Justin Duke
@jmduke
Founder @buttondown. Partner @thirdsouthcap.
last night of paternity leave (such as it is/was). the work begins anew tomorrow; feeling luckier than ever.
this is true, but also “we don’t need to exist” is a completely fine and reasonable precondition. the vast majority of profitable businesses (basecamp and buttondown included!) do not need to exist: that does not mean they don’t provide value, nor does it mean they are failures
Feature parity is just another way to say “we don’t need to exist”.
my "P.S. I'm not pitching anything yet" has a people asking a lot of questions already answered by my postscript
a friend piped in the entire text of grugbrain.dev into Claude Code as a joke and accidentally created the perfect tool
A very good list
A concise list of advice for new managers: * just learn scrum * don’t put 1:1s at the end of the day * you’re not a therapist * don’t try to be funny until you’re a better manager * go on-call * if you think you have to fire them, fire them * you’re bad at hiring. start…
Whenever you can write eight lines of code to impress the [checks database] 228 users who have subscribers that are actually Slack channels, you write the eight lines of code.
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Storybooks continue to be an incredibly high-leverage way to deal with nuanced state spaces without going insane
you get better at whatever you invest your time in x.com/xedseraph/stat…