the most underrated hire right now is a great product person.
when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that.
i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it.
& the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start.
the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled.
before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.
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It’s a small shift, but a meaningful one.
You start with a simple question, and before you know it, you’re 3 layers deep into something you hadn’t planned to explore.
That’s what makes LLMs feel different — they don’t just answer you, they invite you to keep going.
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LLMs don’t just answer questions — they expand your curiosity.
They turn passive information retrieval into an active chain of thought.
Let me explain.
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That one nudge pulls you deeper.
You’re not just getting an answer — you’re being guided through the natural next steps of your curiosity.
It’s like having a research assistant who knows the questions you should be asking.
a few months ago robinhood sent me a gold credit card with extremely high-quality details.
i thought it was a ridiculous marketing stunt at the time but now it’s an example i give when talking about great design.
The best founders and operators are already leaving the UK for the US.
Scrapping Entrepreneur's Relief without a credible alternative will push even more to relocate.
If we want to grow the economy, we must replace our declining industries (oil, gas, mining, tobacco, banking) with high-growth tech companies, as the US has done.
The UK has the right ingredients but needs reform to scale:
- Public markets that reward long-term growth over short-term profitability
- Late-stage capital to sustain investment and growth
- Pro-growth regulators who support innovation
Avoid the political mistake of scrapping Entrepreneur's Relief without offering an alternative.
You could achieve almost no tax impact by making the criteria for eligibility more ambitious.
@RachelReevesMP@UKLabour@peterkyle@Keir_Starmer
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Most people are useless.
“A small percentage of workers in an organisation or field are responsible for the bulk of the output.
The top 10% of the most prolific elite can be credited with 50% of all contributions, whereas the bottom 50% of least productive workers contribute only 15%.
The most productive contributor is, on average, about 100 times more prolific than the least.” — @robkhenderson
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