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Strategic Leadership Is Lacking, Not Trust

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Vibe-Code vs. Buy for B2B SaaS in 2026

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The End of Cargo Culting Startup Accelerators

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garrickvanburen
·قبل 17 يومًا·discuss
“In the end, if I’m successful, I’ll have this one bread recipe adapted/developed, and if written out comprehensively for someone else (even future me), it will likely be >4 pages.”

https://garrickvanburen.com/only-finding-the-non-obvious-mat...
garrickvanburen
·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
My default position is: if an LLM is good at it, we probably don’t actually need it.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 25 يومًا·discuss
There seems to be an overall, “I’m just now aware of this phenomenon, technology must be to blame” when the phenomenon has stayed constant and the tech has shifted under it.

#moraloutrage
garrickvanburen
·قبل 25 يومًا·discuss
Whether grocery shopping or an endurance running event (5K+) those with any kind of headphones in are simply less aware of the people trying to get around them.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
This was my guess on the impetus for the name change as well.
garrickvanburen
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
My preference is to pre-commit by blocking off time on my calendar in 30, 60, or 90min increments depending on the task. If in the middle of it, I get distracted, I look at the calendar to remind myself.
garrickvanburen
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
fantastic book.
garrickvanburen
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The metaphor that changed my perspective came from the book, "The Power of Full Engagement", paraphrasing "you're behaving as if you're a world-class endurance athlete without an off season - stop it."
garrickvanburen
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I worked a corporate job for 6yrs off an iPad Pro.
garrickvanburen
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I agree, outside of the AI bubble, there's a lot of wait-and-see happening in the B2B world right now, I'd say we're currently 6-8 months into that 14 months.
garrickvanburen
·قبل شهرين·discuss
My worst job interview ever - in-house creative team at telecom company in downtown Chicago.

I walk into a darkened cubicle farm, down to the only lit corner office for a 'lunch interview'.

Interviewer is sitting at their desk eating a hot pocket on a paper plate.

Didn't even offer me any.

First interview I walked out of.

Not the last.
garrickvanburen
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I agree. We don't need a nondeterministic 10quadrillion vector model. We need an deterministic expert on our narrow business. Something small, that can be run on the 2026 version of the spare PC under the CTOs desk.
garrickvanburen
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I think Dan Olson and Folding Ideas is doing a fantastic job of bringing thoughtful criticism to all kinds of modern media, most recently Mr. Beast Games.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNtlmLB73-7gtlBz00XOQQ
garrickvanburen
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Agreed. Also, as every media organization is free to make editorial decisions on both what they cover and how they cover it, left/right is often far too simplistic and vague to actually reverse engineer a media orgs bias.
garrickvanburen
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I agree.

Between: more efficient models - tuned for the task at hand, the ability to run those models in-house, or even at the edges, plus Google and Microsoft are well positioned to stay ambivalent as they’ve got lots of products to sell and whether or not LLMs are part of the portfolio mix is completely dependent on enterprise customer demand.

Anthropic/OpenAI have a number of aggressive downward pressures on their pricing.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
it's a great reminder that Uber wasn't a 2-sided marketplace to begin with, just an on-demand black car service, and Travis drove early on. The marketplace model came later, copying Lyft, more as a low-cost expansion strategy than a business model.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
This. Stated another way, you need to start by either: fulfilling existing demand yourself....or being the demand yourself.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
My default position: If an LLM can create it, we probably don't actually need it.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I agree, and a willingness to experience failure as soon as possible has always been a competitive advantage.

If anything LLM chatbots & synthetic users will make the majority of founders evermore comfortable not testing reality.
garrickvanburen
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
https://dejabru.org - The Homebrew Competition Remembering Historic and Long-Forgotten Beer Styles