Josh

I don't make resolutions, ever since I discovered the two perfect ones years ago:

1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself.

2. Do what you already do, but more so.

In that earlier era, when we still drank from garden hoses, losing a job sucked, but it mostly didn’t take your community with it. In this new era, losing a job means getting gutted. Not only do you lose your paycheck, but you lose access to all the people and places where you used to have your non-work-but-actually-at-work fun.

In a PLG model, the product sells itself through intuitive design, freemium tiers, and frictionless onboarding. Developers don’t need a community advocate or a conference talk—they sign up, try the product, and decide for themselves.

"For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst." (Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism)

I think there are legitimate use cases for these tools (think automation) but the one thing they cannot and will never be able to do is replace what happens in a human brain in that moment of crisis. truly insane that we're pushing an entire generation to forget how to think

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry