Opinionated software almost always wins.

Strict constraints force you to ship.

Ruthlessly simplify how to do business.

Subtract first. Add only what screams for existence.

This year I reinvest freed time where it matters.

Family. Self-care. Loved ones.

Make these incompressible.

AI is forcing software engineering to become practically agnostic but strategically specialized.

The whole job is shifting up the stack.

If you honestly believe AI offers zero productivity boost, brace yourself. You are in for a very difficult decade.

Ideas without revenue have zero worth.

You're not special until someone pays you.

Before revenue? You have a $0 solution.

Every day pre-revenue is borrowed time.

I keep failing to see where simplicity is not the answer.

Stop polishing. Stop positioning. Stop explaining why your solution is worth X.

Get one person to pay X.

Then you have something real.

70% of CEOs said in 2026, they plan to either reduce headcount or keep their teams the same size.

You've been warned.

Diversify your income. Stop fighting AI. You will be replaced.

Every AND in your strategy is a refusal to commit.

You're not building options. You're building excuses.

Pick one problem. Solve it brutally well.

I don't want to force engineers to use AI.

I don't need to. I just evaluate performance.

True AI-enabled engineers are certainly 20X faster.

You're being this outpaced? Then you have no place in a competitive business.

20K USD monthly signed in one day. That's a very nice end of year.

So so grateful for how 2025 ends. (It started awfully.)

Please, please, please.

Remote workers, invest in a good-quality mic. Good quality input is basic infrastructure to communicate clearly.

Don't sleep on it.

Want to debate tech stacks for 3 weeks?

That's a $15K conversation about a $200 decision. Pick boring tech. Ship the product. Validate the market.

Check your ego. ↓

Your team knows you're lying when you say you're fine.

Good morning to everyone but the CTOs who migrate their profitable Rails stack to Go and burn $1M because they're bored.

Scarcity forces ruthless focus on revenue.

The best filter for strategy? Pretend you only have $3K/month. Even if you raised $500K.

The non-technical founder trap: More is better.

More code. More features. More devs.

Every line of code you don't write is a win.