How does the GOP reconcile running on fiscal discipline and then skyrocketing the deficit? This is a great read: www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...

I don't know if it's inflation or the cost of injecting AI to every tool, but I feel like SaaS subscription prices are so much higher than they used to be

This notification is making Steve Jobs spin in his immaculately minimalist grave

My goal in life is to be more useful than a HEIC file. It's a low bar.

Career goal #1: be in a career where I never feel like I have to open up LinkedIn

Noise-cancelling headphones that block the sound of you chewing hard pretzels

I hope my homeschool children will one day appreciate how nice it is that they can wake up, put on some footie pajamas, and be entirely ready for their day

Lurking in the dark corners of my mind for more than 20 years, it turns out, has been the knowledge of how to beat all the levels in Goldeneye for N64

Face ID, but it works when you're yawning

Apple awkwardly jamming into my mac settings menu an announcement about something called "Image Playground" is so indicative of their desperate AI catchup strategy. Seeing what's effectively an ad in a system settings window: what is this, windows?

They should make an "unsubscribe" button that works for just all emails

ChatGPT just helped me center an item in CSS on the first try. I'm now willing to admit AI is the future.

While I'm spitting out product recommendations, bentoboxapp.com has changed how I use my dual screen mac setup. Highly recommend.

Granola is the best meeting note taker I've used and it's not even close

Another six actionable reads for startup leaders. Featuring: - Product discovery basics from @producttalk.bsky.social - Prioritize better, from @johannarothman.bsky.social - Understanding AI agents - Buy, don't build, from @cjgustafson.bsky.social - Hire people who do the work

As someone with first and last names that are easy to misspell: it's easier than ever before to double-check you spelled someone's name right, meaning that *not* checking is increasingly a signal of carelessness and/or disrespect.

Recommend. hardcover.app/books/how-ci...

I just spent one hour and fifty-five minutes writing this post about why I track every minute of my working day dawnchorus.substack.com/p/why-i-trac...

I decided to give Replit a try. It incredibly created an entire application from a single prompt, and I have now burned all my free usage telling it repeatedly that login still isn't working

Just obliterated the publish button on this week's Six for Startups. - SEO advice for startups - Building your own tools with AI via @kevinroose.com - DEI regs & your recruiting messaging - Being biased for action via @mooreds.com - Why you should focus on an ICP via @asmartbear.com & more

Already defeated my children at Bluey Monopoly. So yeah, I'm having a pretty great day.

Just published this week's Six For Startups: - avoiding the sunk-cost fallacy - why Triplebyte abandoned PMF - how to keep your product options open (via @paulisthrivving.xyz) - deciding to be profitable - how your tech-stack fits into delivering value to customers (via @merkmoi.bsky.social)

product management job description red flag 🟥: they view product management and project management as interchangeable experience!

Just hit publish on this week's edition of Six for Startups. This week includes guidance on: - finding potential customers to talk to from @asmartbear.com - An intro to outcome thinking from @cwodtke.bsky.social - Business model visualizations - How to use slack better from @mheap.dev - & more

Just redesigned my website. Give me feedback. Krasny.co

"You want ID? How's this for ID: I'm old enough to remember emailing myself document files in case my computer crashed"

This summer's most stacked concert series is... woodland park zootunes?

I cannot stand substack's subscription flow that asks me to also subscribe to a bunch of other publications. It's so unfriendly to the user, and clearly just the fever dream of a growth hacker.

Just hit publish on this week's edition of Six for Startups. Topics: - The role of trust in growing teams - Why Ashby doesn't do roadmaps - When planning helps you move faster - Getting better at making decisions - Why VCs aren't out to pick winners - How to fix your brain by fixing things

Step 1 to fixing democracy: revoke the voting rights of anyone who has ever posted in the comments section of a news article

If you're going to insist I login via magic link, that email better be instant

Figured out how to manually migrate a wordpress site between hosting providers. Patting myself on the back for that one.

“This one weird trick for landing a job at a top VC firm”

This article is a shining advertisement for whichever PR firm this startup is using.

I think we're entering a new paradigm in tooling for small teams I'm working with a group that needs a CRM. There's about 12 of us who need to access it, and with most CRMs having seat-based pricing, it gets expensive quickly. We don't have much budget.

I wrote this for founders struggling to figure out how to talk about their products to prospective customers. There's a lot to be learned from Paulie Walnuts and Netflix dawnchorus.substack.com/p/no-late-fe...

So this is what it feels like to live inside a pump and dump scheme

In severance terms, LinkedIn is for innies

I’m starting to see posts about how to optimize your Reddit posts for conversion. Please don’t LinkedIn Reddit. Let us have one nice thing.

This is a great read about the NTSB's investigative process and why it's so effective at uncovering systemic gaps (and correcting them). asteriskmag.com/issues/05/wh...

I wish there was an alternative to LinkedIn for staying connected with professional contacts online

Just published another edition of Six for Startups. sixforstartups.beehiiv.com/p/six-for-ja... - Does design matter? - Four simple steps to PMF - Intellectual honesty for founders - The state of venture capital - Building environments that support good decisions - The danger of customization debt

I'll know I've done a good job raising my children if they know better than to use "wifi" to describe any and all kinds of internet connectivity

So Bob Menendez went from senator to sentenced in 16 months, but they couldn’t even get Trump into a courtroom in 4 years? What a massive fumble

I've started a new weekly newsletter for startup founders. It's six actionable reads about startup strategy, product, team building, and more. Check it out. sixforstartups.beehiiv.com/p/six-for-st...

It seems as though there are constantly new CRMs being built, and yet nobody has ever been satisfied with their CRM

my parenting style

How long until we're to the point where it's "they're not nazis - nazis used trains, and they're moving people around on buses." ?

New design. If you’re looking for some new arts and to support an amazing local org, here you go.

I recently found myself living a product management parable when my pipes froze. I wrote about it here dawnchorus.substack.com/p/real-life-...