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what you think a productive engineer's day looks like: focus time 9a-5p what it actually looks like: - retro - team sync - daily standup - refine the backlog - quarterly planning meeting - meeting to read the one-pager from the quarterly planning meeting - focus time 4:45p-5p peak performance

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startup fact: 98% of founders quit looking for a new domain name right before they find the perfect one page 5594 of squarespace will surely have the right .com for you keep going

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? chatgpt put me on a performance improvement plan has this happened to anyone else if i'm not supposed to make jokes why is it called daily standup

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"we posted this role 10 months ago, why hasn't it been filled" the interview process: - phone screen - first round with an ai agent - virtual call with a bridge troll that asks three riddles - tight five tech-themed standup - rejection email saying they've filled the role internally (they haven't)

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i am beyond blessed to inhabit the earth at the same time as scrum, a project management solution of considerable power

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agent #15123 thinks i'm hilarious, ok

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startup mascots i would get a beer with: 1) posthog hedgehog (had to) 2) github octocat (but i'd limit it to 1 beer instead of 1 beer / hand) 3) duolingo duo owl (even though it would spend the whole time guilting me for not keeping up with my lessons) who did i miss?

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how i look explaining to the entire company that we should pivot to hedgehogs-as-a-service because "i've already bought the domain name and if we don't use it i'm going to look pretty stupid"

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the executive team after buying the ".ai" domain doesn't magically solve all of their product's problems

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just wrote a whole email without using ai tools

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what they say: "we're a data-driven organization" what they mean: "we'll set up a fancy dashboard that eventually produces the insight that changing the button color has no impact on user engagement. at that point, we'll panic and copy a startup that's 2 years further down the road from us."

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before ai: - try to build a product - get stuck on an error message - give up and no one ever gets to use it now, with ai: - try to build a product - it works and you can ship it - still, no one wants to use my new app that helps you train your toddler to become your executive assistant

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sorry, but it's not a quick call unless it comes from the appel rapide region of france otherwise, it's just sparkling outbound

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"what'd you get done this week?" the same thing i get done every week promote organizational synergies for key partner teams, focusing on seamless integration and cross-functional collaboration, with the ultimate goal of picking low-hanging fruit no one does it better

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vcs reaching out to unicorn founders who left them out of the last round

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vcs forwarding an announcement from openai to a portco founder with the subject "U see this?"

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founders when their friends won't sign an nda to hear about their startup (uber for dogs)

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proud of myself today had a meeting scheduled from 9-9:30 through relentless execution and focus, i was able to end the meeting early at 9:28 and give my team a few crucial minutes back i'm tearing up right now thinking about what they were able to accomplish with that unexpected time

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me after carrying the weight of being the one to say "happy friday"

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The SQL Editor in @posthog.com is one of those power user features I appreciate the most. Full power to query anything! 🙌

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getting knuckle tattoos that say DATA DRVN

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i bet the first time a project manager said "let's focus on the low-hanging fruit" the whole meeting just lost their minds

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i come from a long line of people who promote cross-functional collaboration and synergistic competencies in an enterprise setting

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1. company raises $1mm in funding 2. coincidentally, other company raises $1mm in funding 3. they each sign $1mm contracts with each other 4. both are now at $1mm arr 5. both raise $10mm at $100mm 6. repeat the process until your revenue is $10 trillion 7. acquire microsoft why is no one doing this

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who is building cursor for chatgpt

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looking at the vc who ghosted you after he said uber for dogs was a "terrible idea" after dog-based transportation overtakes taxis in 2032

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what you think matters at a startup: - purpose - the customers - fulfilling work and mission what actually matters: - job title - if you got "firstname@" as your email - your extensive collection of conference badges that's literally it

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just had lunch with a billionaire asked him what his secret to success is "compound interest. i had 93 cents to my name in 1025. but after just 1000 years of compound interest, i'm sitting on a $4.3 billion fortune. all it took was patience" unfortunately, this lesson will fall on deaf ears

