Yesterday a prospect described what he needs, and it was exactly why Cameron Orr and I started Time Machine.
He wants his team ramped before their January kickoff, not during it. Kickoffs burn days on basics. Experienced reps sit through sessions they don't need, and new hires still leave overwhelmed. His plan was to have practice leaders record their sessions and share their decks, so everyone learns, gets tested and practices on their own beforehand. Then the live time goes to advanced roundtables on deal-making and AI.
When he explained the why and the how, he was describing what we built.
I hear this again and again from sales leaders, founders and enablement teams. Companies hire experienced people, sometimes straight from a competitor, and nobody has time to teach them how this company sells and operates. Twelve months later the story is either "they never really ramped" or "it's the Wild West," with every rep and account manager running the playbook from their last job.
And if you think training people is a thing of the past and you just need to train your AI agents, look at the companies we all admire, AI companies included. They still compete hard to hire great people, and they pay top dollar for them. AI doesn't make people worth less. It makes the right people worth a lot more. So making sure every hire actually delivers what you're paying them for matters more now, not less.
Hiring good people is the expensive part. Investing in how they ramp is what keeps you from regretting the hire.
That's what Time Machine does: it turns your leaders' knowledge into practice your team does before it matters.
Thursday I went to the MasterMinds Startup Accelerator Workshop hosted by Scott Fox for @octechweek. The people and the conversations were great. Even better was Scott's coaching and feedback for first-time founders, which was top notch. As I told him, if the room takes away even 10% of what he teaches, they'll do very well.
One theme comes up again and again with first-time founders: they think all investors are the same, and that investors are there to give them money to build their company.
I couldn't help chiming in.
Yes, some VCs and incubators will give you money to start or build a product. But 99% of investors are looking for companies that can return 50x what they put in, especially at the early stage. That means a founder with a product that can scale, and a value proposition already proven with customers. Everything else is the exception. You can find those exceptions, but probably not by sending 100 cold applications through VC website forms.
By definition, a founder's job is to build something from nothing, to go from zero to one. An investor's job is to make money from your something. Each side needs the other, and when great founders and great investors work together they lift each other up. That's also the exception. Most people focus on their own side of the coin.
If you're a first-time founder, prove your product by getting real customers to pay for it. If you need money to build before you can prove it, raise it from friends, people you know, and future customers willing to prepay at 50 cents on the dollar.
Thanks to Scott Fox, @octechweek, and Michael Merchant at Codazen for hosting.
#OCTechWeek #Founders #Startups #Fundraising
Third customer this week, zero training on our AI agent. They just say it in plain English: "build my reps courses and role plays from my meeting earlier." Few minutes later, live.
Took us over a year. Not a chat bot slapped on. Data, expertise and character.
Talked to another happy customer today. LA medical device company helping people with sleep apnea, hiring faster than they can onboard.
Since Feb every new hire gets trained through Time Machine. CS1 to CS2 to CS3, it trains them for each step up.
Thats why we built it.
Glance face unlock by @ayandexyz now runs on my M1 MacBook Pro (@omarchy 4, Aurora kernel by @AuroraSilicon).
Swapped MediaPipe for onnxruntime on ARM and fixed camera stalls and detection. Small tested patches are up for review. Ayan, would love your eyes on them. @OmarchyMac
The patches:
Apple Silicon series: github.com/ayandexyz/glance-…
Omarchy plugin README: github.com/ayandexyz/omarchy…
At a J.P. Morgan panel during LA Tech Week, the host asked the room: "How do you feel about AI right now?"
My honest answer: two opposite things at once.
10, 20, 50 years out? Thrilled. AI is rewiring software, science and robotics. I grew up on sci-fi. This is the future I've been waiting for.
The next 2 to 5 years? Dizzy. Nobody can call the winners. The model or best practice you bet on today might be gone in 6 months.
Excited and uneasy at the same time.
Then again, that's being a founder. Living with contradictions twice a day.
How would you answer?
Spent the day at the Google for Startups event for LA Tech Week and met a few cool people.
It's amazing how many people also went to SF Tech Week, and the comparisons were all over the place. LA definitely has a different vibe.
One of the best discussions was with an ex-CFO turned founder who is building something for CFOs running $50M revenue orgs.
In LA it's almost guaranteed that half the people you meet are in B2C.
As you can see from the pics, an outdoor event is screaming LA.
#LATechWeek
KITT from Knight Rider is back. Is this the best use of the Touch Bar or what? 🔴🟠 #omarchyMac
This is what gets me going. It's how I contribute to the world.
A few days after signing up, a new client told us: "I also already made a few edits/additions to the DSCR course using AI collaborator. Super easy." Then: "It's gonna be fun collaborating. Just getting started." That's special.
Enterprise software used to take a long time to make an impact. AI makes it much faster to understand a customer's business and products.
