was thinking about starting a community for ops people going claude code because you 100% can and should do it

try doing your own version of this for a non-work related company & give it this feedback in Claude

it will improve

the shape of how things actually work is what’s left when constant churn (and now budget blocking) is a fact of life

I have been a part of a dozen “next Silicon Valley” projects across the US, with friends who have done it internationally.

I’d suggest studying how it happened in Paris/France and also how Portgual lost it.

The only thing that works is founders helping founders. Everyone else responds to the signal they generate.

If you try to send that signal with investors/vendors, you will attract a lot of people who will not build much value.

One formula I’ve see work is to faciliate college student talent interest in startups meeting with founder/CEOs who built very successful companies. It gets a fly wheel going.

When I was on the ground floor of the NYC startup scene, it took ten years to build up to a viable startup scene.

Your effort will likely take longer.

So the best help I can give you is this - don’t waste your life.

If you are willing to contribute a generational effort towards this goal, find every founder from N Mexico and meet them. Ask for their advice on your vision. Do what they recommend.

If not, save yourself the dissapointment. There are literally 1,000s of attempts that have failed. Venture studios do not work. Angel investments from people who are not in the industry of your startups do not work.

It takes a lifetime to build a network in an industry. That is what early stage founders need access to, from people who understand how to succeed in them.

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A tariff as a negotiating tactic wouldn’t be worth much if it was known to be temporary.

Significantly more informed and reasoned.

Experience and context matters. Especially this one.

Founders are in private group chats now

Man I miss it being real here instead of Reddit Jr

Grateful for those of you who still hang out

Defaults are powerful over time.

There’s a simple counter-factual for people with this level of ability:

“Making money” can be easily pursued at BlackRock or any number of PE firms.

Creating historic technology, of unknown difficulty and scale of impact, is not something pure capitalism can or is designed to deliver. What would investors or customers buy at the start of OpenAI?

While OpenAI may end up a corporation like any other, it would not have achieved what it had as one.

CEOs, especially of large companies, are glorified management

There have been great films made in every era, but the trend towards tighter writing, more legible and compelling action, and emotionally impactful story telling is strongly trending upwards overall.

And nothing will ever top the merchandising mania of the 80s!

The concept that the customer is the expert on requirements and it is the job of the tech vendor to implement them as failed, wholesale, and the failure is growing non-linearly in a relatively short period of time.

It’s time to abandon the fiction that SWEs are order takers.

We need engineers to redesign operations, not merely implement what aging employees know how to do.

One of the things I’ve learned over the years is almost every company becomes the symbol of it’s anti-mission

Root cause almost always seems to be trying to design PM performance around metrics

Metrics are a poor framework for values