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Longer notes.
Frameworks and observations from inside founder conversations. Published when there's something worth saying.
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Expectations Are Crap. Agreements Are Gold
If you're disappointed in someone, you probably don't have a people problem. You have an expectation you never turned into an agreement.
AI Is Changing the Job of Product Teams
Four big takeaways from Lenny’s Summit on quality, evals, automation, and the teams behind it all.
Be. Do. Have.
A better operating system for staying ambitious without letting achievement define you
Get your Why’s and What’s in the right order
Before people care about your solution, they need to care about the problem
The Product Meeting Your Company Needs to Have
How to keep Product, Sales and Customer Success on the same page
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Mike & Ned's Links.
A weekly link letter from two former operators. Tools, essays, founder lessons, things we're chewing on.
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Sep 29, 2026
This week → You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner, The World is Changing: AI For Creativity, Nick Saban’s Five Enemies of Greatness, Why We're Building Muse
Sep 22, 2026
This week → Heroes Still Walk Among Us, Thoughts on the current state of venture capital, Lenny’s takeaways from Peter Sellis, Letter from Utopia
Sep 8, 2026
This week → Autonomy and Innovation, Go Big or Go Broke – The Middle Ground is Gone, Running in High Humidity Sucks. Here's How to Train Through It, How to turn one interview into 30 days of content
Aug 31, 2026
This week → Dolly Parton: “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”, The AI Unbundling, How Much Should Founders Get Paid?, You are not a model. Don’t price per token
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