Byron -

Business is difficult because it's complicated, complex, and conceptual. You need diagrams to understand the relationships between the functions. And you need documents to be clear about what everyone should be doing. here you go

@UrbanCourtyard I just found you, love your aims already and had a joke comment ... have you thought of calling this movement the backyardigans?

@mspringut @PhilSustainable HOT TAKE

@PhilSustainable Also I’m trying to build beautiful things that last forever

The first "structural stone buildings" you'll see in the US will be regular buildings with self-supporting stone facades (not bearing the building's load). That's the easier/faster code path than making entire structures, slabs and cores out of stone. These building will be similar in form to Soho's cast iron buildings, with columns and beams forming a separate layer in front of the main building. Reinforced stone columns and girders could be a lot thinner than the cast iron versions and require far fewer columns, though we'll hopefully have a ton of column anyway.

@mattbaran @mnolangray This all sounds great. Then I imagine the traffic. Has mass transit factored into any of this or are we just ignoring that as an externality?

@mnolangray I’m so ready.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that SB 684-1123, AKA the Starter Home Revitalization Act, will be a $100 billion dollar industry in 10 years, kicking off permitting on the scale of what we've seen for ADUs, but for California homeowners. Strap in!

@aakashgupta @mrshadeed even bad licensing deals can payoff in the end eh?

In 1994, a nearly bankrupt Marvel sold the X-Men's film rights to Fox for $2.6 million. Buying them back cost Disney $71.3 billion. And it still took 7 more years before Marvel cast its own X-Men team. The 1994 deal is one of the worst in Hollywood history. Marvel was bleeding cash and filed for bankruptcy two years later, so it licensed everything it could. Fox got X-Men live-action and animation rights outright. Marvel kept roughly 2% of ticket sales. Fox turned that $2.6 million into 13 films grossing $6.08 billion. Marvel's cumulative cut over two decades was on the order of $100 million. They watched other people make billions off characters they created, then watched Fox torch Dark Phoenix for a $100 million loss on the way out. So Disney paid $71.3 billion for Fox in 2019, with X-Men as the crown jewel, and did something almost no studio can afford to do. Nothing. Feige spent seven years letting the Fox continuity die. The only mutant movie Marvel released in that window, Deadpool and Wolverine, was a farewell tour of the old universe, and it made $1.34 billion. He waited until audiences missed the X-Men again. Now it's moving fast. Sadie Sink debuted as Jean Grey in Spider-Man this week. Samara Weaving is Emma Frost, the role that reportedly got the most thorough search of the entire cast. The reboot lands around 2028. That's 34 years from fire sale to do-over. The franchise Marvel sold for $2.6 million came back at 27,000 times the price, and Disney's bet is that the wait was the cheap part.

@BrianNiemeier thanks, i needed a new rabbit hole

As usual, it's the theater kids who are acting. Gygax and Arneson published original D&D as a wargame, not a role-playing game.

@aakashgupta Someone needs to bankroll a non-marvel Blade called Sword or Edge.

Marvel spent 7 years, 6 writers, 3 directors, and a two-time Oscar winner's contract failing to make Blade. The only Blade footage they ever shipped was a cameo where Wesley Snipes jokes that nobody will ever replace him. This week the cancellation became official. The ledger on this thing is brutal. Announced at Comic-Con 2019 with Mahershala Ali on stage. Then Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Michael Starrbury, Beau DeMayo, Nic Pizzolatto, Michael Green, and Eric Pearson all took cracks at the script. Bassam Tariq and Yann Demange both signed on to direct and both walked. Cary Fukunaga was in talks and passed. Three release dates came and went. The clearest sign it was dead? Ruth E. Carter's period costumes for Blade got quietly repurposed for Sinners, which grossed $366M for Warner Bros while Marvel's version sat in a drawer. Ali's reaction says everything about how studios burn talent. "You had me under contract. They have billions of dollars. If they wanted to do it, we would've done it." He trained with swords for years for a movie that never rolled a single frame. Kevin Feige's own words on the collapse were "I feel like a gigantic loser." Here's the part that makes the whole thing absurd. Blade in 1998 grossed $131M on a $45M budget two years after Marvel filed for bankruptcy. Before X-Men, before Spider-Man, it was the first proof that a Marvel character could carry a movie. The entire $30B+ MCU sits on a foundation Wesley Snipes poured. So when Snipes delivers that line in Deadpool & Wolverine, "there's only ever gonna be one Blade," Marvel wrote it as a gag. Seven years and six writers later, they turned it into a prophecy.

@mikeboysen this sounds a little like my idea that all movement is internal first. Your musculature and bone structure needs to change its internal tensions before you can move a limb.

Disruptive innovation is not a vibe. It is a shape - a small set of structural moves that change the cost curve. Companies that copy the surface of disruption usually miss the part that mattered.

@mikeboysen @grok also admittedly the market tends to price future prospects in as well.

