts.

@IsaacKimes It wasn't all positive, Sarr / Senegal choked away the lead.

Yesterday was a great day for Americans that support Tottenham Hotspur: 1. Tonali - what a massive sign of intent 2. Kane - left no doubt that he’s the greatest English player of all time 3. Poch - knockout win for USA and now winningest USMNT coach

Modern work has created an entire class of people whose primary job is talking about work instead of doing it.

A lot of people want to build in public. Very few want to struggle in public, but that’s the secret sauce for success.

There are people teaching personal branding whose personal brand is teaching personal branding, AI educators that teach others how to be AI educators, and YouTubers whose channels are about how to grow big on YouTube. Judge them not by the strength of their content but by how successful they are with their businesses.

Every big tech company eventually becomes the thing it disrupted when it was small and scrappy.

The people that don’t understand how next level this is, or wonder why you can’t just do this in Claude code don’t understand triage. Choosing what to fix and why automatically is the hard part.

@linear This is amazing!

Introducing coding sessions. Linear Agent can now triage issues, investigate the cause, write the fix, open a PR, and bring the code back for review. All shared with your team in Linear.

Has AI made you:

Learning something new means you have to suck at it for a while, but people don’t want to do things that they suck at. That’s why building in public is so great, if you actually follow through on it you are guaranteed success and visibility. What happens most of the time is people make the first post about building in public then eventually give up in private, guaranteeing failure.

There are people posting about how much AI is making them productive, but the only thing that has 10x’ed are their tweets.

@hthieblot Slashdot

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

The higher someone climbs in an organization, the more likely they are to be disconnected from reality. This means if you are connected to reality, you are immediately useful to them if you see something and can get a message to them.

The people who say “just work smarter” are usually standing on years of accumulated leverage they forgot they have. It’s like saying “the best strategy for chess is to checkmate the other player.”