🚀It’s launch day @woven_teams and I'm STOKED With our $8m raise, we're launching Woven Match to address the biggest waste in software engineer hiring. Here's how it helps

Beyond excited to be launching a new product today. It's called Roux (pronounce it "roo"). I'm a South Louisiana boy, and where I'm from, a roux is how every good gumbo starts. Everything else in the pot builds on it. That's exactly how we use Roux, in our client work at Gumbo: send out a roux to collect inputs from all of the stakeholders, then build on the results. We use it for product dev kickoffs, budget planning, sourcing new ideas from our team....every role at Gumbo uses it. So we decided to make this one public and give out some free starter credits! Go test it out and let us know what you think! DM's are open. helloroux.com

In recent years, Idaho has achieved one of the most dramatic state-level reductions in regulation ever. Instead of assuming old regulations should remain on the books, it made agencies justify the ones they wanted to keep. Since 2019, the state has eliminated roughly half of its regulatory code. New report by @ManhattanInst manhattan.institute/article/…

Want to go out on a limb: in 10 years people will be cranky that there aren't enough data centers in poor or minority communities

Technological changes that made physical strength dramatically less valuable in the labor market didn’t make it unimportant to exercise, if anything the reverse.

A data center being built by Fluidstack, Cipher Digital, and Anthropic is saving a west Texas town's water supply Colorado City is getting new pumps, pipes, and wells in exchange for a 300 MW data center that'll also radically increase their property tax revenue! Everyone wins!

Sure, here are the answers: 1. Y Combinator was our first investor in 2017. They've invested in over 5,600 companies. 2. Just one example of crime dropping because of Flock? Okay, here's a random one. Delano Police deployed 20 Flock cameras (eventually growing to 45) in 2023. In a year, the Chief stated that "because of the Flock cameras", the department saw a 56% reduction in crime (source: turnto23.com/news/in-your-ni…) 2. If by "mass surveillance" you mean "unconstitutional/illegal surveillance", then I believe it becomes unconstitutional/illegal when it actually violates the fourth amendment. All courts that have heard ALPR cases have ultimately deemed that ALPR does not violate the fourth amendment. People on the internet may disagree but the courts have been clear. Here are a bunch of the cases I'm referencing (x.com/JoeTill16390861/status…) 4. Flock clearly improves crime clearance rates. There have been multiple studies done on this + multiple agencies who have published their crime clearance improvement stats across things like homicide, robbery, auto theft, etc. Here's the most recent one from 3 weeks ago (crimrxiv.com/pub/zleg04q3/re…) 5. I don't believe one exists, but you're more than welcome to create one. Error can be documented through agency audits and public records. Wrongful stops go to zero when an agency follows policy. Austin PD did a study in 2025 that showed that they had zero incorrect stops after 13,122 ALPR matches because they correctly verified each hit before pulling over the vehicles. This makes sense, since a simple ALPR alert by itself is not enough to detain someone. The good news is that this precision still greatly exceeds that of human beings playing the game of telephone, trying to find the suspect vehicle. 6. Concerns regarding privacy are reasonable. These concerns are settled by courts, and fully settled by community desires and configurations. Again, courts have ruled consistently re: ALPR and fourth amendment. Also, each community can go to their local city council and voice their opinions on how they would like their public safety strategy to be run. Some will choose more safety, others will choose less. It's up to them. 7. There is no reliable published Flock-only total for the past three years. Several recent alleged abuses were surfaced through audit reviews and led to arrests. Bad cops have been routinely caught after Flock's auditing assistance went live and showed who they all were. That was the point. I wish every police database did this, since the other databases are routinely abused with no auditing guardrails. We're hoping legislation forces all databases to have Flock's level of auditing. 8. There are many safeguards in place regarding Flock misuse. Case numbers are required for each search, search reasons are required, every search is logged and audit assistance automatically flags anomalies, potential misuse actors are proactively locked out. This is why you see so many news stories about police misuse of Flock vs other police databases, because Flock is the only one catching people who misuse their tech. Cops who run plates for friends via DMV, run their dauther's boyfriend's criminal history, etc, rarely get caught. And also, the same process that holds a police officer accountable for misusing their firearm, their lights and sirens, etc, still exists for Flock misuse as well. 9. Several layers prevent Flock from repurposing customer data. Customers own and control their data, per their contracts. The contracts restrict Flock's use. Data retention schedules automatically dictate deletion of the data, based on agency chosen configurations. Agencies control their data sharing. All searches are logged. 10. Giving police a 24/7 GPS tracker for every citizen is an exaggerated example designed to make people think it's the same thing as stationary cameras at select intersections taking pictures of vehicles (not people). Per the courts who have opined, doing the former is a clear violation of the fourth amendment, but the latter is not.

