Silva Menezes🇲🇿🌍

Building a tech company with a dollar and a dream

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

there is something deeply unsettling about a person who already knows what they need to do but keeps choosing not to. not because they are lazy. not because they don’t care. but because comfort has gotten so familiar to them that it started feeling like home or a place they feel like they belong and that’s the most dangerous place to live.

you already know what to do, you’re just negotiating with comfort. you read the quotes. you watched the videos. you said “this week is different” more times than you can count. and yet here you are. same place. same excuses. same comfort zone. here’s the dangerous part about comfort nobody really talks about. it doesn’t ruin your life in obvious ways. it’s subtle. it shows up as “i’ll start tomorrow”. “just one more day”. “i’m tired today”. i deserve a break”. and little by little you slowly become okay with staying the same. and the worst part? It’s not even lying. you do deserve rest. but there’s a difference between rest and hiding. and deep down, you already know which one you’ve been doing.

there are versions of you that’s capable of far more then you can imagine and they aren’t waiting for the right moment, they’re waiting for you to stop negotiating with fear. the only difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. so do it tired. do it scared. do it when it’s inconvenient. do the thing you fear cause “what you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do”. and all that kind of courage you just show will give you something you cannot fake. a quiet confidence. a stillness. the kind that comes from knowing you didn’t negotiate when it got hard.

so just get out of your comfort zone and do it, do it slow, do it tired, and it doesn’t even matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop everything will workout. just start moving and remember your life will begin at the end of your comfort zone.

[Silva Menezes🇲🇿🌍 @ArlesioSilva]

@ansh_chokshi Gtm

[Ozedikus Nwanne @Ozedikus]

Always have a backup plan for any plan that requires another human to execute

[Cole Jaczko @colejaczko]

Nah. 27 to 33 is when you enter the portal to the most beautiful version of your life

27 is when you take the leap
28 shows you who you are. Forced to sink or swim, you realize what you’re truly capable of
29 the vision becomes clear. You double down on yourself
30 you begin doing the best work of your life
31 is your meteoric rise
32 living a life better than your wildest dreams
33 is when your partner comes into your life and you begin build the next foundation to the rest of your life

[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant taught a generation how to get rich.

Then, on the very last page, @naval quietly admits something:

"When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place."

And he closes with six words:
"But that is for another day.

[Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne]

Everyone says: hire people better than you, then get out of the way.

One of my biggest mistakes at Algolia was taking that literally.

Yes, hire people better than you. But don’t confuse seniority with earned trust.

Stay close at first. Inspect the work. Pressure-test the judgment. If you’re still micromanaging after 3 months, you hired the wrong person.

And trust your gut.

As a founder, you are the most fine-tuned model in the world on your own company. If something feels off, it probably is, even when the exec says, “Trust me, I’ve done this for 20 years.”

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

2024 - software engineers are dead.

2025 - AI will replace all coders in 6 months.

2026 - just 6 more months bro, agents are almost there.

2027 - why is this AI generated payment flow refunding users twice and still marking the order as failed?

2028 - why did the AI create 17 background workers, 9 cron jobs, 4 queues and still no one knows where the actual state lives?

2029 - hire back engineers who can read logs, understand race conditions, talk to product, and explain why “just add Redis” is not architecture.

2030 - companies finally realise the best engineer was never the person who typed the most code.

It was the person who understood the system.

Because coding is only one visible part of the job.

The real work is knowing what should not be built.

The real work is understanding why a feature sounds simple in a meeting but becomes painful when it hits payments, compliance, latency, retries, customer support, old data and weird edge cases.

The real work is asking:

- What happens if this service goes down?
- What happens if the queue is delayed?
- What happens if the user clicks twice?
- What happens if this API returns success but database write fails?
- What happens when traffic becomes 10x?

AI can generate code fast.

But fast code without judgement is just faster chaos.

The future will not belong to engineers who only know syntax.

It will belong to engineers who understand systems, users, tradeoffs, debugging, reliability and ownership.

So yes, use AI.

Use it heavily.

But do not stop learning fundamentals.

Because when production burns at 2 AM, nobody cares how fast the code was generated.

They care who can understand the mess and fix it.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Founders finding out building a startup is 90% sales and marketing:

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

Being a founder is so freaking hard man.. chewing glass every day. If you fail, no one cares. If you succeed, you are given way more problems. Sometimes I really wonder how many founders wake up in the morning and ask themselves "is it really worth it".

