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One of the biggest challenges companies face right now, and I'm including my own, is a balance almost nobody has figured out.
Anyone on the team can now build a product with AI. That's a superpower. And it comes with three bills: security, incentives and real productivity.
Shopify is the best example of how you pay the second one.
In April 2025 Tobi Lütke sent the memo we all read: using AI became a baseline expectation, it went into performance reviews, and nobody could ask for a new hire without first proving AI couldn't do the job.
Not long ago I was talking to an international insider at the company and they told me the second half, the part that never made it into any memo. The incentives worked too well. Lots of people doing the same thing. Teams copying ideas and mini-products from other teams. Not to solve anything, but to have it on record that they were using AI.
In September Lütke said it out loud: inside Shopify they now call them "slop grenades". AI-generated stuff someone throws without reading, that the person next to them has to review, fix and summarize.
It's Goodhart's law, same as always. Reward the input (using the tool) and the input explodes. The output (problems solved) doesn't have to move. Sometimes it gets worse.
The other two bills come with numbers too:
43% of companies that suffered a security breach in 2026 had unapproved AI somewhere in the chain. A year earlier it was 20%.
40% of workers say they've received AI-made work with no substance in the past month, and cleaning it up takes almost two hours each time.
The easy move is the wrong conclusion: hit the brakes. But the company that bans AI doesn't have less of it. It has the same AI on personal accounts where nobody can see it. That 43% comes from there.
I don't have a finished answer. I have three things I'm trying to apply:
Build the highway, don't police the cars. One shared infrastructure, data connected, security solved once, where building inside is easier than building outside.
Reward the problem solved, never the tool. If nobody can explain what changed for a customer or for the P&L, it doesn't count.
And a register of everything that gets built, with an expiry date. According to Gartner, 59% of AI prototypes never reach production. That's not a failure. Nobody knowing which ones died is.
When everyone can build, the leader's job is no longer deciding what gets built. It's deciding what counts.
What are you measuring: usage or results?
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My take on the Remco “seat post gate.”
I think that he did not have the super high torque to follow Tadej and co. Likely due to his TT focused training he was not on the same explosive level. Instead on making sense of it and he instead mentally lost focus on ways to reshape the race. That focus went to a sense of failure as his current effort didn’t match his expectations. With race brain he panicked and searched for an explanation for his legs being pinned and found the possible seat post height as the reason.
By stopping when the race was on when he had a functional bike it also showed his irrational focus was more on finding an explanation why he couldn’t follow rather than getting back to Tadej. It also showed he would rather end his race to prove he didn’t have the legs in that moment rather than join everyone else chasing right away.
His incredible fitness and the fatigue of the other riders on such a hard course allowed him to get back into the race. I don’t think the proper seat post height did this.
In the end he proved the second best rider on the day and likely him being unable to match the high torque efforts when Tadej escaped allowed his legs to have more in them then the others in the end.
Remco continues to be the most “human” freak of this new generation and I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. Maybe his own this stuff more in the future because we all can relate so well, he will gain even more fans.
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No sé a vosotros, pero a mi, esto que ha hecho Volvo en social media, me parece una maravilla creativa.
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The importance of genes is less than that of our habits for health or performance, but among people with similar habits and lifestyle, genes are what make the difference.
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Este mes, en @VIKO y @Mkt4eCommerce predicamos con el ejemplo y nos vamos a dar un buen buceo en el mundo de la #IA aplicada a los negocios digitales.
Organizado por @adrianaira3 y @montesthalia con la @M4CAcademy.
Arranca el CRACK @joselcs de @Diverger_ai
Abro 🧵 ⬇️
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"10 cosas que sí y 10 cosas que no"
Genial este post de Alex Gonzalez de Hundred, todo un referente para mi en el mundo del emprendimiento, pese a no llevar mucho tiempo ni ser una empresa tech.
