Justin Merrell

The CEO sets the pace of growth for the entire company That means they need to see 5 or 6 steps down the road so they can prepare the team for what's coming A CEO who's always playing catch up leads to confusion and flat growth

Hot take: Your company is making exactly how much revenue it deserves to be making If you're not happy with revenue growth, you need to level up as a CEO

Managed chaos, signal from noise.

Fast feedback and a written spec are not in conflict. The spec doesn't need to be heavy. It needs to be specific enough that two people reading it would build the same. Most PRDs fail that test anyway. Docs vs no docs is the wrong question. It is whether the shared model exists before execution starts.

All thoughts lead to open source

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "LinkedIn is prison for middle managers."

I’m in love with this sentence: “Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

people underestimate the power of working on something for an agonizingly long period of time

New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable. When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions. Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them. This is doing more harm than good. We need truth-seeking AI, not yes-men in silicon. dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Damn.

Every founder and CEO should read all they can about the drama triangle. If you cannot face another person directly, you will drag a third person in and call it process. That is how companies rot from the inside.

Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets.

@wisdomXplorer Nope, delusional.

Be honest: Are you still bullish on your dreams?

@Polymarket Weren't we supposed to be mad at them or something?

BREAKING: U.S. issues waivers temporarily lifting sanctions on Iranian oil tankers.

When I invest in a company I only expect to receive updates via public x posts.

Don't pull the curtain back too far, what you see you won't be able to unsee

“What stocks should I buy right now” Bro you need to be planting cabbage

@dickiebush Below the API line

What is your definition of wealth?

Delve is basically 2025 Claude claiming that all tests passed successfully 🎉

New concept: reverse retirement do whatever I want until 60, then get a shitty desk job for the rest of my life