Starting a company is so glorified - but building, scaling and maintaining one is a different story. This is why it's so important to do this for the right reasons - solve problems you are deeply passionate about and one you'll do even if the world is against you. At least there will be light at the end of the tunnel that's constantly drawing you in on those days when you are questioning your motivation.

I have never had the courage to personally start a company for this reason. Just wanted to say to the ones going through this - I see you, I salute you and I admire you 🫡

[Mubbu @wizofecom]

Had a wealthy friend tell me that the ability to decrease time to any outcome is the one skill behind every successful person he knows.

A few I apply constantly:

- Decreasing the time it takes you to get out of a bad state will make you emotionally resilient

- Decreasing the time it takes you to go from idea to executive will make you wealthy

- Decreasing the time it takes you to turn a failure into a lesson will thicken your skin faster than anything else

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

The test I always apply: what’s the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to try this? Not the best way.

Not the right way. The fastest way to find out if the idea has legs.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Money advice nobody told you: The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value. No one hands out money. No one is going to pay you just because they like you or think you're cool. That's not the way the world works. Money earned is a direct byproduct of value created. Create value, receive value. If money is the goal, value has to be the focus. This isn't just some vague idea: The only way to get rich is to create an enormous amount of value for others, and capture a small portion of that along the way. It's not talking about the thing, it's not brainstorming about the thing, it's not asking about the thing, it's not thinking about the thing. The only way to create value is by doing the thing. And if you don't know where to start, look around you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, shareholders, employees. Every single one of them has a problem. What problems can you solve for the people around you? Figure them out, solve them, scale that solution. That's how you make money.

[Silva Menezes🇲🇿🌍 @ArlesioSilva]

@Taryl_Ogle Fund me

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

Yes, but only in an acceptable way. Let me show you.

When you feel the urge to cry, step away from the public eye. Retreat into your private space. Play music, loud enough that the walls, the lightbulb, the furniture, and all the familiar objects that have come to know you as strong, do not have to bear witness to your humiliation. Then bury your face in your pillow and weep.

When you are done, when you have exhausted yourself, go into the bathroom, wash your face, compose yourself. Apply makeup if you wish. Turn the pillow over so the room does not see what it has just held. Then step outside as though nothing happened.

That is how to cry like a man.

[hunter @3gpmh]

delusional optimism is the only way out

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

@FabrizioRomano @OSAMO1 We have our champion already, they can have theirs.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have been driving for 6 hours between two countries, and I thought I would get some work done after the trip, but my brain is fried.

Long-distance driving is one of those things that is mentally taxing, but you don't realize it while doing it.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

The last Bitcoin crash was because of centralized exchanges doing fractional trading of an asset they didn’t own.

The current crash is investment companies trading derivatives related to an asset they don’t own.

The problem is with the perception around Bitcoin, not Bitcoin itself.

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

your SPOUSE is the one who’ll sit beside you when your PARENTS DIE. who’ll hold your hand through CHILDBIRTH. who might have to BATHE YOU if you’re ever too sick to stand. this isn’t just about BUTTERFLIES or DATE NIGHTS. it’s about choosing someone who SHOWS UP... in GRIEF, in MESS, in UNCERTAINTY. so no, LOVE ALONE isn’t enough. COMMITMENT, MATURITY, and the ability to ENDURE life’s ugly parts... that’s what sustains a MARRIAGE. because when life gets PAINFULLY REAL, ROMANCE won’t carry you... CHARACTER will. and the truth is, FOREVER is only possible with someone who knows how to STAY when it’s HARD TO LOVE

[Zene🧃💚 @Toluzene]

You clearly have no idea how male friendships work

- They'll never try to appeal to your emotions, they would be very blunt and unapologetic.

- They act like you don't matter until sh!t hits the fan and they turn up for you in the most unimaginable way possible.

- They call you out if you do dumb sh!t and would hold a grudge till the next. football game or night out with the boys.

-They push you to be better, they'll help ensure your living standards increases with both tips, help and updates.

Having homeboys is one of the realest perks that comes with being a male, you have people who are genuinely concerned with your growth and well-being and not people who call their obese friends "queen".

For female friendships to work, there's an unprecedented level of hypocrisy required.