Frank Dale

Founder of New Co.
Past: Founder of Costello (acquired), Chief Product Officer @SalesLoft.

Building a system to end work about work.

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

NEW VIDEO: For decades, America treated soccer like a joke.

Then something changed.

For Americans under 35, soccer is as popular as the NBA, and more popular than MLB.

So how did a country that spent decades mocking soccer suddenly embrace it?

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

How Soccer Finally Conquered America
https://t.co/ZkESb7jbaw

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@YairSpolter @m2jr We’re not on the Microsoft stack so we didn’t look at it. That product may be perfectly fine. We chose Obsidian because the default file type is Markdown and supports local storage with sharing via cloud sync.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

High-agency is contagious. You spend time around someone who just does things and suddenly your own list of "impossible" tasks starts looking suspiciously possible.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@charlcye @m2jr Right now, the context store for them is a combination of the Obsidian Vault (folder path example in image), CRM, and meeting recordings.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@m2jr Yes, we started with Github and then moved the non-engineering skills to a shared Obisidian vault. Github is doable for non-product roles, but Obsidian was more accessible.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@suekhim This looks great. My son just finished fourth grade. I would love to help him work on fractions and algebraic thinking.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

The entire piece is worth a read and tracks with our team's experience running AI native and building an AI native product. In particular, I love this point on differentiation:

"Sameness creates a demand for differentiation. When work is abundant and looks alike everywhere, the work that doesn’t fit the pattern becomes the rare, valuable, and high-status thing."

https://t.co/GRiPTmzh6g

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

This is a great definition of AI slop by @danshipper :

"Slop is not any one particular mistake. It is not the use of em dashes, or a certain sentence rhythm, or purple accents on a landing page. Slop is visible sameness, repeated ad nauseam.

It is what gets produced by default when humans in many different circumstances use the same tool, trained on the same corpus, without thinking too hard. It is what happens when everyone has access to an expert who has the same default tendencies.

it’s easy to end up in a world where your output has gone up—but the quality, coherence, and differentiation of what you’re producing has dropped."

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@SueFinkam This is correct and thank you for pushing for effective government.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Insane story from NYC:

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@aaron_renn This is an interesting plan. How much of this is a reaction to weak leadership versus natural human limits on management capacity?

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@aaron_renn You end up in those positions when your philosophy has no limiting principles.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@aaron_renn He's done a great job with the overall message. As someone that cares about competent government, I want him to win.

As an Indiana native that lived in LA for awhile and still has family there, I think it's going to be tight.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

Claude Code has unprompted been occasionally providing time to complete estimates over the last couple of weeks. These estimates are clearly based on pre-AI workflows and as a result, much longer than the actual completion time.

Anyone else seeing this?

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

@WatcherontheWeb Can we talk about the tagline on poster?

"You have to be there to see it."

I would love to have heard that conversation that led to that one.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

No one cares, and that’s amazing.

“Nobody is coming to save you also implies that nobody is coming to stop you.”

[Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe]

Everyone who learned things the hard way in the past is still learning new things the hard way today.

Learning the hard way isn’t a form of learning. It’s a form of personality.

[Frank Dale @frankcdale]

Never again is now. We owe it to ourselves and the generations before us like my grandfathers that fought Nazis in WW2 to prevent the Nazis of today from winning.

Respect to you Bill Maher.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing: