Every company I've ever worked at still runs Dave's spreadsheet.
Different companies. Different industries. Same spreadsheet. Same Dave.
I'm starting to think it was the same bloke. One Dave. Spent a week at every business in England sometime around 2015, built a spreadsheet, wrote "DO NOT DELETE" in a cell, said "update it every Monday," and left.
And we've all just... been doing that. Ever since. For a decade. Like a chain letter nobody had the nerve to break.
Nobody's met Dave. Dave left in 2018. But Dave's work endures, because every Monday someone opens the file and updates it, and could not tell you why if you held them at gunpoint.
It has tabs you've never clicked. A formula that needs its own postcode. A macro that fires on open, does something unholy, and is never discussed. And that column. "DO NOT DELETE." No further information. Just a threat.
What happens if you delete it? Nobody knows. What breaks if you stop updating it? Nobody knows. Is anyone willing to find out? Absolutely not. So the ritual continues.
And here's the bit nobody says out loud:
We're not keeping it because it's good. We're keeping it because we're scared. Not of the spreadsheet, of the fact that one transient genius understood the whole business for a week in 2015 and then vanished, and now a .xlsx is the only one who remembers how anything works.
Map what goes in and what comes out and it's usually doing about 10% of what you feared. The rest is vibes and fear.
Dave's not coming back. He got a job in Leeds.
You can probably turn it off.
What's your company's Dave's spreadsheet? And be honest, do you think it was the same Dave?
Been working our socks off here for a client trying to get https://t.co/tvVy3KjEQn recognised on LLM's. Got our first link from chstgpt today. Feeling is good. Thanks to https://t.co/5fc5wGm9nU for getting our sites perfectly aligned for LLM rankings
It doesn't mean you'd finish higher with him out of thr team? Do you go to the games? I'm just curious to figure out how others see it.
Without Gueye you concede twice as many goals, he breaks up so much play, he finds all the right passes, he's one of the best there is in that position.
It doesn't mean you'd finish higher with him out of thr team? Do you go to the games? I'm just curious to figure out how others see it.
Without Gueye you concede twice as many goals, he breaks up so much play, he finds all the right passes, he's one of the best there is in that position.
I aspire to be the man in the gym I saw yesterday.
He wasn't bench pressing 500kg, doing one finger handstands or sprinting at 21kmh on the treadmill.
No this was a different level of confidence.
He was blow drying his bollocks in full gym changing room.
£1,000 sent to Thailand via Wise today gets you 43,500 baht.
A year ago it was 42,800 baht.
The Bank of Thailand is sitting on a 1% policy rate because the war is closer to Bangkok than most people realise.
Why the baht is weaker, and what to watch:
https://t.co/8BGBd1iDLS
My agent OS proposes work throughout the day that I can approve to run. It got much smarter after I gave it one thing: a story.
At first the proposals were ok, some useful, but often too generic. Never surprising or ahead of me.
The problem was that each session saw project snapshots but had no narrative. No sense of my goals, priorities, schedule, what I just finished, what’s nearing the finish line, what was starting to drift, etc.
So I built a story synthesizer.
Every hour it pulls from 10+ sources: identity, goals, deadlines, sessions, projects & tasks, commits, notes, research, & more. Pipes it to Claude, which turns that into a living narrative of my current reality.
Every proposal run now reads that first and then project-specific data.
Now it sees something close to shipping and proposes the missing work before I ask: smoke tests, QA checks, signing verification, release prep, clean approval gates.
It sees another project with no real plan and goes off to do the planning legwork itself: researching gaps, mapping dependencies, laying out a realistic day-by-day build path.
It’s surfacing things I wasn’t tracking yet, gaps I didn’t notice, work that matters before I asked for it.
Part assistant, part coach, part consultant. It knows my story and pushes me towards finish lines now.
Announcing a new Claude Code feature: Remote Control. It's rolling out now to Max users in research preview. Try it with /remote-control
Start local sessions from the terminal, then continue them from your phone. Take a walk, see the sun, walk your dog without losing your flow.
@buddyhadry@steipete You're both so inspirational. @buddyhadry your analysis skills are second to none, I wish I had your skills. And @steipete what you've built is better than any multi billionaire dollar company could manage with a team of devs. I hope one day I can as 10th as skillfully as you two