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Joined December 2016
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A vision without a date cannot be wrong. Which means it can never be right either.
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For a vibe coder there's exactly one goal that matters: THE FIRST paying customer. The rest is stage directions.
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KPI or OKR. Choose your fighter
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SMART goals: Somehow Making Another Ridiculous Task - every manager, every Monday morning. True?
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KPI or OKR. Choose your fighter
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Small companies don't have a goal-setting problem. They have a 'which goal matters most' changes every two weeks problem.
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Bing just taught me an expensive lesson about 2026 SEO: Use AI to improve your content too often → flagged as a content farm → silently deindexed. 3 weeks of zero impressions before I figured it out. The penalty for caring is real.
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The actual mechanism, for anyone curious: My deploy script defaulted to "ping all URLs to IndexNow." Over 3 weeks that meant 836 submissions for ~65 URLs. Bing's acceptance rate dropped to 3-8% from day one. Cumulative trust collapse on 24.04. New URLs Blocked since.
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It's 2026 and "businesses should make money" is still getting called a hot take on this app. What's next? "customers should exist"?
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"AI chatbots misdiagnose in 80% of early cases" is a terrifying headline until you Google the misdiagnosis rate for human doctors in early-stage cases. Then it becomes a different conversation that nobody wants to have.
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European households are sitting on €12.1 trillion in cash. Not invested. Not working. Just sitting in bank accounts earning almost nothing.
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The most valuable skill in 2026 isn't prompting AI, coding with Code, or building agents. It's reading a P&L. AI can write your code, your emails, your marketing copy... it cannot care about your margins for you. The boring pattern: the founders who obsess over their numbers survive. The founders who obsess over their product but outsource the numbers to "the finance person" don't.
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Boring Innovation The most overfunded thing in tech right now is AI chatbots. The most underfunded thing in tech right now is plumbing. Not a metaphor. Actual plumbing. In the US, a water main breaks every 2 minutes. 6 billion gallons of treated water lost daily. The EPA estimates the country needs $625B in water infrastructure investment over the next 20 years. In parts of Southern and Eastern Europe, up to 40-50% of treated water never reaches a tap. Even the European average sits around 20-25% — one in every four liters, gone. The fixes exist. Acoustic AI leak detection. Satellite radar scanning for pipe fractures. Sensor networks. Predictive maintenance. Companies like FIDO Tech, Asterra, and Xylem are doing this work right now. There's an entire WaterTech sector most of tech Twitter has never heard of. The sector gets funded. But it doesn't get the spotlight. No keynotes. No $9B valuations. No breathless TechCrunch profiles. FIDO Tech detecting a pipe leak with AI is objectively more impactful than your fourth AI note-taking app. But only one of those gets a Product Hunt launch. $625 billion in infrastructure needs. Billions of gallons lost daily. A pipe breaking every 2 minutes. And an entire industry quietly fixing it while the timeline argues about which chatbot writes better emails. The pipes are boring.
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If you work in WaterTech or know someone who does - drop a name. This sector deserves more visibility!
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Every billion-dollar company you admire was once a boring spreadsheet that someone didn't quit on.
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OpenAI plans to nearly double its headcount this year. The company that wants to build superintelligence still can't automate its own hiring process. The future of AI is powered by recruiters sending LinkedIn messages.
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NVIDIA expects $1 trillion in chip orders through 2027. Everyone is focused on the GPUs. Nobody is talking about who builds the factories, lays the fiber, and pours the concrete. The $1 trillion AI chip market needs a $2 trillion boring infrastructure market to exist.
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Everyone is talking about AI models. Nobody is talking about what actually runs them. Micron just beat earnings by 35%. Revenue: $23.8B. But memory is just one bottleneck... Power grids. Cooling systems. Land permits. Water supply. The boring infrastructure behind AI is a longer list than most people realize.
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Every company is racing to build AI agents. The company that wins will be the one that builds the best undo button.
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