Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

All engineers will be knowledge engineers

After many deployed, specialized agents and attemps of the same, I've realized that we lack the basic knowledge foundations and operational truth of most businesses. We can't even know the right use cases, yet alone deploy effective agents if we don't have the true context of how one business runs. Every organization runs on knowledge that isn't written down anywhere. A support lead resolves an escalation because she remembers a workaround from two years ago. A sales rep closes a deal because he knows the one pricing exception the VP approved over Slack. A warehouse manager reroutes a shipment because he's seen this supplier delay before. This can't be extracted from SoPs, docs or workshops. We need a knowledge layer that extracts and exposes the truth of how ine business runs. AI changes that equation completely. And most companies aren't ready.

The most effective software teams at the end of 2026 will be wildly more productive than even the most effective software teams from the beginning of 2025. In less than 24 calendar months we'll have gone from one paradigm for software development to a new one that yields vastly more software than before. A single developer with multiple agents running in parallel paired with a software delivery process optimized for agentic development will run circles around everyone else.

The purpose of knowledge is action.

RT @JamesClear: Surround yourself with people who have the same goals as you. Rise together.

By the way... Buyers don't read top to bottom. They hunt for proof you understand their specific situation.

People only remember 2-3 things about you and your company. Be extremely thoughtful when choosing them. Early on, many startups (and personal brands) make the same mistake: they try to be everything to everyone. ​ And the market remembers none of it. Human working memory is limited. The old rule was that it could hold 7 items at once. Modern research suggests it's closer to 4 items. When information gets complex, that number drops to 2 or 3. I like to visualize this as the egg throw challenge. Throw one egg at someone and they'll grab it. Throw 5 eggs at them, and they'll drop them all. One impactful story always beats five scattered narratives. Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway by knowing exactly what he didn't know. He calls this the "Circle of Competence." "Know your circle of competence, and stick within it. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital." — Warren Buffett When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he reduced a confusing array of dozens of products into a simple 2x2 grid. He forced the entire company to focus on just four things. WhatsApp became popular because it did one thing very well: instant messaging. There were dozens of chat tools with a million features before it. Yet WhatsApp was able to cut through the noise. Most of what you say will be forgotten. That is a fact of human cognition. But the 2–3 things that stick? Those become your reputation. Don't let those things be random. Architect them and create a memorable brand identity in 2026.

Consultants love their "Good, Fast, Cheap - pick two" triangle that keeps you in check. SaaS locks you in, so you work around their solution, not them around your business. Not anymore. Buy vs. Build is going away. Deliver is what's left. markopav.com/buy-vs-build-is…

Reminder: still, there has never been a better time to build.

Don’t trade opportunity for salary

Doing something with AI reminds of building the first html website, level of curiosity I haven't had in a while. Like "what happens when I do this.." fun

as a parent, i will never push a career path onto my kids. i would give them full freedom to decide which AI lab they want to join for $100 mil

I now understand why my dad used to wake up at 4AM and just sit at the kitchen table for an hour

Did anyone build an MCP that based of what you type in cursor, updates the team with what you are working on currently (in Linear, Slack, etc)? Need that, if not I'll just stick something together

My wife does say I am always making other people’s problems my problems 👀

Lets gooo!

Founders with incredibly impressive backgrounds seem to have the hardest time bragging about their accomplishments when fundraising. I think because they don’t think their accomplishments are that impressive, it’s just normal to them.