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Dennis Gotta retweeted
Math was bound to fall first. The purer the field the easier it is for AI to crack.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
I’m convinced that the key to overcoming anything is to shrink the time horizon. Just focus on the next hour. Do one thing that moves you forward. One closed loop. One workout. One hard conversation. Whatever. Do that. Then do it again. Momentum is a byproduct of movement.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
There were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate. We're about to find out what all of them are, as they break.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
We are going to learn how many systems only work today because they are built around friction that will no longer exist soon.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
An owner who is the best salesperson, best operator, and best finance mind in the building has a ceiling, and it's their calendar.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
This moment will be discussed in MBA classes and motivational speeches.
There was no added pressure in his mind because for him it was just about winning the next point and the next game.
Doesn't even bother keeping track of the score in his mind. Just win the next point.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Vielleicht ist es in der Tat Zeit für eine Neuordnung des Parteiensystems, um die extremen Ränder zu schwächen. Ich weiß, ein reines Gedankenspiel, aber in diesen Zeiten ist ja alles möglich:
➡️Wir bräuchten eine Mitte-Rechts-Partei, die für knallharte Politik gegen illegale und kriminelle Ausländer steht, für Westintegration (NATO, EU, Euro), pro Israel, pro Ukraine, für Fachkräftemigration, einen deutlich schlankeren Staat, marktwirtschaftliche Reformen mit niedrigeren Steuern und Sozialabgaben, weniger Schulden, und eine international angepasste Klimapolitik (also kein Klimanationalismus). Diese Partei würde quasi der Zusammenschluss aus MIT/PKM und JU/Junge Gruppe der Union, dem Kubicki/Teuteberg-Flügel der FDP, Team Freiheit, Freie Wähler und ein paar Restvernünftigen in der AfD (wie Lucassen). Potenzial: 25-35%
➡️ Dann wäre Platz für eine linksliberale Partei, die unternehmerfreundlich ist, stark für Bürgerrechte, auch eher für Westintegration und pro Ukraine, aber auch für Klimaschutz mit Deutschland als Vorreiter. Diese könnte sich bilden aus dem Rest der Union, dem
Özdemir-Flügel der Grünen, dem Strack-Zimmermann-Flügel der FDP und Volt. Potenzial: 10-20%.
➡️Dann eine linke Partei, die gewerkschafts- und NGO-nah für mehr Umverteilung (höhere Steuern für Reiche, Vermögensteuer), aber auch für starken Klimaschutz steht. Das wäre die heutige SPD und der bisherige linke Flügel der Grünen sowie die Realos um Ramelow bei der Linken plus die Reolo-Teile des BSW. Potenzial: 20-30%.
➡️ Und dann meinetwegen die Linke als Sammelbecken der linken Putinfreunde, Israelhasser und Linksextremisten. Potenzial: unter 10%
➡️ Und die AfD als Sammelbecken der rechten Russland-Freunde und Rechtsextremisten. Potenzial: unter 15%.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Wenn man sowieso gerade unbeliebt ist, kann man man auch radikalere Reformen machen, die mehr Chancen auf Wachstum bringen. Zaudern, Risiken vermeiden, Halblösungen sind vielleicht sinnvoll, wenn man vorn liegt, wenn man hinten liegt, muss man sich was trauen.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Good post on how to think about process redesign in an enterprise with AI Agents.
Unfortunately for most workflows, there’s no “easy” button. The best way to get real efficiency gains is you have to actually reengineer the process to take advantage of what agents are actually good at and can do differently and faster than people.
One of the challenges of course is that the most important workflows actually space many functions at once, so someone needs to be able to go in and retool how work happens.
“Nobody in that chain is empowered to walk into finance, for example, and say that their 14 step process should actually only be 5 steps. So nobody does it. Instead, you 'apply AI' on what you currently have, and you end up with faster sh*t.”
This is the road ahead for AI diffusion in enterprises. This also presents the clear opportunity for companies - both at the applied AI layer (regardless of the article’s title) and teams or companies that can go and implement transformation into the enterprises. And all roads lead to FDEs one way or another.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Run a company long enough and you realize it just comes down to four things:
Hire A players.
Align incentives.
Track performance.
Get out of their way.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Hiring another person feels productive because something changed.
Fixing the process feels slow because nobody notices.
That’s why companies keep adding payroll to problems that should have been eliminated.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
If you look at your calendar for the last month or your to-do list for next week, or the lack thereof, are you hunting field mice or antelope?
Another way I often approach this is to look at my to-do list and ask: Which one of these, if done, would render all the rest either easier or completely irrelevant?
Separately: Which undone item, if done, would liberate the most energy for me personally?
Reread The 80/20 Principle for good measure.
And if all of that yields no fruit, you might find that the to-do item you’ve been avoiding the longest, punting from week to week or month to month, is precisely the antelope you should be tracking tomorrow morning.
Happy hunting.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Gen Z entrepreneurship increasingly looks like running a portfolio of asymmetric coups rather than betting everything on one serious, long-term project.
One month it’s an AI wrapper. Then a TikTok Shop product, a viral food trend, or buying scarce inventory during a shortage and renting it back at triple the price. In Europe you can also trade the state: find the latest subsidy, regulation or public failure and put yourself in the middle.
Build the website over a weekend, extract as much as possible while the window is open, then abandon it as soon as the trade stops working.
It’s basically entrepreneurial day trading. Low commitment, limited downside, permanent optionality and a small chance one bet makes you rich.
And honestly, it’s rational. Why spend ten years committing to one difficult company when AI lets you place ten cheap bets per year and one winning bet can make you rich?
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
2. Everything's Important
Which means nothing's important.
Which means everything moves a little.
Which means nothing gets truly accomplished.
Which means your list grows but your impact doesn't.
You've confused Motion with Momentum.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“Pressure is a privilege. It means things are expected of you.”
Dennis Gotta retweeted
If I could pick "grown up" concepts I'd like kids to learn about earlier, counter-intuitiveness would be high on the list. One of the problems with teaching things by rote is that you also implicitly teach that the truth is obvious, when in fact it's often surprising.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
We are in the middle of the singularity. The most interesting period in human history. And most people are too busy to care.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Never underestimate how much time and effort you can waste by trying to automate a process you do not understand manually.
Dennis Gotta retweeted
Most CEOs think their team lacks ownership.
In reality, the team is just adapting to how decisions get made.
If everything routes back to you…
that’s not a people problem.
It’s a leadership pattern.
Which one are you actually running? 👇️
#leadership