Cero bullshit y muchas joyas en estos 20 puntos
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Governments should be freaking out about the fertility crisis. Eg:
🇫🇷France initially lost WW1 & WW2 because of fertility
🇺🇸The US' power comes more from population than economy
🇰🇷South Korea might disappear this century
🇮🇱Israel actively fights this
Thread 🧵:
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Marissa Mayer on scaling Google and the internal black market CEO Eric Schmidt created for new hires
“One of the things that [former Google CEO Eric Schmidt] talked about a lot was that at every order of magnitude, you should expect every process to break—and you should expect to have to completely reinvent it. It’s very different to deal with tens of people versus hundreds of people versus thousands of people”
Marissa shares a story of how one time Eric reinvented Google’s hiring process in a way that initially frustrated everyone:
“We had closed the year at about 200 people, and we had a plan to double the size of the company over the coming year. Eric showed up in March, looked at the plan, and said: ‘there’s just no way you guys are going to be able to double the number of employees and keep the quality and culture the way you want it to be.’”
Eric then told the company that he would let them collectively hire 50 people that year—versus the 200 they were planning on hiring. And to enforce this, he created 50 laminated dollar bills with Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s faces on them and distributed them to Google’s VPs. Every new hire that year would require one “Larry & Sergey” bill.
Naturally, a black market for these “Larrys & Sergeys” developed, and as Marissa describes, it became surprisingly efficient:
“What would happen is the Head of Sales would have one and he would really need a new feature to make a sale. So he would [say to the engineer]: ‘look, I’m going to give you this Larry & Sergey but you have to promise you’re going to use it to hire someone who is going to build this feature to secure this revenue.’”
She continues:
“As painful as it was because there was way too much work to slow down our hiring like this, [the new process] was actually a really good moment for the company because it made us be really thoughtful about how we were scaling and where we were putting our resources. We had to be that much more thoughtful about what to prioritize and where the opportunities were. Yes, hypergrowth is really fun, but you also need to realize that you want that hypergrowth to happen in terms of users and revenue—and not necessarily in terms of the size of the company.”
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Great framing on AI from @benedictevans pitch.com/v/8r5d9k?s=03
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Para releer cada mañana:
collabfund.com/blog/a-few-th…
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The single biggest commonality of the most successful investors having interviewed 2,850.
The large majority of the best moved many times in their childhood, different homes, countries, schools.
By far the biggest commonality.
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Canela fina la presentación del Investor Day de @on_running: además de números (creciendo una salvajada) a partir de la slide 50 comparten su estrategia para construir la próxima gran marca atlética.
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😍 No se lo podía creer.
👏 La ovación de todo el pabellón a @PalomadelrioTVE.
El último día de una leyenda del periodismo deportivo español.
🎥 @andredevesa31
Victor Font retweeted
Que la FIFA te suspenda es como cuando tú colega, el que sólo lleva un cubata menos de los 375 que te has tomado tú, te dice que conduce él que tú no estás bien.
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Percentage of people who would fight for their country:
🇵🇰 Pakistan → 89%
🇻🇳 Vietnam → 89%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh → 86%
🇦🇫 Afghanistan → 76%
🇮🇳 India → 75%
🇫🇮 Finland → 74%
🇹🇷 Turkey → 73%
🇨🇳 China → 71%
🇮🇩 Indonesia → 70%
🇺🇦 Ukraine → 62%
🇷🇺 Russia → 59%
🇲🇽 Mexico → 56%
🇸🇪 Sweden → 55%
🇳🇬 Nigeria → 50%
🇧🇷 Brazil → 48%
🇵🇱 Poland → 47%
🇺🇸 US → 44%
🇦🇷 Argentina → 43%
🇩🇰 Denmark → 37%
🇨🇦 Canada → 30%
🇦🇺 Australia → 29%
🇫🇷 France → 29%
🇬🇧 UK → 27%
🇨🇿 Czechia → 23%
🇪🇸 Spain → 21%
🇮🇹 Italy → 20%
🇩🇪 Germany → 18%
🇳🇱 Netherlands → 15%
🇯🇵 Japan → 11%
* according to 2015 survey
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In order to protest against the club’s lack of recruitments following their relegation to the Spanish third tier, Málaga fans went to the airport and greeted random strangers as if they were new signings.
[@carliyolenervio]