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The world feels chaotic because the structural pipelines of society are being rewired. 🧵 Sam Jordan breaks down why every industry is currently running backwards and how "Promptable Worlds" and "Agentic AI" are changing how we build and learn forever. A must-watch for anyone leading through the AI transition: youtube.com/live/ztDGl2QIF…

A 7M parameter model just beat GPT-4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, & DeepSeek R1 on ARC-AGI. Recursive reasoning with a 2-layer network that iterates on its own answers. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871

🤔 Building an internal eng team before PMF is startup suicide. Burning $50K/month on salaries while pivoting 3x. Those engineers you hired for v1.0? Wrong skills for v2.0. Outsource to a team that's seen 100 pivots. Get to revenue. Then hire. Speed to PMF > team building.

Google Devfest Cloud 2025 Manila well underway today, brought to you by GDG Cloud Manila, @launchgarage and Proudcloud.

Grandpa was a smart guy :)

Super underrated book for founders

“These are startups who have founders that realized they would rather focus on product-market fit than managing their own development teams,” @jayfajardo techinasia.com/ai-talent-war-…

Telehealth became essential almost overnight during the pandemic, and PROUDCLOUD had to re-engineere MEDIFI’s core infrastructure while continuing to support patients and doctors who depended on it every day. 👉 blog.proudcloud.io/re-engineering…

New episode: "How Elon Works" This episode covers the insanely valuable company-building principles of Elon Musk A few notes from the episode: 1. The mission comes first. 2. Retreat is not an option. 3. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle. 4. Product design should be driven by engineers. 5. You should not separate engineering from product design. 6. Having separate design and production departments is bullshit. Keep everything together and feedback immediate. 7. The leader should be on the front lines. You should be a battlefield general. 8. "If they see the general out on the battlefield, the troops are going to be motivated. Wherever Napoleon was, that's where his armies would do best." 9. Apply The Algorithm constantly. (1) Question every requirement. (2) Delete any part of the process you can. (3) Simplify and optimize. (4) Accelerate cycle time. (5) Automate. 10. Repetition is persuasive. "I became a broken record on the algorithm. I think it's helpful to say it to an annoying degree." 11. You should go ultra-hardcore on deletion and simplification. 12. Camaraderie is dangerous. It makes it hard for people to challenge each other’s work. (Refer to point #1) 13. Never ask your troops to do something you wouldn’t do. 14. Hire for attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant. 15. Good attitude = A desire to work maniacally hard. 16. The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation. 17. Keep your entire company committed to a common goal. 18. If things aren’t going well, throw away the existing design, start from first principles, question every requirement based on fundamental physics. 19. Find the limit. You want to delete as much as possible and you can’t do that unless you find the limit. 20. If you aren’t adding back at least 10% of the things you deleted, then you didn’t delete enough. 21. Maintain control. Avoid joint ventures. Eliminate middlemen. 22. Have a relentless dedication to questioning every requirement. 23. No work about work, just work. 24. Go to the problem. Get on the plane. Fly to the source. Go to the exact location in the factory. Go to the problem and stay there until it's resolved. 25. The best part is no part. 26. Be wired for war. 27. Do not fear losing. It hurts the first 50 times but then you’ll be able to play with less emotion. You will take more risks. 28. Stay heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization. 29. When something is important and has to be done quickly, have meetings every 24 hours to run the algorithm and check on the previous days progress. You'll be shocked at how fast this speeds things up. 30. Life needs to be interesting and edgy. 31. Delete, delete, delete, delete. There are 100 more ideas in the episode. I hope you listen to it. 30 years of Elon’s career + 60 hours of reading and research and me just absolutely ripping through idea after idea at 2x speed for 90 minutes. It will be hard to find a better use of time.

This is the youngest billionaire you've never heard of: A pizza delivery driver who started with just £2,000. And he did it by using a strategy that Nike, Adidas and Under Armour are still too proud to use. Here's how Ben Francis turned Gymshark into fitness royalty: 🧵

Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem. They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them. Then something happened...

This Week in Rails is out and includes updates improving SQLite row count accuracy, a new way to set transaction isolation across all database pools, and major enhancements to Active Job Continuations, including instrumentation and safer checkpoints. Thanks to @eileencodes, skipkayhill, and djmb for the updates to the framework, and @OughtPuts and @Ridhwana_K for the documentation PRs. Find the full edition here: rubyonrails.org/2025/6/13/this…

Most startup founders don’t need more developers. They need a better workflow. We just published The Proudcloud Playbook—how we build lean, ship fast, and stay aligned with founders. No fluff. Just what works. blog.proudcloud.io/the-proudcloud…

SHAPE UP product development framework developed by @37signals for @basecamp, being discussed at tonight’s Philippine Ruby Users Group #phrug meet-up at @launchgarage.

Come over to @launchgarage on the 30th of April as we host this month's edition of the Philippine Ruby Users Group (PhRUG) meetup! We'll have D Allan Gray and another rubyist from Narra giving talks. Beers on us! meetup.com/ruby-phil/even…

The days of launching rough and fixing later are over. We’re not building for patient early adopters anymore. We’re launching into a market with high expectations, short attention spans, and no obligation to stick around. Rethink your MVP IN 2025 medium.com/proudcloud/ret…

Keep your eye on this space. We’re hiring! * Philippines or Indonesia based. Full-time, WFH, React, Python, Node.js proudcloud.io/careers

See you at BUILD Startup Festival 2025! 🚀 The BUILD Startup Festival, Sinigang Valley Association's flagship event, celebrating the Philippine startup ecosystem. We're excited to support this dynamic event and engage with innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

Hiring for Philippine based Python and React.js developers. Fully remote. Visit proudcloud.io for more info.

How Startups Worldwide Are Offshoring to Philippine Tech Talent English-proficient, cost-friendly product teams in the Philippines are empowering western startups to scale faster while staying lean. blog.proudcloud.io/why-startups-w… #offshore #outsourcing #SoftwareDevelopment