@KeyOrgSystems Do their investors think the stock is a winner? Hey @grok , is Wix still profitable. Do a comparative analysis between now and 4 years ago

The web creation landscape just witnessed one of the most drastic collapses in modern tech history. Wix, once a $19 billion powerhouse that dominated Super Bowl ad slots and YouTube sponsorships, has seen its value plunge nearly 90% down to $2 billion. Mullenweg: “Wix's login... they're like a roach motel where you can check in but never check out. Once you buy into their proprietary stack, you're locked in.” Abrahami: “If we give people the ability to generate their vision and to make it as beautiful as they want, then we have a winner.” For over a decade, the path to building a digital presence was governed by rigid, high-margin, closed-ecosystem platforms. You sacrificed total control and code portability in exchange for a simple, visual drag-and-drop builder. That trade-off no longer makes sense. Old Paradigm: Proprietary drag-and-drop builders locking you into subscription tiers. Massive marketing budgets driving conversion from free-tier users to locked-in paid plans. Slow, manual updates to keep pace with basic design standards. New Paradigm: AI-driven vibe coding and generative platforms turning natural language directly into custom, open web code. Instant, zero-friction site generation that makes traditional templates look like legacy infrastructure overnight. Complete code ownership without proprietary platform lock-in. When technology shifts from visual abstraction (drag-and-drop) to natural language generation (AI prompt-to-code), the moat around proprietary software architecture evaporates. The collapse doesn't stop at website builders. It cascades across the entire point-and-click SaaS economy: Platform Lock-in Decays: Software vendors that built billion-dollar businesses on restrictive ecosystems are suddenly left holding closed databases that users actively want to escape. The Table-Stakes Trap: Shipping AI tools in 2026 isn't a competitive differentiator—it is the bare minimum requirement for survival. Belated AI feature rollouts fail to excite a market that has already moved on to autonomous development agents. Financial & Legal Realignment: Missed product deadlines, declining cash flow margins, and mounting debt quickly trigger investor lawsuits and massive workforce contractions under the guise of "AI efficiency." Every major technological shift punishes those who build walls around convenience. When Flash dominated early web creation, it offered unprecedented design freedom—at the cost of severe security flaws, poor performance, and complete platform dependency. When the open mobile web arrived, that walled garden crumbled. Now, we are seeing the exact same cycle play out at the software abstraction layer. The tools that once democratized access by hiding complexity eventually become the very obstacles holding creators back. Human ambition always gravitated toward absolute creative freedom, and as soon as AI lowers the barrier of true custom software creation to zero, the middleman loses its reason to exist. SaaS didn't just get disrupted by better software; it got rendered unnecessary by intelligent generation. The era of paying monthly rent for visual drag-and-drop boxes is over—the future belongs to those who control the intent, not the canvas. youtube.com/watch?v=D1FFcz…

Man, I didn’t know Spider-Man’s web were THAT strong. Held a debris of a building and restrained rampage HULK.

@ClintFiore didn't know there was electrolyte mix! I was doubling up on creatine and a few other powders with salt and sweet trying to make a new gatorade for myself. i forgot to finish my pqq 40 and just got a 4-month supply of mitopure, i'm about to clean up my mitos.

I have been working on perfecting a DIY preworkout mix that’s cheaper than name brand mixes, and better for insane energy, hydration, and muscle pumps. Here’s where I’m at so far: - 5mg creatine - 1tbsp vegetable glycerine - 8mg L-citrulline - 22g Gatorade orange powder (original sugar kind) - 1 small scoop electrolyte mix with high potassium - a couple pinches of salt Drink this 24-32oz of water 15-30 minutes before lifting. Bonus pump: pair this with 5mg Tadalafil and some quick acting carbs like a banana, or some nerd clusters or gummy bears. This will give you energy for high intensity sets, hyper hydrate your muscles, and give you crazy vascularity for blood flow. Thanks all my 𝕏 bros for all the ideas on this. Basically stole this in bits and pieces from my bros on here.

@normonics they should put a thumbs down button but not show any stats about it. they could use it for internal analytics

What if we put a thumbs down button right where the like button used to be

@iamKierraD you need solutions to this problem

My problem is I want to dress like this while I’m on stage talking about AI strategy and organizational redesign

@TheCoolestCool I just scored this in a physical bookstore. as an avid Georgist I'm hype about it. I've only read the 1st chapter and am so glad I bought it already. amazon.com/Land-Trap-Hist…

What’s the best book you read in the last 12 months?

@HarryWi @JohnnyWalsh__ its from all the shit we put up with from lesser cities

@JohnnyWalsh__ Love our brown river

No city in America gets a view this good from the train

@mattbaran @PatCarino @resetbasis ^^^ is with the shits

@PatCarino @resetbasis I feel like this could be a really good new career path for me.

After reading this, I immediately thought this is how @resetbasis must spend his weekends.

@heyblake I'm half convinced that if you're not running marketing experiements faster than you're building yngmi

Product launch timeline: Month 1: building Month 2: still building Month 3: soft launch to 11 friends Month 4: "we're in stealth" Month 5: building again Month 6: launch on Product Hunt Month 7: pivot

@Alwayskeepone with a sidequest of crossing the moat of bad business analsysi before climbing the mountain of bad project management

@KeyOrgSystems Correct

We probably chose chaos 😭

Nobody warns you that a career in tech means studying something new every month just to keep up. Is it like this in other fields or did we choose chaos?