Ralph Sadowski

- dad first. Nerd second.
- love tech & creative destruction
- building something new 🚀
- publishing mental models weekly.

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Got a little tired of AI guides, so I decided to write about it.

This isn't a 'how-to'. It's the identity story underneath the economics story.

Give it a read for some thoughts on:
- What version of you expires in 3 years and what version holds for the next 3
- Why who we are can't be tethered to what we know how to do. It has to be tethered to how we learn.
- That's a harder way to build a sense of self. It's also a more honest & durable one.

If you enjoyed it - plz help with a like and a retweet. I'd love for this to get a bit more air time than some generic 'how-to' guides.

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@TateHackert Doctors esp

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@lucyhargreaves4 Canadian politics in a nutshell. Likeness > impact.

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@vladtenev Excited forore competition

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BREAKING: @DarioAmodei and the Pope agree to repurpose Notre Dame. Officially making it the first Canadian office for @AnthropicAI 🇨🇦

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Pope Leo working XIV working with Anthropic on AI is the biggest tech and Vatican crossover since Steve Jobs studied Catholic Chuch to make Apple’s org chart:

▫️“We've observed that the oldest and largest organization in the world has only four layers of management. 

That's the Catholic Church. And, uh, five if you count the highest order I suppose.

So, we see no reason why we need over four layers of management. Indeed, we have usually about three. That’s the president. Maybe, we have a division manager and then maybe under that a marketing or engineering manager.

And that's really about it. So, that's what we're trying to do. […]

We hire people to tell us what to do. [They] come back and tell us how much it's going to cost and go do it. We've got an incredible group of entrepreneurs…[these] people are very independent thinkers and what they really want is…the environment where they don't have to convince 30 other people that it's the right thing to do. […]

We really make an attempt to do that and I guess our feeling is that the day that somebody working in Apple decides that they can't make a difference anymore, is the day we've lost.”▫️

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@HarryStebbings is really giving me the ick recently

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"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

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@garrytan You could finish that sentence with "grow faster" which is exactly what you're saying they should do with it 😂

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YYC is so slept on.

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Google docks seems legit

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Google is sitting on a massive clothing and home textiles opportunity

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@ramonable @Questrade @TOtechweek York + Wellington

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👋 from the new @Questrade office @TOtechweek

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@TateHackert When you do, we ride!

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Playing soccer again for the first time in 7+ years has the been the best thing I've done for myself.

If something brought you deep joy as a kid, it'll bring you ever deeper joy as an adult.

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This is like if @Cristiano joined @TeamMessi back at Barcelona 🤯

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

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@winstonweinberg ALL your customers are MAU!? WowOWOw

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@SimiStern Well this one is just rude

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@TateHackert Would love to put on my best cowboy hat for this.

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@hanzpo Were ketchup chips not even considered?

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This one might get under the skin of a few ppl.

You're probably running someone else's algorithm. Even if you think it's your own (especially if you've never asked why)

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