Zach Ware

Imagine learning English and finding out "tear" means ripping something in two. Also means water from your eyeballs. Same spelling. Two pronunciations. Good luck.

SXSW is a good time to remind ourselves that Austin is spending $5.6 billion to renovate the convention center. It's betting 80% of hotel tax revenue through 2058 will cover it. The convention industry is down 25% nationally since 2006 and 45% in Austin since 2018.

@nickgraynews @HankFrank This is kind of my favorite thing ever.

@HankFrank my friend @zachware swears by something like this!

I've talked to a lot of people working in AI with agents, Claude Code, etc One thing I keep hearing that nobody has written about is that many builders have stopped going to the gym The reason is always the same: the perceived opportunity cost of stepping away from their projects feels too high I've noticed it in myself too It's hard to break away when we're all building such cool stuff But I'm typing this from the gym right now And I'll tell you that it feels great You should go exercise if you haven't lately You'll have better energy and better focus Less prompting and more lifting!!

@DallasAptGP @nickgraynews @pterrys We will be the best guests of all the guests

@nickgraynews @pterrys @zachware I would come down to join Let’s do it

Eat lunch with Patrick Terry, literally! Comment below if you and a couple of friends would like to enjoy a meal at your favorite P. Terry’s stand, his treat. We’ll be in touch with 10 guests by March 16.

@heynavtoor Great post! I'm curious how you consistently access the context files. Say you're pointing a task to a folder for work, but the context files exist elsewhere. How are you surfacing that in the context of the tasks you're working on on a regular basis?

@dantefofante tell me you only travel to coastal cities without telling me

one of the best parts about traveling is finding new rare meats

@willroman Congrats Will! This makes me so happy!

A meaningful life is built, not found. Commitment is the architecture of joy. Engaged 12/24/25

My most irrational fear is having funny kids, going on a trip, and then one of them says to the CBP officer…I don’t know this man.

markets for everything. BofA's private art group is 12 advisors. Goldman is 10+.

@mhp_guy It is not the best. Fireboard it the best.

How is it 2025 and the best option we have for a WiFi meat thermometer is this. I’ve used two different models of the Meater for 4 years and it’s never worked right for me.

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The best example of where this logic fails is Wink. It was a hub that talked to every brand of connected home product (bulbs, plugs, etc..) They had no revenue model, selling new units funded support for the system, the ponzi scheme ran out, and it died. This works for products that don't need cloud analysis. And to that end more products should probably localize the core features, in that way you are right. The issue is that the user experience would be massively degraded (again, totally fine). If you want Whoop-like biometrics, you can get them from a ton of devices with no sub. If you want Whoop analysis, you pay. (note: not a whoop user, don't like it, but the position holds nonetheless)

I have reached a point where I completely despise subscriptions. As we head into 2026, it should be UNACCEPTABLE to pay every month, forever, to keep renting a product that improves marginally once a quarter. I am sick of it. I was looking into Whoop. Yes, it's great and all but F***CCCKKKK it ends up costing around ~$300 PER YEAR, every single year, forever, just to access your own data. I can afford the $300 - that is not the point - but system itself is ridiculous. You buy the hardware. You wear it. You generate the data. And yet you are still on the hook, indefinitely, to keep the lights on! Stop paying and your product is basically bricked... I would much rather pay a higher one-off price and actually OWN the thing. I'm convinced subscription fatigue will intensify over the next few years because people are fed up and at some point the pendulum swings back. Pay once. Own forever (or at least something closer to that)

instagram learned the opposite lesson: trap users in an infinite scroll of mediocre content and call it engagement. 7-11 is the largest retailer in the world (by store count). if customers responded to fresh produce like they respond to Doritos, it would be the largest grocer in the world.

the randomness of not being able to find what you're actually looking for forces you to spend more time sifting through gunk. the algo pushes something else, distracts you, next thing you know you're looking at an ad for supplements you don't need. it's the exact same playbook as the web portals of the 00s. excite and yahoo didn't want you to find what you were searching for. they wanted you endlessly clicking around their portal, racking up pageviews. google won by actually solving the problem: get you to your answer and get you out.

Instagram's core competency is velocity of product delivery. When a feature demonstrates product-market fit on a competing platform—Stories from Snapchat, Reels from TikTok—Instagram can design, develop, and ship at scale faster than any comparable company.

@rfkenmore Tell me you've been to the soho store without telling me.

It’s funny — stores are supposed to make you appreciate and enjoy a brand more With Buck Mason, it’s the exact opposite for me