Entrepreneur / Researcher / Writer - Founder of @ABLSecom / Alumni of @Shopify

Toronto, 🇨🇦
Joined November 2012
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build real things with intense reflection study edge cases and pioneers create tight feedback loops build in public oscillate between making and thinking form small, intense communities favor speed over perfection
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Hear me out… a search engine that only indexes and ranks great independent publishers.
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Amen.
If I have a single meeting in a day, day is ruined
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Looking to connect with more Toronto entrepreneurs and founders in AI and tech this Q4. Open to coffee meetups, one-on-one chats, and attending a few meetups! If you’re building, innovating, or diving deep into tech, let’s connect. 👋
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman did a Reddit AMA today w/ CPO Kevin Weil, SVP of Research Mark Chen, VP of Engineering Srinivas Narayanan, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. Here's some of the highlights 🧵
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Action isn’t taken without trust. Transactions aren’t made without trust. Creators have gotten great at capturing attention, but that isn’t sufficient for building a business.
the attention economy is dead. it's the trust economy now.
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Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust. When you’re up, it’s never as good as it seems, and when you’re down, you never think you’re going to be up again. But life goes on. youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6tzjbI…
100% Your business income or money absolutely doesn't last forever, or at least you shouldn't count on it My YouTube channel in 2008 went from making $8000/mo to then less than $1000/mo over a few months And that's why I switched to startups in 2013 Also inflation (although that'd actually be a reason to spend more now 😂)
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WARNING: this is a long ass post (pt 2.) I condensed 10 years of work on @MorningBrew into a 6-step process to build a successful newsletter business from scratch. Let's hop in...
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Elon has shown us this week what the future looks like. Robovan and robotaxis, humanoid robotics, green parks instead of parking lots, tunnels, rockets that are fully reusable and chopstick shenanigans. All of it sci-fi, but greater, and here, and incredible.
Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!
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Does anyone feel like the internet seemingly changes more in a month now than it did in its entirety between 2006 and 2022? However, it mostly feels like that here on X. Im not sure it feels that way anywhere else.
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Running season is over for me. Pretty proud of this achievement. Getting back into bodybuilding for the winter.
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Me and my daughter are bulking up. 💪🏼
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Worked with a security professional over the last 2 days to figure out how hackers was able to use my domain to send out nearly 1 million emails. Apparently my private email encryption keys were stolen or (longshot) cracked.
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I thought I understood. I didn’t. It’s hard to get anything done when you have a newborn.
If you’re in your in 20’s and your building cool shit and burning nights being productive and you don’t have kids…. Keep riding it!! Eeeeeeverything changes when you have kids!
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If you’re in your in 20’s and your building cool shit and burning nights being productive and you don’t have kids…. Keep riding it!! Eeeeeeverything changes when you have kids!
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I trained a chatbot on 5,500+ pages of consumer, product & market trends. (FREE) 🚀 Not sure of its true potential yet, but I’m excited to explore how it can be useful by combining data, personal insights & the right prompts. Would love your feedback! Who’s it for? What’s next? 🤔 nichequest.carrd.co/
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The best 6 months of my life.
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If distribution is the new moat, where is the Y-Combinator for creating distribution, not software? I don’t think it exists. There isn’t much product risk anymore in most startups. Only distribution risk.
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