Business Development, Network as Code @Nokia Ex/ @Rapid_API Instagram: alexwalling_
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2009
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Alex Walling retweeted
today I’m launching Hansel!
work is scattered across apps, websites, tickets, chats, and meetings
Hansel brings it all together
install it now and at the end of your day ask Hansel:
"what did I do today"
🤝 Paid partnership
I saw a tweet comparing Donald Trump to senile Mermaid Man. I cannot stop thinking about it...
So I guess that makes JD Vance Barnacle Boy...?
Wow, this is bleak.
I might have found the pinnacle of bad coffee...if you thought Starbucks was bad...try it in Las Vegas..
if you are ever spiraling about falling behind on AI, just remember most of your extended family probably is still on facebook
Alex Walling retweeted
> return flight to nyc gets canceled by snowstorm
> call united
> immediately connected with customer service (rare)
> voice is uncanny, def AI but they gave it a human-like accent
> takes ~20 min to get rebooked (pretty good imo)
> I ask if it's AI
> "haha no ma'am but I get that a lot"
> I ask it to calculate 228*6647
> it runs the calculation
> ggs
Even if it's not your fault, often it is your responsibility to deal with and how you respond.
My clearest example: Someone rear-ends you. It's not your fault it happened, but it's your responsibility to call insurance, to take your car to the repair shop, etc.
Truth.
Four lessons I learned as a CTO, the hard way:
1. Code can't fix a bad product. Validate your offer before you write a single line. Traffic and tech mean nothing if the solution is wrong.
2. Gut feeling is not a strategy. Build systems to test assumptions. Make decisions with data, not feelings.
3. Delegate to elevate. Document your processes so you can hand them off. Your job is strategy, not firefighting.
4. Focus on profit, not vanity metrics. Traffic, stars on GitHub, tech stack.. none of it matters if the business isn't sound.
Two cliches that seem to be often on my mind right now…
(1) money can’t buy taste…
(2) think of how dumb the average person is, and realize half of them are dumber than that…
It’s really anyone’s guess why these would be on my mind so much.
I randomly saw V for Vendetta was on my flight the other night and decided to rewatch it… (I almost never rewatch movies)
It is a more timely than ever movie in 2025…i would highly recommend rewatching it.
