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Experienced BizOps leader in the software industry with spikes in GTM, monetization, analytics, and operations / program management. I love building teams and scaling organizations.

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Lessons from Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron is a prominent tech PR specialist, critic, and host of the Better Offline podcast known for his unfiltered analysis of the modern technology industry. Through his newsletter Where’s Your Ed At, he sharply critiques the "rot economy," the generative AI bubble, and the broken culture

Lessons from Maxence de Villepion

Maxence de Villepion is a French entrepreneur and the co-founder of Cargo, a Y Combinator-backed startup revolutionizing revenue architecture. With over a decade of experience scaling growth engines at unicorns like Spendesk and Ledger, he is a leading voice in Go-To-Market (GTM) engineering. His insights focus on unbundling the traditional

Daily Digest - 2026-04-15

1. Software isn't getting easier. It is probably getting harder. — hari raghavan * Why read: A provocative take on how AI speedups are actually making the pursuit of quality more difficult. * Summary: While AI tools like Claude Code allow developers to ship 100x faster, the "bar" for

Daily Digest - 2026-04-14

1. The Harness Stack: A Layered Model for "Harness Engineering" — Mengdi Chen * Why read: Understand the six-layer architectural framework emerging to standardize how AI agents interact with codebases and environments. * Summary: The post proposes a "Harness Stack" analogous to the OSI model to clarify divergent definitions

Lessons from Katie Burke

Katie Burke is a widely recognized HR leader and executive, best known for her transformative tenure as the Chief People Officer at HubSpot and her current role as COO at Harvey. She pioneered the concept of treating company culture as a continuously iterated product, championing radical transparency and empathetic leadership.

Lessons from Nic Carter

Nic Carter is a prominent philosopher of the cryptocurrency space, renowned for his rigorous defense of Bitcoin's energy consumption, his advocacy for proof of reserves, and his early identification of "Operation Choke Point 2.0." As a founding partner of Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of

Lessons from Nathalie Cargill

Nathalie Cargill is the founder and co-CEO of Longview Philanthropy, where she advises major donors on allocating capital to the world's most pressing and neglected problems. Drawing from her background as a barrister and her deep involvement in the effective altruism community, she champions a rigorous, evidence-based approach

Lessons from David MacKay

Sir David MacKay was a brilliant physicist, a pioneering researcher in machine learning and information theory, and the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. Best known for his uncompromising dedication to data, he forced the world to evaluate complex systems—from neural networks to
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