Hey @WHOOP - what on earth is going on there at the moment? You lost my order twice, multiple weeks without support responses (ongoing since 4 Dec). 6 year long customer about to cancel due to an ongoing horrendous experience. Is anyone home?

@actualAlexJames lol as an Aussie who lived in the US a long time, rest assured we have a far more functional democracy than the US. Send your trillions if you like though. 👍

Amongst all this apocalyptic US political rhetoric people seem to forget we’ve seen both these people in the box seat already.

“A company spokesperson said” shouldn’t be acceptable attribution. It’s a by-phrase for comms team concocted bullshit. Quotes should have to be attributed to an actual person, it’s such a low bar of accountability.

@YouTube - add the ability to filter out those garbage AI voiceover videos that are flooding YouTube and the ability to toggle on/off shorts from my feed, then you’d have me upgrading to a paid account immediately 👌

@theSamPadilla And to think when I moved to the US in 2006 I lived in Soma. A pretty safe if not a bit boring area, then to Hayes Valley in 2009, which was recently gentrified, lots of cafes & restaurants, people talked about how it used to be dangerous. Sounds like it’s all turned to shit.

@mashable Seems like not taking photos of your butthole would also be a viable solution to this problem.

@NotionHQ should acquire @Superhuman. Bring the best email client into the best productivity platform. Integrate them such that emails can be added to a Notion DB as tasks, which in turn can be shown in Notion Calendar. 🙏

@rabbit_hmi Looks great, congrats! In the spirit of eventual smart-phone replacement, can it store contacts, make calls and send messages?

Decorating a Christmas tree with kids is the purest expression of “more is more”.

@elonmusk - what’s up with the absence of an RHD @cybertruck? I was going to get buried in my Defender Puma like some Egyptian Pharaoh in his chariot, until cybertruck came along, so what gives? So many mountains to climb and rivers to cross in kick-ass countries such as Australia, other places, and even Australia. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

RT @KevinNaughtonJr: software engineers after giving a 2 minute demo

Are we actually in a golden age of conversational AI where its optimised purely for quality and hasn't yet be de-tuned for whatever the next generation of ad insertions look like? Looking at you pre-banner web and pre-ad streaming.

I've heard it said that "entrepreneurship is doing what most people won't do so that you can live the way most people can't live". It's a pretty dangerous mindset for people who're starting down the entrepreneurship path as it leads you to think you play the startup game a couple of years then spend the rest of your life on the yacht. When in actual fact it's far more likely it'll take years to master, significant instability and failures before you have a meaningful win (maybe). A better mindset is that you're in this for the long haul. You need to fall in love with the process. You're likely to fail (a bunch), but are going fight hard as hell to avoid it (celebrating failure is startup theatre BS). When a failure is unavoidable, focus on failing-up instead of resetting to zero. Use momentum from each win to slingshot yourself to the next win. Add value for others wherever you can, be the rising tide. Importantly - Spend time understanding what the end game looks like for your given company (this isn't just about VC businesses). If you intend to IPO, learn what that actually looks like and work towards it. Same applies if you want a company throwing off great dividends, suitable for a trade sale, etc. - That should be more than an awkward line in the pitch deck, it should be a driving focus. Then every action you take should be viewed through the lens of getting you closer to that objective.

@Humane Love your work. Any word on Australian release date? And can it be used on the same cell number instead of requiring a new number? (EG: Like a smart watch)

@Apple Not to knit pick but Isn’t Sydney-London direct on Qantas 22hrs 30mins?

This is rare and will be obvious to some, but it's common enough it warrants a mention - If you're speaking with a founder who trivialises raising capital, especially for anomalously large seed rounds - hightail it out of there. Yes, there are exceptional founders with great networks of active investors and superb track records of delivering shareholder returns who will find it easier than a less credentialed founder. Even so, they will pretty universally acknowledge those advantages in relative - not absolute - terms, it's still a lot of work to find the right capital partners, especially in the current risk-off market. The other 99% of the time you're speaking with someone masking the fact they have zero experience raising capital. Misrepresenting their experience translates into a general lack of intellectual honesty and means they're less likely to assess/communicate problems and threats more broadly. But coming back to the raise, expect to see: - A total lack of sub-surface detail about the raise. - Over-indexing their wealthy friend's desire to throw money into their idea. - Expecting to leverage their privilege, then learning it's illusory. - Plans predicated on a quick raise, so far more likely to run out of funds. - A general hubris that shows they're un-coachable (this will be a persistent feature beyond the raise). In my experience top founders rarely trivialise any part of building a successful company. Instead they acknowledge the obstacles and have a detailed understanding of how to overcome them. (Note this post is not directed at anyone specific, it's my thoughts based on many, many conversations with founders including an occasional one showing these attributes)

Funny how quickly AI-art has become normalised. This was a single sentence prompt when messing around with DALL-E with my kids and I'd happily hang on my wall.

@BlueyCommunity Hammerbarn Specials

@BlueyCommunity "The 4 hour work week" We often marvel at the size of their house and how great their lifestyle is vs how much work the grown-ups seem to do.