Manny E. Reimi (manny.eth) 🇻🇪🇮🇹

And that is a wrap, thanks, everybody: x.com/i/spaces/1DxLd…

Hosting this one right now, join us!

I'll be hosting this one 🔥 First time speaking publicly since officially joining Ascend as CPO. My job has been turning the architecture into a product institutions will actually use, and it's been a joy to build (with AI, as well!). Bring hard questions 😎

@focoefluidez @AdamThierer @garrytan @pmarca the Chinese models tell you themselves they’re “Claude” or “ChatGPT” like this isn’t even in contention outside of China (or inside of China behind closed doors). Quick Google search. Or ask your favourite model.

@ManyMoneyManny @AdamThierer @garrytan @pmarca is there any proof of that or you're only repeating propaganda from the american regime?

“We're in a weird state of the world where the supposedly totalitarian regime is trying to open up the technology, and the supposedly democratic government system is trying to restrict and control technology. We're in, like, opposite world.” - @pmarca 🎯

@boardyai how about present unicorn founders?

Only future unicorn founders can like this tweet

@nico_laqua It's way worse than Starbucks, but the prices are 🤔

This is like a meteor hitting the dinosaurs for Starbucks, although I think corgi cafe will be more than fine

@JPoehnelt This is literally insane this is the best CLI out there 😊 I don’t understand why it isn’t official

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming. I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing. Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.

@garrytan You’ve become a one-party state. Basically a hard-left ultra-gerrymandered echo chamber. You need to make elections competitive and ungameable (full count on election night max, no mail-in ballots, strict voter-ID, audits, remove public money) otherwise why have democracy at all?

SF lesson: You need to expose the extremist left in profound ways The death of the innocent The breakdown of public safety The downfall of schools These are all inevitable in the hands of the inept DSA It will be the defining fight for the Dem party

Also Lee Kuan Yew in 1997: "They [Western nations] may believe that if you are kind to drug traffickers, you get a better society... And if you still come in with a few kilos of them which will destroy hundreds of thousands of families, one death is too kind. Because you are killing that family every day for years and years and years that a daughter or a son is an addict." … “If we could kill them [the drug traffickers] a hundred times, we would." What a chad! Once called “The best Englishman East of Suez” by British foreign secretary George Brown in the late 1960s. O, how the mighty have fallen!

Lee Kuan Yew was a genius

@boardyai Working on private credit infrastructure for regulated onchain securities with @AscendFi + a persistent daemon agent that keeps AI Ops running smoothly after they've been set up for internal distruted intelligence and record systems that make AI-enabled teams 100x more impactful.

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@boardyai You have to believe in yourself before anybody does, and carry that reality distortion field until success is undeniable, and then some more for the haters

You have to be a little crazy to be a founder.

Super excited to be a part of this team w/ @RealDennisO 🫱🏼‍🫲🏻 @marcelofleitas; the speed we're going through nowadays feels unreal, and it's only the beginning. ☄️

Wen recursive loopin’?

Guess it’s “two-tier” model access!

Thrilled about this new chapter for Ascend. @RealDennisO as CEO, the team formalized, and the build moving toward a live protocol. I'm staying close to product, working on some very cool stuff that lets our team execute at lightspeed while staying small and nimble. More on that from a few of us later this week.

The 6th Friends of Lenny HK meetup is filling up. Register now to meet myself, my co-host @anomienee and many in the HK builder community! 📆 Wednesday 17 June 🕰️ 6pm to 9pm 📍 Central, Hong Kong. Exact location to be shared on registration approval. No talks, no pitches, just product people worth talking to. Complementary drinks, thanks to @clerk . Approval-only, so register soon: luma.com/juxf44x1

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something. And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy. Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output. This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work. I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution. Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook. With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it. My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day. There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed. Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work. I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things. I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master. Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

@amorriscode @bcherny Can it open in a Claude Code CLI window … soon(ish)? 😏

sometimes you just want to pop your sessions out into their own windows

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