Everyone says: hire people better than you, then get out of the way.
One of my biggest mistakes at Algolia was taking that literally.
Yes, hire people better than you. But don’t confuse seniority with earned trust.
Stay close at first. Inspect the work. Pressure-test the judgment. If you’re still micromanaging after 3 months, you hired the wrong person.
And trust your gut.
As a founder, you are the most fine-tuned model in the world on your own company. If something feels off, it probably is, even when the exec says, “Trust me, I’ve done this for 20 years.”
Congress wants to extend wash-sale rules to crypto. Doing so would make everyday crypto use, DeFi, and multi-wallet tracking nearly unworkable.
Summary of the issue in Tax Notes:
This is actually bullish for the stock market because it gives us another opportunity for the S&P 500 to hit fresh all time highs on hopes of a peace deal
@TheBlockCo I read that too fast in complete absolute disbelief. I was like "There is NO WAY!". Glad I clicked to realize it had indeed nothing to do with you @sternhenri 😅
@RoKhanna It baffles me how Democrats are incapable of doing their own introspection. If you think this is why Democrats are unpopular and use it as the basis for your upcoming campaigns, you will lose. Again.
It's time to wake up, guys!
Seriously!
DeFi spent a decade building rails to move assets.
The next leg of onchain finance is about the assets themselves: making the legal record of ownership digitally native.
At @fairmint, this is the layer we’ve been building, bringing equity onchain.
I’ll be speaking at @ETHConf in NYC this June.
DeFi built the rails. Now it needs the assets.
https://t.co/ykWrTw1MIF
Looks awesome... but the onboarding is terrible!
It started great by showing me, what Koji was about and what was great about it. Great job on this!
At the end of the initial onboarding process, I am being asked about my child. First issue: I have 2 children and I wanted both of them to use Koji. "Fine, I'll put my oldest for now."
Then I am being asked for my email (not a google login, or a signup... just my email). Ok, why not. I enter my email. And that's when you started losing me completely:
I check my email, click on the link to verify my email. ok.
I land on a page that asks me to login.... I'm like "ok, they didn't ask me for a password before so.... I guess now is the real signup?" -> I login using google login -> I land on a page to "Start learning" (cf screenshot). "Wait, no! I don't want to learn... it's my kid who should see this. Damn it, that means I should have gotten my kid to login instead of me... argh".
So then I'm like "ok how do I fix this, there must be an admin panel somewhere...". But I never really signed up as a parent... so I guess, my only option is to go through a reset password procedure using the intial email I had put in the initial onboarding flow (where I had clearly said I was a parent).
I do the pwd reset flow. "Great! Now I should be able to login to my parent admin panel". I login -> I arrive on a screen where I can again start learning (cf screenshot with black background). Damn... so that's also for my kid? But wait... there is a banner to "Subscribe to Premium", so that's for me, the parent, not for my kid 🤔
I go to Settings, hoping to find something about my kid, a link or something -> nothing. It really seems that I am now in a kid's account 🤷
Does it mean that there is no "parent account"? But I identified myself as a parent initially... what's going on here? 🤯
This is where I abandoned and thought I'd reach out on X because I am in love with your mission and I cannot stay silent on such a confusing onboarding process 😅
PS: I came back to the original email I received to see if I had missed something (because let's be honest, I didn't read it, I had just clicked the link to verify the email). It says "You're almost done setting up a Brilliant account for your child. Click the link below to verify your email and complete their account." -> Clearly I (the parent) is expected to click that link, not my kid. But somehow... I never was able to get to the part "... and complete their account".
So at the end of the day, I now have a personal account to learn Maths and Computer programming... but I have no idea how to onboard my kids 🤷😢
Please copy/paste this message to your favorite AI and ask it to fix that flow🙏
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I repeat: I want you to succeed. That's important!
Here’s the email to employees:
Team,
Hope everyone’s doing well and enjoying the productivity enhancements from our AI tooling initiative.
Unfortunately, Finance has asked me to clarify a small issue.
It appears someone, and by “someone” I mean apparently all of you simultaneously, managed to spend $500,000,000 on @claudeai usage in a single month.
For context:
•NASA landed on the moon for less.
•We are now the proud owner of approximately 14% of Anthropic.
•Claude personally sent us a thank-you fruit basket.
•Our CFO has entered a fugue state and only communicates through Slack emojis.
•The electricity usage from your prompts briefly dimmed parts of Northern Virginia.
While we appreciate innovation, there are concerns that:
•“Can you make this email sound slightly warmer?” did not require 11,400 generations.
•Asking Claude to “rewrite this in the style of Succession, Hemingway, and Tony Soprano combined” may have been excessive.
•One employee appears to have used Claude to generate “a quick list of lunch options” that somehow consumed the GDP of a small island nation.
Going forward, please observe the following guidelines:
1Do not upload the entire internet into Claude “for context.”
2If your prompt begins with “simulate every possible outcome,” reconsider.
3Claude should not be used to:
◦settle fantasy football disputes,
◦write your wedding vows 97 times,
◦generate revenge edits of your ex’s LinkedIn bio,
◦or ask “what if Rome had WiFi?”
Most importantly:
If you see the message:
“This request may require additional datacenter construction”
…please stop immediately and contact IT.
Thank you all for your cooperation during this challenging yet technologically groundbreaking time.
Warm regards, Management
P.S. Whoever prompted:
“Generate every possible PR angle for every company founded since 1983”
…we just want to talk.