Startup to corporate

Any successful business will become a corporate one day. For years, I’ve been wondering how businesses become so rigid, bureaucratic and political. Early days at a startup hand you a lot of rope: there is so much to build and never enough people to build it, so no one is watching closely enough to stop […]

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Compound or rot

Your habits are compounding. Both the good and bad ones. Each day, your actions either support or sabotage you. Destructive habits spread faster because they deliver relief before the cost appears. It almost always starts as a reward: something you gave yourself permission to do just once. It could be a bad day at work,

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Modern gambling

I build my own payment apps. All with the help of AI. The only thing is that no one cares. No users. No traction. No profit. This is not true, but there is a pattern behind it. I scroll past three or four of these every morning: polished landing pages, zero reviews, founder celebrating the

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Worst actor ever

You don’t know how to talk to people. They don’t want to talk to you. Every rejection echoed these words in my mind, amplifying my self-doubt. A rejection message is actually better than silence: at least your brain has something to argue with. This year, I finally joined a public speaking group I’d long avoided.

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Tools over people

AI fucked up the world we live in. And yet I keep using it every single day. AI now accelerates app delivery, streamlines processes, and organizes schedules efficiently. I kept hearing that all this technological boom is not real AI. “These are LLMs (Large Language Models) that predict what to answer next” – I hear.

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