Ben Block

It’s nice to know I’m not over the hill in founder-years.

10 years building @GozAround and I've been doing it all wrong. Mistake #1: Building in silence because I was terrified of failing publicly. Mistake #2: Letting other people's "proven" strategies override my own vision. The irony? We're building a platform to connect community needs with resources - literally about bringing people together - while I've been hiding in my home office. Fear is expensive. It's cost me a decade of potential feedback, connections, and course corrections. So here's the pivot: building in public starting now. The messy experiments. The failed launches. The 3am "what if we tried..." moments. The pivots that make you question everything. Starting with this admission: I have no idea if we're solving corporate social impact the right way. I don't even know if the world wants what we're building! But it's time to find out for real. Who else is building something they believe in but scared to talk about it?

@ChadGriffiths @mermaidandmouse

Augmented reality use case - before any strike order or weapon release a photo of the families of those targeted is displayed. Harder to kill when you see the humans involved. #Peace #humanity

I’m starting to see some pretty strange questions asked to #ChatGPT. Yes, it’s an amazing tool with tons of applications. However, it’s not a time machine, crystal ball or life coach people. #timetoseetheoracle #ai

Hey @GoDaddy - if you’re going to market to #canada’s “can do” entrepreneurs, don’t cut out the entire west of the country. Some of the best cities for business are in #Alberta and #BritishColumbia.

They should really give you a set of these when you leave the hospital. Critical tools of the dad trade. #dadlife #toymechanic

I feel lied to @SwissChaletCA. #truthinpackaging #csr #GoGreen

I wonder which is more stressful...surgery on an anesthetized patient, or cutting a busy 3 month old's nails. Cuz I have a full body sweat going hoping not to draw blood. So far, so good. #MedTwitter #parentstress #donthurtme

It must be wildly entertaining to be @elonmusk - every Tweet, whim, joke, business move, whatever produces a frenzy of opinion, commentary, speculation, even market movement. If we all live in a simulation, he may be the game master. "What will happen if I say THIS??"