Salem

Angel Investor, writing on the side👇🏾, Obsessed builder 🧩

[Salem @svrlem]

https://t.co/t3yUBvaIKy

[Salem @svrlem]

Excellent perspective. Good read for people building in this age of AI

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Salem @svrlem]

AI gives teams the ability to ship more code. This is not the same as shipping better software or more business value.

Closing that gap requires three shifts:

1. Apply AI across the full development lifecycle; ideation, problem framing, design, architecture, testing, and deployment. Not just code generation.

2. Stop measuring AI success by adoption. Measure it by outcomes.

3. Treat AI slop as a quality failure. Status reports, Jira tickets, PRDs, code, etc. If it reads like a machine wrote it and no one caught it, that is a standards problem. Fix it.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Important read

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Love this from @ElenaVerna

[Salem @svrlem]

Make a conscious decision to deploy your free will to good works

[Salem @svrlem]

You can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding.

You fundamentally still need to protect how you process information and gain insights.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Claude Code's Head of Product: "The PM role is changing a lot. And it's changing really quickly.

The most important thing for building AI-native products is iterating quickly and finding a way to launch features every single week.

Putting less emphasis on making sure that you are aligning multi-quarter roadmaps with your partner teams, and more emphasis on, okay, how can we figure out the fastest way to get something out the door."

[郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo @mingchikuo]

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[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Happy Easter. He is risen.

[jack @jack]

people are sleeping on how excellent goose has become under the hood (interface needs some work but team is pushing).

it's a superpower. https://t.co/Mss7abGodq

[Salem @svrlem]

Most people working in corporate environments lose influence battles not because their argument was wrong, but because they led with logic before the other person felt understood.

The brain doesn’t process new information neutrally. When someone feels challenged, they switch into defense mode.

Your data, your roadmap, your perfectly structured case then hits a wall. In this mode, they are not evaluating your argument anymore, but building a counter-argument.

You unlock this first by understanding that people become persuadable after they feel acknowledged, not before.

This doesn’t mean agreeing with them. It means demonstrating that you actually heard their position before you advanced yours.

One sentence, done right can drop someone’s defensiveness completely.
“I hear what you’re saying [ mention their actual concern restated in your words]. Here’s where I’m coming from…”

That bridge is the difference between a conversation that progresses and one that just goes in circles.

[Salem @svrlem]

I enjoy spending time with product managers. Almost inordinately, because I just enjoy listening and sharing.

If you are a product manager and you just want to talk, send me a DM!

[King Dimeji @datdude_king]

Spent the last 3 months talking to a number of Nigerian landlords.

They all want the same thing, easy management of their properties and their money.

So I'm solving the problem. If you manage properties, DM me. I have 10 free seats for you.

[Salem @svrlem]

In this AI age, distribution, acquisition and usage skills are mission critical.

Anyone can build anything (world class with more obsession). Question is, can you get people to use your thing?!!

[Salem @svrlem]

Oh the power of Claude AI! What a time to be alive.

[Salem @svrlem]

The currency of social media is engagement.

Accuracy is rarely is. I hope it this becomes so in the future, although I’m not optimistic

[Salem @svrlem]

External validation sometimes feels like a crucible. Almost like air. Whereas in truth, none of it matters.

Regardless, play the game just with the above mindset

[Salem @svrlem]

You have to be better than good

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

God is Good.