Frank Dale

Product-market fit isn't what most people think it is. After studying PMF for 15 years and observing ~1000 companies, here's what I've learned about what it really takes 🧵

There is a group of states actively competing to attract businesses and high earners, and another group adopting policies that drive them away. I don't see how this doesn't end up as a disaster in the long-term for the latter.

Modern media would have written about paratroopers who landed in the wrong place, friendly fire, unsuccessful landings and tens of thousands of dead Americans. Success in France and Germany? Not so much.

We’re launching a new @alphaschoolatx high school for aspiring entrepreneurs. Our promise: Make $1m by graduation, or receive a full tuition refund. Yes, this will be the coolest high school in the world. And we're building the best team in the world to make it happen. We’re looking for 2-3 exceptional coaches to help us guide the students towards achieving this aggressive but achievable goal. You won’t be giving lectures or assigning homework. You’ll be grilling them on their P&L, driving them to the car wash they bought, critiquing their email funnels, pushing them to do things 99% of the world doesn't believe is possible. Job posting is live and DMs are open.

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.

A society that valorizes heroes will last longer & accomplish more than one that valorizes victims.

Remember, this is the night when Woodrow Wilson slides down your chimney & steals an hour of your life.

This is such a great essay. Key passages that are relevant to anyone creating things today: “But it also started to feel interchangeable. The same office rendered in slightly different brick tones. Same productivity stack. Same standups, same onboarding templates. And now AI compressing even more of it, turning what used to feel like craft into something closer to assembly. When everyone can execute, execution stops being the differentiator. Productivity becomes table stakes. In a world where almost anything can be generated, the hardest thing to generate is conviction. You can execute from anywhere. But you can’t absorb what a company stands for from nowhere. The question every workplace architect is now being asked, whether they know it or not, is the same one that has always defined the best buildings: what does this place say you believe?”

@TheBabylonBee The same people who don't understand how 4-way stop signs work don't understand how roundabouts work.

@MorePerfectUS Stuff this bill into a canon and fire it into the sun Giving poor people access to >median professional advice one of the most important impacts of AI

There will never be a better opportunity for regime change than now. If there is no regime change, we'll have to return to Iran later to finish the job.

75 years ago, 1 out of every 5 dollars a US family earned went to food. Today that's closer to 1 in 10. A slow, steady, easy-to-miss kind of progress.

@IMAO_ One awful result of postmodernism and its offspring is that if morality is just narratives to achieve purposes, moral talk is just performative. People can learn to perform differently in different contexts. Seeming to apply different moralities, they are unable to criticise any.

@RubenGallego Brother, you sound like an authoritarian. No better than the people you condemn. This is not leadership. It is fascism with a D instead of an R.

I said, what I said.

One thing the normies are right about is that there's such a thing as "politicizing everything" and the people who do it are super annoying.

American excellence from across the political spectrum is a beautiful thing actually.

HHS just open-sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in history. About $1T in claims data, free for anyone to analyze via @DOGE_HHS. Everyone's looking at what was billed. At @MiddeskHQ, we're looking at who's behind the billing. Here's what we found 🧵

Spend too much on capex, jail Spend too little on capex, jail You spend just right on capex, believe it or not, jail

0% chance you can explain the state of AI to anyone outside of this website and not look like this right now