Founder MatterApp.com@MatterApp • Former Founder of Hall (acquired by Atlassian).

Joined March 2008
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Seeing a pattern lately. Employee uses Matter. Changes jobs. Gets the new company on @SlackHQ so they can use @MatterApp. And recognition and rewards blossom.
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.@HeyOyster support ticket, 24 hours, urgent, unresolved. Can you please help?
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Magic Reply is now live for all users in our alpha! Here's what it does: → Reads and understands your full email thread, not just the last message → Asks you the right questions instead of guessing your answer → Writes a reply that sounds like you, based on the context
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Maybe it named itself 😱
Whoever named Gemini at Google really named it. In the mythology, the immortal twin gives up his immortality to save the life of his mortal twin. It’s just like Google giving up 100% of its free cash flow to make sure Deepmind survives.
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Whoever named Gemini at Google really named it. In the mythology, the immortal twin gives up his immortality to save the life of his mortal twin. It’s just like Google giving up 100% of its free cash flow to make sure Deepmind survives.
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Layoffs at scale are meant to strengthen companies, yet they rarely produce the outcomes leaders hope for. For many, the moment becomes an inflection point toward founding, building, and leading something much bigger.
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It also raises a hard truth that the people making these decisions are not always the ones best positioned to shape the future.
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I was chatting with a group of Princeton CS students and they told me the CS enrollment has been way down. I looked into it, and it's definitely a trend: - Nationally, 62% of CS programs reported declines in 2025 - Down 9% over past 2 years across UC schools - Most striking, existing CS majors are feeling the most regret about their choice of major with the rise of AI (more than Humanities majors 😬) Whether we'll need more or fewer engineers in the future, the supply of new ones is shrinking. Maybe a temporary blip, maybe a sign of things to come. The silver lining though is that if there's a surge of demand for engineers, existing engineers will become super valuable.
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Before you decide to be a manager, you should think hard about whether it's the right path for you. Because you don't have to do it. Especially if you don't really want to, but believe the management ladder is the only way to move up in your career. A lot of people shouldn't be forced into management – if you're really not a people person, or you only want to focus on the work, or you thrive on having regular day to-day successes and accomplishments and the murky maybe-your-team-will-succeed-one-day-style of management is less motivating to you. - #BUILD Chapter 2.1 Just Managing
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Your customers will teach you how to go from $1m to $100m ARR, you just have to listen True especially if your initial TAM seems quite small
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.@sama Feature request: If there’s an image in my clipboard when ChatGPT opens, auto start the upload. Tiny change. Huge time saver for power users.
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Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
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.@molekuleair still no update from support. help please?
.@molekuleair my Air Purifier been broken since December. Support is not helping. Taking days between unhelpful email replies. Please help.
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Would no longer recommend @molekuleair - their support does not support. Devices break.
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.@molekuleair my Air Purifier been broken since December. Support is not helping. Taking days between unhelpful email replies. Please help.
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Gemini is very, very good
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Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way after watching founders (including myself) hire ahead of need and end up with people in roles that weren't fully formed yet. When you hire out of pain, you know exactly what the job is because you've been doing it yourself. You can evaluate performance because you know what good looks like. And the new hire knows you'll step back in if they fail, because you were just doing it last week.
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We’ve officially reached the point where there are more meeting assistants in the meeting than actual participants. 🤖
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.@joinHandshake I would like to post a job on your site but my account was deactivated and there's no way to reactivate. Please help. ty!
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