⚗️ Wetware allows you to safely run code you didn’t write, don’t trust, and cannot see.

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https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/09/15/how-wyoming-women-turned-a-hobby-into-largest-wool-mill-in-the-west Dropped this into the ai & asked for entrepreneurial lessons Good stuff

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You'd be surprised what inspiration you can find in reading books from investment titans ... like this "second order thinking" idea which initially comes from Howard Marks but here's adapted by Anne-Laure from Ness Labs (if interested, full article 👇)

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Send that cold email, cold DM. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? You miss 99% of the chances that you don't take. It's better to fail while trying than to fail to try! Go get it!

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Interestingly enough — there are still many people calling Strategy's borrowing for BTC purchases ponzi 🤔 But Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) isn’t running a Ponzi scheme — it is doing what everyone borrowing money to build or produce does, only their choice is a highly leveraged Bitcoin bet. Right now, the company holds about $63B in Bitcoin, backed by $8B in debt and $14B in preferred stock. That's debt exposure around 30%. Nothing dramatic or strange. If everything were sold today, debt holders get paid first, preferred investors second, and common shareholders would still have roughly $41B left. So the model isn’t “new money paying old investors” like a proper Ponzi 🤓 The real risk is simpler: If Bitcoin rises, shareholders benefit. If Bitcoin crashes hard, common shareholders absorb most of the pain. So, yeah, there's a risk, but not a fraudulent scheme. Btw: that preferred stock from Strategy pays 11.5% 🤔 not bad!

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One of the best projects of recent is pumpcade. Pop Punk had an idea around prediction markets, launched a coin for it. Won $250k from pumpfun hackathon. Raised $1m pre-seed on that. Raised $5m seed afew weeks after. All the while having a coin. Coin gave visibility and garnered community support. Now coin is core to the platform as well. https://x.com/pumpcade/status/2044053149451743586?s=46

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at shisha with brown boys JPmorgan can't stop us

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https://x.com/mal_shaik/status/2050285908730212574?s=20

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OK, I am on STH FR FR

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products only win when they're instantly understood it's been hard for our users to explain how much better our odds are compared to traditional lotteries, so we're trying some new messaging: https://x.com/megapot/status/2050263748016017548

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PTSD (Post Traumatic Startup Disorder) is actually real. Succeed or fail, it really is a process. May write something about it when it’s said and done, I think more founders should share about this.

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Six weeks ago Tally was a Google Doc and a walkie-talkie. I work at a Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland. Every day I watched staff try to track behavioral incidents in real time — calling out over walkies, scribbling in notebooks, hoping someone remembered to log it later. The system wasn’t working. Information got lost. Kids were noisy. Staff were stressed. So I went home one night and built a prototype. The next day I brought it in and had staff test it. They loved it. We made some tweaks and started using it for real. That was Tally. Two weeks into the pilot across two Boys & Girls Club sites — 146 incidents logged. Staff replaced every system they were using. Here’s what they said without being prompted: “We used to have multiple systems… now it’s just all here.” “Better than saying it over the walkie… kids are nosy.” “It’s kept me accountable to actually log incidents.” The tool does one thing: lets staff log a behavioral incident in under a minute, in real time, visible to everyone on shift. No paper. No walkies. No relying on memory. Two more sites are onboarding this week. I don’t come from a software background. I built this because I saw a problem every single day and couldn’t stop thinking about how to fix it. That’s still the only reason I’m doing this. If you work in youth programming, after-school, or school operations and this sounds familiar — I’d love to hear how your team handles it today.

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The 3-Question Muscle Test for using Agencies in your project/business Before you sign anything with an outside team, run it through these three questions. (Add this one to your framework toolbox alongside BMC, Lean Canvas, and the rest.) 1. The Customer Question: Will my customer or community ever talk to this work, or feel its outcome directly? If YES → human muscle. You do it. Period. If NO → safe to consider help. 2. The Ownership Question: Will my team be able to run this themselves in 60-90 days, with no babysitting? If YES → green light. Sign the deal. If NO → red flag. They're selling you a service, not a muscle. 3. The Knowledge Question: When the engagement ends, who walks away stronger - them or my team? If MY TEAM → perfect. They built you something you own. If THEM → run. That's the same agency trap, just with a shinier sticker. Two YES-then-YES answers + a "my team" on the last one = go. Anything else = walk away. Agreed?

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@jonathancolton - been cooking off the back of our discussions. Would really appreciate your feedback on this JTBD positioning doc, if you've got the bandwidth. Feedback in general is appreciated by all 🙏 https://notes.alembic.network/ipfs/Qma4c4iGp8DQtor3w62ybYmttPLEqjxWsdQztsNWZo71ME

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⚗️ Cloudflare Workers sells "compute for rent", not "compose untrusted code". That's the gap we need to close for agentic systems.

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