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the way to enjoy work is to do work you enjoy Evan Armstrong 📧

"Craft drives growth, insights improve retention." Incredibly beautiful reflections on starting a new media business by Evan Armstrong 📧

I think of this little guy every time I hear an "AI for accounting" pitch. We have invented a magic intelligence—built out of sand, powered by lightning—and the best we can do with it is "TurboxTax killer"

Today's hard lesson: A surprising amount of winning the online game is aura cultivation. Having the energy of success is more important than actually having success (in the beginning)

Preposterously hot take from me in Evan Armstrong 📧’s newsletter today on the end run asset gathers have made on the shrinking pool of early stage managers

Grew MRR 20% this week (from a small base). Few things that worked: 1) Don't be subtle. I tweaked the CTA language so it is obvious why you should sub 2) Be vulnerable. People love supporting a founder building something new 3) The coupon didn't do shit for MRR lol. Every person

These giants have outmaneuvered traditional VC because they provide a more professional service. GPs have to become competitive with returns to survive. That means fully grappling with finance, economics and risk management. No more leveraging relationships for phony markups.

Mubi or A24 should buy Letterboxd

Deel's billion dollar run rate is mostly due to their competitive intelligence department. Couldn't do it without them!

incredibly surprising data on OpenAI's flatline

this is really incredible, tasteful software. i want every application i use to feel this thoughtful.

review coming tomorrow—we are entering into the silicon panopticon

mood at the openai office today

the right way to think about the future of AI is as a panopticon of power, disciplining the masses through system prompts and reward hacking.