The trick is building a system that:
1. Understands tribal knowledge.
2. Adapts to what's always changing, from SOPs to new value props, so the right message shows up in every customer interaction from presales to post-sales.
3. Has a beautiful design that gets the work done without anyone typing a prompt, with the power of AI agents and skills or plugins behind it, through Grok Bot (my fav), OpenAI (the first), and Claude (the elite).
Thanks @dhh for inviting me to the Omarchy Apple Vintage group, and for the warm welcome to "five new vintage Mac folks!"
My travel companion is a 2017 12" MacBook (MacBook10,1) running Omarchy, and it's great to see my field report already landing in the code: CS4208 speaker unmute, facetimehd breaking on kernel 7.2, and brcmfmac/hci_uart/NVMe defaults.
The group's mission is simple: make sure every vintage Apple machine runs Omarchy flawlessly and smoothly. Good hardware deserves a long life.
Impacting people and making their lives better with technology and innovation has always been my core value. Can't wait to take this omakase Linux to the moon.
#OmarchyMac
Ike Kavas retweeted
Today in Omarchy (10-Oct-2026)
I keep wondering what happens when Omarchy stops treating every new kind of computer as a separate project. Today gave me a pretty good answer.
🍎 Mac support moves upstream
Ryan merged 111 commits that bring the shared Apple Silicon work from the Mac forks into Omarchy’s Quattro branch. The Mac still needs its own boot packages, but hardware detection, package selection, desktop behaviour and the hooks for setup and updates now live in the main codebase.
That distinction matters. “Runs on ARM” is not enough to tell Omarchy whether it has found a Mac, a Snapdragon laptop or a VM. The new platform handling gives each machine the right packages and boot path without making x86 users inherit somebody else’s hardware setup.
Credit to @maralcbr, whose earlier work this carries, and the contributors who helped get it over the line. The Mac installer and package recipes received follow-up fixes today too. This is a substantial Quattro development merge, not a new stable Mac release.
🐉 Snapdragon gets its place back
Birk Skyum restored Snapdragon X and Yoga Slim 7x setup on the rebuilt n1x branch. The Yoga’s hardware was used to check platform detection and setup scripts. A Snapdragon image also installed and booted in an ARM VM, which is useful evidence, though a VM cannot prove the image boots on a Snapdragon laptop.
The proposed ISO build for that laptop is still a draft. I’m glad the project is being that precise about the difference. “The installer worked in a VM” and “take this USB stick to your Yoga” are rather different promises.
🖥️ Gliff stops eating memory
Gliff had a nasty long-session leak. The report found 7.25 GB of anonymous heap after 8.5 hours because its Vulkan code allocated another command buffer on every submission.
A merged fix reuses one buffer. On the contributor’s Intel GPU, memory held at 35 MB during a 100-second check after the change. That is promising, though it is not an eight-hour retest, and the GPU-dependent test skips machines without a GPU. Ryan also added an ARM package build for Gliff today.
🚀 My Tokyo Liftoff theme enters review
I submitted Tokyo Liftoff to the theme registry. The automated submission check passed, and the listing PR is open for a maintainer to merge.
It also pointed out that my four backgrounds total 92.7 MB and suggested making them smaller. Fair. Apparently I can spend all day thinking about clean platform boundaries and still send the marketplace four enormous PNGs.
Feel the same way with my MacBook Air.
Thanks @dhh
Omarchy continues to amaze me. I have made 32 customizations that would have taken me hours, all through prompting. It's working exactly like I want.
This is a 13-year-old iMac and it works as well as brand new hardware for web browsing, videos, emails
Thank you @dhh!
Ike Kavas retweeted
Thrilled to welcome @spacexai as a Founding Corporate Patron for the Omacom Foundation. That's $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for the maintenance and development of Omarchy. Maybe soon they'll be beamed straight from orbit? Let's go 🚀🌕 omarchy.org/news/2026/10/spa…
Ike Kavas retweeted
Omarchy is installed and running on the M4 MacBook Air, fully. Working out a few kinks I’m finding and then opening up the repo.
#OmarchyLinux #OmarchyMac
Ike Kavas retweeted
I've never been more excited to hit merge on a PR than I was for this one. 🎉
It took 15 people on five continents to get here.
@jondkinney kept a branch alive for almost a year. @tiredkebab's fork pushed the idea further. Then came a lot of long conversations with @maralcbr and @bi9kahuna to get it over the line.
Major props to the rest of the Omarchy M team who helped in various ways as well: @martiano @riverleaf88 @buildwithdjdev @RyanTheTide @Acelogic_ @LiamRay1O @ewninjaofficial @jaidipsubedi @JoshuaSWarren @shawnyeager @novuon_ai @SiliconForested
Thank you all. This one's special, and lays important groundwork.
