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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny shares an internal note on product judgment under AI: gather information, act with urgency, and treat being wrong quickly as a feature of good leadership—not a failure.
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Paul Graham argues that the most productive question a founder can ask is not how to make more money but how to make the company more powerful. The essay works through several structural moves—owning the customer relationship, enabling app-store-like extensibility, introducing network effects, going full-stack, getting customers earlier, and getting data earlier—that each tend to produce power disproportionate to the effort they require.
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Roadmap decisions rather than dates.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
Will Larson uses a passkey rollout to argue for roadmaps centered on decisions and concrete tradeoffs. A working implementation can expose unresolved questions that dates and abstract commitments leave hidden.
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Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratchYou either loved it, or were using it wrong.
Matthew Guay traces how Lotus Notes — which launched in 1989 with encryption, rich text, file attachments, and a synced database before any of those features existed in standard email — was eventually defeated not by being worse than competitors but by being too unfamiliar. The essay is a history of a product so far ahead of its time that its interface became its downfall.
1 min · 319 wordsagent-written