Building Kineticist and This Week in Pinball. Boston sports fan, music nerd, film lover, writer, entrepreneur, pinball player, marketer by trade.
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Gonna go crash this
Today’s the day the Tartan Army head to watch the baseball en masse. The @RedSox game on Friday was well attended by Scotland fans but today is set to be even bigger. There is a planned march to the game from Back Bay with live music at the starting point. The meeting point is Evans Way Park.
If you’re there or going feel free to tag us in your photos and videos. 🏴
#TartanArmy #Boston
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Jun 12
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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yeah boss i'm going to need to be sent to maine for about two weeks to really get to the bottom of this platner situation, need to pick up his trail in bar harbor, see if he did anything in acadia, check out camden, rockport, swing down to kennebunkport
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colin retweeted
May 30
Here you go folks. Definitely a meteor causing that big boom! @wbz
May 30
The flash density product really shows this anomalous "flash" which is pretty distinctive of a bolide/meteor reentry. east of Boston. This is the likely source of the loud boom/explosion.
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what the heck just happened
May 30
Anyone else in Boston area just feel a huge boom?
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maybe I should go back into marketing 😂
May 7
Starting to REALLY see how reaching potential customers is becoming a massive pain point for software startups - esp w AI!
I get so much more messages about software that founders built rapidly that they think will solve some important problem (usually eg AI context/trust/security).
But how will anyone know about it?
It was fast to build, but getting the world to know about it / care about it is increasingly hard/expensive/time-consuming.
And the irony is: the "easier" it is to build, the more the only differentiation is marketing/advertising! (Because the easier it is to build, the more teams build something similar in parallel, and racing to win the market becomes key!)
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Missed the exact rollover moment by a couple days, but: Kineticist.com just hit 1 million unique visitors. Been refreshing this like an odometer for weeks. Wild!
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I’m more of a @beehiiv guy than Substack but this was an interesting read
Apr 21
I know I’ve said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business! You can blame a few things (1/n):
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I have to know did @every intentionally make compound engineering funny? cause this is busting me up @danshipper
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pretty sure we are the first major pinball entity to offer a CLI and an MCP server kineticist.com/build
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colin retweeted
18 Sep 2025
no wars ended
cost of living still high
economy imploding
unlimited money to israel
trumps in epstein files
workers getting kidnapped everywhere
at least he banned trans athletes!
at least he’s canceling kimmel!
you’re an easily tricked adult and a fucking loser
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colin retweeted
17 May 2025
Icon made $6M ARR in 3 weeks with an AI Ad maker 🤯
I created a better one in N8N, at a fraction of the price....
The best part?
I have nothing to gatekeep or sell you
Like, rt & comment "ICON" and I'll send the JSON file
Here's my entire workflow 👇
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