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Product and business operations | Building the trust layer for businesses that move money across borders.

[josh @joshosunbor]

Taking unreasonable bets again…😁

[Tyler_Tian @Tyler2787026205]

Mostly the second. Ask a model to review and it'll always find something, since coming back empty feels like failing the task. Give it a bar up front instead: only flag stuff that would break in prod or lose data, and say it's fine to report nothing. Otherwise every pass turns into fresh nitpicks.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[josh @joshosunbor]

@abo0zar Both, but mainly how decisions are made. same applicant, three lenders (credit unions, banks, fintechs), three different answers, each one explained. Claude will do the heavy lifting on the build.

[josh @joshosunbor]

weekend plans: using claude code to build a banking tool that thinks like a credit union.

[josh @joshosunbor]

If you can put skill into something to improve your odds of getting lucky, it's not luck. It's just a skill.

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🚨🇸🇳 Cheikhou Kouyate: "I suffered from a heart problem since birth. I played with it. In England, it was monitored every six months. I had medical check-ups at West Ham, Crystal Palace, and Nottingham Forest. Every time I had the tests, the problem reappeared."

"The doctors always pointed out the problem to me, but I took responsibility myself. I signed the insurance papers stating that anything that might happen to me would be my responsibility."

“Anderlecht called me in the summer to play there and also to start training as a coach. But after the medical examination, the doctor asked me to stop playing football."

"The problem is at high altitude. If I play in the heat, it hurts terribly, during and after matches. It feels like a side stitch, for about five minutes, and then it goes away. When it happens, after the match, I get painful cramps. After 24 hours, it stops."

“I never said anything. I didn’t want to be forced to stop early. I never told my family, not even the national team doctors. They didn’t know about my problem." (Waif TV via Sun Sport)

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released.

On average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5.

[josh @joshosunbor]

@slimeech From your mouth to God’s ears🙏🏾

[josh @joshosunbor]

"If you lose a World Cup final or a Champions League final and then go on holiday, you might think there’s a next time. But there isn’t always a next time. This is it."

[Sam Terris @samterris]

Freckle is the first kids phone built for real-world adventure.

Shipping in December. Pre-order today: https://t.co/zsJgDBUpda

[josh @joshosunbor]

“It's not yours if you can't keep it”

[josh @joshosunbor]

@2mizeen 😁😁😁

[josh @joshosunbor]

@claudeai seems like a very solid model

[DHH @dhh]

It's incredible how far you can go if you just don't stop.

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[josh @joshosunbor]

@PetrePan_ 😂😂😂😂

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[Oluyomi Ojo @OluyomiOjo]

If you are an ambitious Nigerian professional (Founder or talent) who needs to attend conferences, close deals, raise funding, or be in rooms that matter in the West and don't have a second passport (Blue or Red), this thread is for you. If you are one of those people who say, "Must everyone travel?" Please skip; this thread is not for you.

As you rise in your career, you start to realize that Zoom/Gmeet calls have their limits. The world's 1% understand this. That's why airport lounges and business travel still exist. Corporate tourism is a $ 1 T market. (20% of the entire space).