the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

Hey managers: people can love a job without letting it take over their lives. Detaching from work doesn’t reflect the absence of passion. It reveals the presence of other priorities. Being plugged in 24/7 is a recipe for burnout. Setting boundaries is vital to well-being.

Yesterday Lands End was too quiet. Today way too f*cking loud. Sounds like crap & feeding back. Hope they fix before ff. @sfoutsidelands

Amazon: “You haven’t ordered anything today. It would be a real shame if something were to happen to that shopping hand.”

Google’s home devices and the Google Home app are almost unfathomably bad. They have absolutely shit the bed on all this stuff. On a related note, def DO NOT buy the Nest Wifi Pro - 6E. Slow, buggy, and maddening to set up. Looks pretty but it’s expensive trash.

Mission Impossible: “Look! I’m fighting!” “Watch me, watch me! I’m running!” “Hey! I’m really riding this dirt bike. Like everywhere! Look!!!” “See? I’m on a parachute now! It’s me! See my face?!?” “Still running! Look how far I can run!” Best, - Tom Cruise

We don’t need to imagine the existential threat from AI. We’re already living with it. It’s called a public company and it’s optimized to collect “points” without regard to externalities.

I have some amazing good news to share! We are thrilled to announce that we have successfully raised over ~$3.5M for our seed round at @tr3bellar! 🎉 I'm particularly proud of the remarkable group of people that joined our adventure.

I’m only here because the Threads app stopped loading content.

Looking for the good stuff.

5 hours without power. Finally back. Now back to sleep.

Look at this amazing view I have at Stern Grove music festival. Priceless!

Do these high quality ads count toward my 600 tweet limit?

The best use of ChatGPT I've heard of yet. apple.news/AEMYH2qK_QqKO5pSE…

It’s like no one that operates a streaming service gives a flying fuck about dialogue. MUSIC! EFFECTS!!! mumble, mumble, mumble MUSIC!!!!

This is the kind of hard hitting journalism I look to WSJ to deliver every day.

Reach for the sky. DeVry. It was always right there in the slogan! They’re robbing you. (btw Woody looks constipated here)

can i just say legacy admissions are the biggest affirmative action in the world and like, the ivies are absolutely stuffed with arrogant failsons

Not a hater. I’m a fan. But it occurs to me that I’ve never seen Guy Fieri cook a god damn thing and that seems… weird?