10 years ago I heard about Jobs to be Done (JTBD) and made it the focus of my career. Here are my my biggest mistakes about JTBD: 1. I was dismissive of the work of Tony Ulwick. His work is so practical for anyone who is building something and wants to make it valuable for customers. I simply do not think you can make a great product without applying his JTBD thinking and/or ODI. "Was dismissive" but no longer. 2. I was drawn in by listening to Bobby Moesta interviewing someone about a Porsche they had purchased. I thought whatever Bob was doing -- I want to do that. But Bob is great at what he does because of his unique experiences and skills (and constraints like being dyslexic). 3. JTBD (Moesta) is like a portal into the customer's life and it allows you to see with high clarity how they desire and decide things and looking at the world this way opens up beautiful patterns. I can't imagine trying to create something new without looking through his lens. BUT 4. That JTBD interview is powerful for everyone in the room. But so much of what you learn/experience you gain by having that conversation is tacit. It upgrades your OS, but is really hard to help others get as much value. 5. JTBD (Moesta) lends itself to overthinking. Sometimes customers really just want a quarter inch drill. You can use JTBD to make it things way more complicated than it needs to be. 6. JTBD (the Moesta interpretation) lends itself to wasting time arguing about stupid shit. It almost never matters if something is an an anxiety or a habit or event 1 or event 2. 7. It's really easy to describe a JTBD so abstractly that a product person can't do anything with it. 8. There is a fine line between empathetic thinking and just making stuff up. Empathy helps you listen and learn while you are talking to someone. But keeping the empathy going after the conversation is how thoughtful people inject bad data into a project. About the Two JTBDs (and this is where I might butcher their work. 9. Moesta and Ulwick mean different things by JTBD. Ulwick's work is excellent at the functional side. Moesta's work is excellent at the social/emotional/long timeframe dimensions. 10. I have found it most helpful to use Tony's work to make the customer's JTBD very concrete: receive a payment, run a campaign to get leads. 11. I have found it most helpful to use Bob's work to make the customer's JTBD about a transformation or future state they desire. 12. Putting them together: a customer executes a core functional JTBD over and over with the idea that in the long they will achieve some sort of transformation. That's how the customer, task, product work together. As I shift my focus from consulting/researching back into making product -- I am using both to the fullest possible extent because I find that the customer data structured in JTBD thinking is impactful context for any agent helping me build.

The price of continued existence is that it should be as annoying to do bioterrorism as it is to start a beauty parlor

"How could the boomers have been so stupid as to reject nuclear energy?" "We need to reject data centers that will fund our schools, cut our taxes, keep China from world domination, and employ our neighbors" - same people

I used to think like this. how can I minimize baby time and get to fun kid time? Now I'm on baby 3 and am trying to figure out how to space more babies so we have one in the house for as long as possible My baby provides instant access to sublime joy any time of day

We've lost the plot as a society on this, Winston Churchill went to a school that filled him with a sense of destiny. When was the last time you've seen something meant to inspire kids that way?

Saying “build affordable housing” is like saying “build used cars”

I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you wants politics to solve man's search for meaning and I want politics to deliver a prosperous, safe, free society in which everyone can go find meaning in something other than politics.

Last month, Sol was cheating. This month, his big brother hacked Hugging Face directly The alignment situation is moving fast!

love the visual of an oai security researcher seeing the hf post about a mysterious automated attack, chuckling at the timing, then slowly alt-tabbing over to check how that exploitgym eval run is going

Our schools are genuinely impressive given the relative child poverty in Indiana. 1 out of 7 of our kids live in poverty. If you take that into account, we rank #6 (!!) in the 2024 NAEP 8th grade reading assessment. Hoosier schools are incredible.