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every company has their strengths. microsoft owns the enterprise meta has the world's best designers google is world-renowned for their brand oracle apple invests more than anyone in industrial design and brand

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startup life hack: take all your quick calls on one day i just finished 997 quick calls, enough for the next ~18 months now no one has any need to call me schedule instantly freed up

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easy (and underrated) skills to add to your resume: - shows up on time to meetings - never sends messages on weekends - able to create elite custom slack emojis - always remembers to say "happy friday" - can and will ask "what's our ai strategy?" unprompted what would you add to this perfect list

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any developer born after 2003 can't code all they know is prompt, ask chatgpt, accept all changes, say "it still doesn't work", and ask ai

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getting ready to add value to every meeting by saying "so what's our ai strategy" unprompted

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achieving inbox zero is actually incredibly straightforward if you delete useless emails with subjects like "SALE" and "Payment past due" and "Final eviction notice"

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cursor ai - $20 chatgpt - $20 grok - $8 copilot - $10 claude - $20 my own personal ai agent running on a data center i built on the side a remote mountain, james-bond-villain-style: $39,014,124 gemini - $20 how anyone has enough money to try these ai tools is beyond me

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microsoft continues the quest to create a device that can run Teams efficiently i'd estimate we are still probably decades away

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what you think happens when you have a kid: - there's no time for work - you have to sacrifice your career - you give up on some dream you had what actually happens: - you gain a free notetaker - free negotiating practice whenever it's bedtime - one more person you can hop on a quick call with

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2024: "our frontier ai outperforms all other llms on this random math test" 2025: "our frontier ai is 0.3% smarter at solving this one random coding problem" 2026: "our flagship ai makes funnier jokes than yours" 2027: " our ai has a better billing experience" 2028: "our company doesn't use ai"

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stop thinking you need: - investors - an mba - a big network - permission to start what you do need: 1) dark mode 2) generational wealth to tackle the hardest problems (tinder for dogs) 3) an ai agent building you that $1b startup while you focus on more important things (browsing linkedin)

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worst ways to keep your top employees: - swag - retreats - “company values” best ways to keep your top employees: - hide their salary behind an unsolvable riddle - annual rsus, but vesting in neptune years (~165 earth years) - if they're ever upset, form a new shell corporation to poach them

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you ever meet someone who you just KNOW doesn't make informed data-driven decisions at scale to seamlessly integrate enterprise tools while looping in key stakeholders in a dynamic workplace environment 🙄

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Max wishes a happy Valentine's Day to Joe and Lauren. Get your photo with Max at posthog.com/photobooth

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cold outreach: the prospect has no clue who you are lukewarm outreach: you know the prospect's gardener (they just fired the gardener) hot outreach: you got the prospect's mail by accident so you have a legal obligation to talk to them surface-of-the-sun outreach: the prospect is you what'd i miss

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- one is mapped to a slack message that says "any updates on this?" - one is mapped to a slack message that says "quick call?" - one is mapped to a slack message that says "what's our ai strategy?"

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agi tracker: can form a sentence can write an email can write a movie script can work as customer support can work as customer support and crack a little joke <-- you are here can make an original, constructive linkedin comment can tell me what salesforce does clearly, still a long way to go

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on the surface, people see: - hilarious - dedicated dad - hedgehog-themed business what they don't see: - raising hedgehogs is hard - difficult being this hilarious - 1000s of inbound requests to "hop on a quick call"

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what you think they mean by "non-traditional path into venture capital" - astronaut - volunteered around the world - doctor turned environmentalist turned musician what they actually mean - i didn't get an mba - i went to berkeley instead of stanford - i applied through indeed instead of linkedin

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apple's new "invites" app is easily the most innovative thing i have ever seen

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Our LLM observability beta is progressing quickly, with a new Typescript SDK, a Vercel AI SDK, and full support for Anthropic. See our docs for more info: https://posthog.com/docs/ai-engineering

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someone needs to stop these ai sdrs

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