Brian Swartz
@bswartzzzBuilder, founder, dad, VTer. Climate, energy, startups.
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Show me the incentives and I’ll show you… I read Dan’s books. I hate to see this. Sucks for curious / lay-person social scientists But in hard sciences, it REALLY sucks when research isn’t replicable in industry.
This is what we should teach in high school history.
For years California was a growth machine; between 1900 and 1962 its population grew by 10x, and it went from the 21st most populous state to 1st. But in the 1960s, it began to turn against unbridled growth. This week, I look at how that happened. construction-physics.com/p/how-californ…
“CEOs need to just focus on the big picture,” they say
Hi Kevin - I know my team has reached out and we're trying schedule a call to try to address. Reviewing your support tickets the issues appear to be: - It looks like you were manually entering hours for your team into payroll, instead of having your employees enter their time in…
The ultimate irony of LLMs right here.
Yeah, you've got to design your software under the assumption that nobody reads anything at all
In the 1900s, the US diverted and dammed nearly every major river that runs through the West, ushering in an era of unparalleled dominion of water. Today, California once again struggles with water scarcity — but solar energy could change all that. @CJHandmer on how it works 🧵
Doesn't matter if you're in-office or remote, if this is what your teams' calendars looks like you're ngmi
Imagine if remote work felt this fast
Started re-assessing what a “productive day” looks like after seeing this video
This is happening For the last 10 years, the hard part was making sense of the recording. LLMs solved this overnight, so now the hard part becomes getting the summaries to the right people, at the right time, respects the privacy of closed-door conversations.
prediction: 2023 is tipping point for automatic meeting recording and notes. social cost too high for years, but finally value outweighs it
🎯 Slack and Zoom were built by in-office teams for in-office teams.
Remote works biggest problem is tooling built by in-office companies for in-office workers still being best in class software everyone uses Remote work needs better tooling, built by distributed teams for distributed companies Things that solve the problems vs. compound them
I suspect most don't even want to admit it to themselves. My read: in '23 the outlook is bleak, they fear they're losing, and fear that they'll be blamed for not having done everything they could have done to prevent the slide. Try to go back to the way things used to be.
Companies aren’t honest about why they are forcing Return to Office It has little to do with collaboration, or hallway conversations, or even training new and/or more junior folks But tough to say the real reasons
The future of work is not having to choose between remote and spontaneous conversations. It'll take new tools, and some amount of behavior change, but it'll happen. It'll happen bc so many talented people want remote, and they want remote to be as dynamic as in person.
I’ve had so many great spontaneous conversations since going back to an in-person office culture, it’s hard to believe there was a period during Covid that I believed remote work was better
We'd see fewer RTO announcements if teams applied the same growth mentality to remote work as they do functional work. Your Q3 marketing plan or product roadmap is crafted to test a fresh set of hypotheses. Are you experimenting with your remote playbook with the same rigor?
B2B saas has been picked over the last 10 years. But ... tools make best engineers 10X faster ... Slack connect + session replay makes feedback loops 10X faster ... linkedin + producthunt make distribution 10X faster If you do find something, you can really fly.
Classic SF echo. VCs make noise on Twitter by saying you're only hard core if you're in person. Founder's parrot that back to VCs and people like PG. May be a self fulfilling prophecy in SF / NY, but ambitious founders in other markets know that top talent wins the day.
I've talked to multiple founders recently who have changed their minds about remote work and are trying to get people back to the office. I doubt things will go all the way back to the way they were before Covid, but it looks like they will go most of the way back.
Some of these problems are very real. Some are total bunk and intentionally triggering. He's right: status quo of remote isn't good enough. We have to own that. He's also wrong: we can make it better and we will. The future of work won't be written by the naysayers.
It’s time to admit that Remote Work doesn’t work. WFH Friday is a 4 day work week. Full WFH is a 2 day work week. Every interaction has to be scheduled, which means a lot of information-sharing doesn’t happen. Remote is a great lifestyle, not a way to build a great company.
Great conversation with Sharath about what we're building to help the most ambitious remote companies pick up the tempo, schedule less, and ship more. Looking forward to sharing more about that very soon
New episode alert 🚨 I recently spoke to @bswartzzz who is on a mission to connect people who embrace remote work! We covered: 🔍 Why creating products with empathy is key 💡 His failed startup ideas 🤔 Why did he choose to work in stealth instead of building in public 🚀…
Remote work was a mistake. After two years of being fully remote, we're now going back to in-office. This is a hard task because we need to relocate every team member. Check out our new headquarter and why we are getting back in person. A thread 🧵
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