Steve Cornwell

Writing Rhythms of Scale | Building ExactTempo

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Yes! 🙌

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

I am increasingly finding the need to buy certain books within Claude / ChatGPT so it can use the book for context when I ask it to. Making this frictionless in the UI would be amazing.

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@mkobach Refreshing

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I’m spending time thinking about #4. What this wave of bootstrappers will need to be successful - distribution, compliance, etc. Reminds me of when Shopify hit the market and created millions of indy merchants who all needed help building their small businesses. Feels very similar.

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Culture is math, not magic.

No Negatrons × Human Connection

→ Hire well. Fire fast.
→ Make space for real connection.
→ Let it compound over time.

Just published a new Rhythms of Scale with a world-class operator who’s designed this formula. And it works.

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Shipping culture like code?

A CEO I spoke with last week actually does it:

- Codified culture playbook
- “Feature requests” from employees
- Prioritized backlog
- Launches with changelogs

Not posters. Not platitudes.

Culture as a product.

Designed. Measurable. Improving.

More leaders should think this way.

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@jasonlk Completely agree. We’re about to experience the hypertail of SaaS with indie builders. Pretty awesome

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If you're scaling with intention, this one's for you.

Read + subscribe here:

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Most leaders obsess over their product roadmap.

But what if the company had one too?

Culture. Communication. Cadence.

Built and improved with intention.

That’s what I unpack in the first edition of Rhythms of Scale 👇

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Chad’s lens:

“If you're unsure what to do, think about how we’d solve this if it were a bug in our product—because our company is our most important product.”

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If you’re building—or rebuilding—a company, I hope it gives you new useful tools.

And if you’ve built a rhythm worth sharing, I’d love to hear it.

Subscribe here: https://t.co/PcvzZKAA7R

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There’s one thing I couldn’t stop thinking about after I sold my last startup:

Did I ever figure out how to actually run the company?

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The first post is live.

And tomorrow, I’m sharing a conversation with Chad Pytel (CEO of Thoughtbot) on how they’ve scaled for 22 years by treating their company like a product.