Ian Johnson

Lead Product at Aida
| Previously Co-founder of Lasso AI (Acquired)
| More Outsidy than Outdoorsy
| 🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

I recently shared this with a friend asking where they should start learning about product management.

Books
- 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumlet
- Empowered by @cagan

Who to read/follow
- @lennysan
- @gibsonbiddle
- @cagan

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Thanks, Gemini 👍

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Anyone else get their Odyssey tickets today?

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘THE ODYSSEY’ allows users to play the trailer in each theatrical format that the film is available in.

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

You merely adopted unemployment. I was born in it, molded by it.
- philosophy grad since 2010

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@Jared_Seidel_ Yes! Especially when they depend on Claude code to track and organize everything

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@cyrusnewday What's your current selection process for what gets worked on?

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@varadh @vedantnair__ @Jared_Seidel_ Looks like we have ourselves a crew! Ill be there in the morning.

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@vedantnair__ @Jared_Seidel_ 💯

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@Jared_Seidel_ @vedantnair__ Let's go 💪 Also @vedantnair__, I've seen you on the 6am shift, usually with the YC swag right?

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@Jared_Seidel_ Decent, atmosphere is mid though

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Is Claude quality in the toilet for anyone else these last few days?

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

This happened around the corner from me.
Coming from Ireland where road deaths are 4x lower, this is beyond tragic.
Streets that get safety upgrades see crashes drop 69%. Politicians act when they hear from you.
Today I built this. You can do something https://t.co/FMzJtcpj0K

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

Bystanders tried to lift an SUV after its driver pinned a mother and child in Mission Bay last Friday, say witnesses.

📝: Ezra Wallach https://t.co/9IvGaaOUIA

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

So AI mode in @Google appears to be regressing to "Let me Google that for you"

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@NoahEpstein_ @damianplayer This chart isn't showing you opportunity. It's showing you the same power law that governs everything.

- 1.6% of people hold 48% of wealth
- 0.6% of humans write code
- 500 companies = 2/3 of US GDP
- 9% of businesses ever hit $1M

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

@juliarturc I'm even more excited for fiction podcasts. Think of how immersive you can make it.

Passion project I plan to revisit is making an immersive fiction podcast. Rough concept is that you get dropped into a group chat and watch the story unfold as a viewer over a number of weeks.

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Software development in 2026

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

The Agentic Web and Original Sin was my favourite post from this list.

If advertising was the web’s biggest mistake, is embedding native payments how we avoid repeating it in the agentic web?

[Stratechery @stratechery]

The 2025 Stratechery Year in Review

The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2025.

https://t.co/NPXzzSHZah

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Congrats on the launch @rincidium

[Ray @rincidium]

World's first on-brand AI.

Introducing Bloom.

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Has anyone had regular success using the Comet browser yet? Feels like Vaporwear so far

[Arfur Rock @ArfurRock]

Harmonic has added 6 new, high-signal stealth launches since August.

Including AIDA, founded by ex-Co-founder/Head of AI at Glean.

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