Mike Barnlund

LinkedIn is basically Moltbook now.

@fahdananta I praise the questioning, and explain that the difference between good and great is sometimes just getting up and doing the work when you don’t feel like it

Gm, this morning the kid didn’t want to go to school I struggle with it because on one hand it’s important to question structure and authority and on the other hand discipline is key. I want to teach that you can’t just make your own rules whenever, but sometimes you can and should use independent judgement. We had breakfast together and then dropped him off and he was happy because I said sometimes we have to do things out of responsibility even if we don’t want to do it that moment. I still feel mixed about it. Lmk if any parents have stoic ways to think about this balance of structure vs free will

Work hard. Get married. Lay down roots. Build a family. Never lie. Someone should tell young men that the path to joy is relatively straight.

@mcfazeli @amazon @Meta @Microsoft @salesforce @stripe @Shopify @Google Huge!

BIG NEWS! @Amazon, @Meta, @Microsoft, @Salesforce, and @Stripe are joining forces with us (@Shopify, @Google, and other founding members) to truly make UCP the single, universal protocol for commerce in the agentic era. 🎉🚀

I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many entry level roles typically filled by young employees. The technology would then work its way up the organization and eventually reduce the total number of jobs in a company. The data is saying something different, so when I get new information I am willing to change my mind. The number of software engineers being hired has been increasing. The number of open software engineer roles is growing. The number of new college grads who get hired has increased 5.6% over the last 12 months. The unemployment level for people aged 20-24 years old who have a college degree has fallen from nearly 9% to almost 5% as well. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote “AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as Head of AI and AI engineer.” And I am starting to see companies throughout our portfolio aggressively hiring to keep up with the demand for their products and services. If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind. AI appears to be a magical technology that will make companies more productive and more profitable. The net result will be more corporations, more startups, and more jobs. All three are big, positive wins for the American economy.

@JohnNabuurs yep. Canada can be the richest country on planet earth any time it chooses. It's literally just choices.

Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is going to the moon next week on Artemis II and it’s not in the news anywhere in Canada.

@mixpanel Love this, working great so far. Thank you!

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@thekitze Any 2.4G mouse too

i've had 3 generations of mx master mouse and ANY wired mouse kicks its ass all day every day it's heavy, clunky, has way more delay, and you don't need more than 3 buttons, it's truly a performative mouse.

Great read. Totally agree on building for agents, and that's a very different build than building for humans. But I think you're overstating agentic ignorance of brands. A lot of brand loyalty is built post-purchase. Fulfillment, delivery, post-purchase care/support, and most importantly product experience. Brands who ignore this will be vulnerable, but I'd argue they already were. Humans will still have loyalty to brands that take care of them after checkout. The agents that serve those humans will need to take that preference into account as they will any shopping preference: style, size, color, etc, or they will lose out to agents who do.

Announcing a new Claude Code feature: Remote Control. It's rolling out now to Max users in research preview. Try it with /remote-control Start local sessions from the terminal, then continue them from your phone. Take a walk, see the sun, walk your dog without losing your flow.

@farzyness Great chapter. When’s the book out?

Phenomenal. A must read.

@bcherny 🚢🚢🚢

Proud of the team for shipping the VSCode extension! It has been available for many months, and is now officially generally available

@sathvikdivili Phenomenal stuff @sathvikdivili!

Alberta Spends FY 24-25 @canada_spends @build_canada Get insights into Government of Alberta's Revenue and Spending data Explore the data at the link below:

@globeandmail Shame on you, @globeandmail

Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

"Crypto doesn’t win by turning the world into crypto natives. It wins when nobody has to be crypto-native to benefit from it." 🎯