For those of you looking for a sign, Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off preorders of Incorruptible, now through 3/26. Premium Members receive an additional 10% discount. Amazing deal if you’re building a mission-driven organization. Use code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/incorrupti...

Can confirm

This looks like a really interesting new book on the impacts of PE on everyday life

This is one of the absolute best conversations on AI and software I've heard in a while. (I listen to a lot of stuff about AI.) @howard.fm is an expert & practitioner who cuts through the noise & false dichotomies, to talk about the joys & pitfalls of human machine collab youtu.be/dHBEQ-Ryo24?...

Early-bird tickets for Startup Day 2026 end tonight at midnight. $195 today. $295 tomorrow. 15 founder talks. 1:1 investor meetings. Co-Founder Match. @ericries.bsky.social + Terry Myerson keynotes. Startup Fair. Free copy of Eric's new book. seattleflow.org/startupday

The Incorruptible book tour is coming together. Where should I go? Suggestion box open 🗳️

Someone described two people to me by saying "they both work at Patagonia" as if that explained everything about them. And honestly? It kind of did. I was supposed to instantly understand their values, their lifestyle, their ethics. So rare for a company name to communicate an entire worldview.

What’s wild about LLMs is that they will eventually prove or disprove many esoteric theories ranging from ancient spiritual wisdom to postmodernism - including many I was taught were unfalsifiable

how is anyone supposed to trust companies that act like this???

Looking forward to hosting @ericries.bsky.social for a fireside chat at @longnow.org on April 7 in San Francisco. We'll be discussing his new book "Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad…and How Great Companies Stay Great." Come hang out! longnow.org/talks/02026-...

Casey with an excellent clear-eyed analysis as usual

Long form is the good form

This is great reporting from @noamscheiber.bsky.social as usual. Patagonia is such a famously mission-driven company, and yet workers at the store level still feel they need to organize. Very curious to see how it plays out.

hey @karenhao.bsky.social, congrats on the new podcast (and thanks for all your reporting in the midst of this crazy maelstrom)

So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

Behold the customer who wrote to complain about the lack of ketchup at their local Costco... ... and got a reply from the CEO

nice to see federated video platforms working together

"30 Under 30" list used to be a badge of honor. Now, it’s becoming a red flag for governance failure. Kalder’s founder allegedly faked $1.2M in revenue. Perhaps investors trusted the Forbes list prestige over data. False proxies like awards don’t always equate to value creation.

This is critical to understand. In the academic literature, this is called "surrogation" where a metric becomes a surrogate for the thing itself. @sethgodin.bsky.social calls these "false proxies" which are far more dangerous even than vanity metrics.

AMA: uptrusting.com/post/4BpEYN/...

Great thread but I especially liked this bit about Arendt at the end. worth a read

Is it generally recognized that r/AskHistorians is the best subreddit? If you've never checked it out, you owe it to yourself to see what a heavily-moderated yet deeply researched online social space can look like: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

This is a must-read look at the darker side of vibe coding

Guy Kawasaki and Madisun Nuismer have written a new book called _Everybody Has Something to Hide_. It explains why and how to use Signal. For the next five days, you can download the Kindle edition at no cost here: www.amazon.com/Everybody-Ha...

You love to see it... more of this, please. For folks abandoning TikTok after its US takeover, consider using something like @skylight.social or @sprk.so or similar systems that give you a similar feeling but on an open protocol underneath so you'll never have to "move" again.

The ancient art of close reading is poised for a comeback. I'm excited about this one: www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

This is a beautifully written, powerful and *almost* optimistic piece about American democracy. And btw, thank you @adambonica.bsky.social for taking parental leave, and discussing it publicly. That is one of the most feminist actions fathers can take! open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Misha Esipov is the co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit. In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I talk with Misha about what it takes to build a company inside one of the hardest parts of finance to break into.

Congratulations to @jasoncrawford.org - looking forward to reading this in book form when it comes out

I have no problem with Cuban taking 100,000 angry Quote Posts to the face, if it means that even 1 extra person avoids bankruptcy and homelessness because they heard about a way to make their medicine just "really" expensive instead of "I will lose my house!" expensive. Seriously. He can take it.

Important finding that contradicts how most young people are counseled and coached

Nothing to see here

An absolute must read. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, is one of the books that I read while I brought ANLMG into power. @ericries.bsky.social thank you for this masterpiece, it helped a lot. #LeanStartup #Startups #Entrepreneur #Business #BookSky

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org

This is a plot point in Naomi Alderman’s book The Future

Celebrating books that started my career 📚: 
The Lean Startup by @ericries.bsky.social. This book made it so clear why startups (when done correctly) can move so much faster, and I instantly knew this was the kind of environment I'd thrive in - and I still do to this day!

@howard.fm now on O'Reilly: www.oreilly.com/radar/build-...

Most companies scale by cutting corners. Seth Goldman built a brand by refusing to. Seth is one of the founders of Honest Tea, a longtime chair at Beyond Meat, and the cofounder of Just Iced Tea.

Red Queen Bio is "is trying to make sure the AI industry's defenses are growing at least as rapidly as those who seek to exploit models to harm humans". www.reuters.com/technology/o... I hope to see a lot more companies and non-profits started with this kind of mission. Also love the PBC trend.

Counting down the top caves in the US that are not (yet) named for a prominent politician or statesman. 5. Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park, Nevada - Beautiful limestone cavern with intricate formations.

The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?

Most companies optimize for profit. Devoted Health was built to serve people. In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Todd Park, co-founder of Devoted Health and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer, to explore what it looks like to design a company for human flourishing at scale.

Seeing Ann Leckie make this point on here is kind of breaking my brain because she wrote a 1200 page trilogy with this idea as one of the major themes lol. Go check out Ancillary Justice if you like scifi because it rules.

This is a chronic problem in all kinds of metrics-obsessed systems (OKRs, compensation, engagement, etc). We easily draw conclusions about cause and effect without double-checking the intermediate steps in the causality. cc @sethgodin.bsky.social's work on false proxies

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, co-founders of Beekman 1802, to explore how a small act of compassion grew into a multimillion-dollar skincare brand rooted in community and purpose.

this was a good reminder, for anyone still dealing with Office subscription pain

No startups, no science: How the Republican Administration switched off America's most important engine of economic success. steveblank.com/2025/10/13/n...

I purchased this on launch day - very excited to read it. Ken Liu is a phenomenal writer. PS. If you haven't read The Grace of Kings you're really missing out.

Lukas Biewald has been shaping the future of AI for nearly two decades. In this episode, we explore how his early passion for the board game Go, his hard-won lessons as a founder, and his focus on alignment and culture helped him build Weights & Biases into a trusted toolmaker in machine learning.

solveit is on ProductHunt today: www.producthunt.com/products/sol... feel free to ask any questions