@paulg Im building one in manufacturing onboarding MX suppliers first with tools and capital they need to fulfill the increasing demand we see in the cross border trade market between the US and MX.
leaking every n8n agent i’ve shared on X
20+ production‑ready flows + a 1,500‑template repo - free to clone
inside the drop:
- my most popular n8n builds (meta co-pilot agent, X viral scraper agent, tik tok trend minder, b-roll producer and more)
- 1,500‑flow n8n template index (tagged by growth, ops, creative) so you never start from scratch
- full vibe‑coding tutorial where I go from basic n8n backend to Bolt front‑end UI in 23 min
basically everything you need to crush AI automation + vibe coding in one folder.
reply "LEAK" + retweet and i'll send it over (must be following so i can dm)
Sunday rant.
For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to free you up to think harder about the data structures to use, not leave things comically inefficient. This context is always skipped when it’s uttered.
Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature.
If you are in engineering, here is a fantastic anecdote. I refer to this account often. It’s a bit subtile, but the implications are massive-
It’s an account of how SQLite became 50% faster, not by doing one specific thing but hundreds of small ones.
SQLite is everywhere today because of this work.
https://t.co/krLFFps2up
We need the engineers in all companies fight for this more. Product leads are not the right owners of the end performance of the software. This needs to be encoded in the professional pride of the software engineering discipline. Leaders in companies need to encourage it and hold engineering accountable. It’s simply not ok to fritter away the performance of the products for random reasons.
Every user of your products cares exactly as much about latency as engineers do when typing in their terminal. They just don’t have the words to describe what they don’t like about the experience and neither should they.
We're hiring a Rails programmer to join the product team. Come help us build @basecamp, @heyhey, and ONCE! Remote position (Americas/Europe/Africa), $170,000 salary regardless of where you live. https://t.co/wgrHVFQeXQ
If it seems hard in SaaS, just remember if you can get to $20m-$25m ARR, growing at even a modest clip, and your burn is low ... someone will buy you
Just don't raise at a crazy valuation, that's all
People with “founder mentality” can’t rest once a problem or opportunity is identified.
They take on personal responsibility without complaint, learn & recruit skills as needed, and deliver results despite politics.
There is unlimited global demand for founder mentality.
@naval
@snowmaker@paulg As a founder you have to be really good at systems thinking as to me all businesses are complex systems and building them requires a good understanding of components, inputs and outputs
This is so important when you start a tech company don’t go for the new tech stack / architecture / framework build it simple make money, learn, iterate and build from there
The ideal school would teach health, wealth, & happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, & available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas - just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow.
@naval
To build a startup you need a really small scrappy and dedicated team that is willing to work in complete chaos.
To scale a startup you need a team that can perform with detailed processes, systems, goals, rewards, alignment, strategy.
Also willing to work in chaos.
@SergioRocks This is what I have seen specially in the past 3 years, I have been building remote teams based in Central America mainly Guatemala for 20 years and there was an explosion of US companies hiring recently and also salaries went up 3-5x
Nvidia almost died 3 times in its 30 year history.
CEO Jensen Huang shared these near-death stories at a commencement speech last night.
Here's what he said:
@SpaceX@elonmusk NEED YOUR HELP! At @SomosWayfree, we are facing the challenge of expanding our coverage off grid in rural GUATEMALA to connect more than 96% of public SCHOOLS that currently have NO INTERNET and 70% of LOW-INCOME POPULATION that lack of continuous INTERNET ACCESS. We have made this possible for FREE with Wayfree’s unique business model. With access to @Starlink, we could increase our impact 100X across the region.