John Beckmann

One of the most important lessons ever

It’s been 49 years since Doug Mountjoy played the greatest break-off in snooker history 😂

@cjc Amen

A common mistake leaders make is hiring mercenaries and being surprised when they act like mercenaries. If you recruit by overpaying and selling on hype, you're just outbidding the competition for people who prioritize being outbid. When the tide turns (and it very often does), mercenaries don’t suddenly become missionaries. They just find a new ship that’s still rising. The only real defense is a culture that attracts people who actually want to build the thing, not just own the options.

@scottastevenson Management culture is important when that’s what’s needed, which is often. It’s bad when innovation culture is what’s needed. The real trick is knowing which is which and how to support their co-existence in one organization.

Why manager-driven cultures are destined to eventually fail:

“The only true moat now is taste” - guy wearing Patagonia vest

Man, life was more fun when I had no idea what athletes and musicians thought about anything.

@andrewchen Explains so much

Long overdue. Have heard so many good things about this one…

@iamAlexTurnbull Numerous functions know more about the customer and their challenges than product. Gold in them thar hills…..if you go look

Your best support person knows more about your product than most of your PMs. What are they doing right now? Answering "how do I reset my password?" for the 50th time this week.

@nicbarkeragain Apple Music, TV, News have awful UI. It’s mystifying really.

Usually I try to just ignore this type of stuff and get on with my day, but I recently switched from spotify to apple music for reasons™, and the desktop user interface is so comically poor that I have to make a thread highlighting what I came across in one session, strap in:

@andrewchen It also ignores the mountains of ‘human slop’ :)

what people call "ai slop" is just AI generated content that's not good enough yet

POV: Software engineers 3 hours before the deadline. 😂

This gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣

@enterpret_ai helps companies unify, understand, and act on customer feedback.

@ttunguz There is only two ways to make money in software……bundling and unbundling:)

The SaaS era was defined by unbundling : find a workflow, optimize it, own it. Salesforce chose sales automation. Slack chose chat. Dropbox chose file sharing. Point solutions won by perfecting single workflows. The playbook : own one pain point, expand from there. AI is moving faster than anyone predicted. When models change every 42 days, buyers can’t assemble a best-of-breed stack. They want a platform they can trust for three to five years.

@antoniogm There are shitloads of people saying shitloads of stuff, about which they most definitely do not know shitloads. It was always thus, but the intertubes expose us to more of them.

It's funny watching all these consumer VCs doxxing how little they know about how even their own portcos achieved 'generational' scale. The common thread: none of them have actually grown a consumer app, and they conflate spectatoring as an investor with actual experience.

@Camp4 You left out the fact that Taos is awesome:)

We did a family road trip to Taos this week. 5 hours each way. Our Model Y did 100% of the driving. Zero interventions. One 12-min stop each way to charge during a bathroom break. Two 25-min charges in Taos while shopping. $57 total. Three things: 1) Most people don’t know that self-driving is solved. It’s mind-blowing and alleviates a surprising amount of mental load. When the supervision requirement is removed, it will be an even bigger game-changer. 2) Once you drive a Tesla, all other cars feel like relics from a bygone era. There are lots of subtle features that you don’t notice until you drive a regular car again. 3) Tesla is light years ahead of all other automakers and that gap will only grow because no other car company can design from first principles.

@villi That’s pretty cool

In 2007 I helped a small Israeli startup called Voltaire go public. Voltaire had built InfiniBand switches, which offered much higher performance than Ethernet switches. The company struggled for years and was acquired by Mellanox in 2011 for $218M. Mellanox was subsequently acquired by Nvidia. Today, Voltaire's DC switches are generating many billions in revenue for Nvidia and at the heart of their DC strategy. Voltaire was 15 years too early but their technology lives on.

@DoctorLemma Alternative headline: Drugs decrease inhibition and allow deep focus:)

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

@signulll Didn’t southwest and JetBlue and more try to be different and failed? Why/

some rich billionaire, can you please create an airline that will destroy every other airline? - charge fair straight forward premium prices - optimize for comfort, food, & premium experiences. - fuck the rewards, credit cards, & points. just clean beautiful experiences. maybe acquire few airlines to do it for gate access.