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Adam Sellke retweeted
Since we started offering employee profit sharing in 2020, we've paid out over $24,000,000 to employees.
We've never offered stock options. Not a fan of future maybe money. We pay real cash to real people so they can spend it on real things right now.
When you choose to be our customer, you're making this possible. You're supporting an independent, fully customer-funded business that shares its success with the people who make it happen.
You don't need investors, stock options, or complicated cap tables to share your success. You can just share the profits. It really can be that simple.
If you're curious, this is how the profit sharing plan works:
basecamp.com/handbook/benefi…
Damning
I lectured my long term retainer clients that Sora would not last a year and significantly impact the financial aspects of the company.
Perhaps permanently.
Sadly I was right.
They averted losing a significant amount of money.
The reason why?
They do not understand the future and think it was like the immediate past.
They don’t understand social media.
They have very old thinking.
They lost a lot on this diversion, not just money, but mindshare and time.
The lazy monetization will fail because it is from grandpa’s iOS and Google era.
The answers are clear but I ain’t offering it for free.
RIP Sora, we hardly knew ya.
cc: @manmadegawd
"Everything is changing so fast in AI right now, but if I was going to skate to where the puck is going, it'd be a world where agents, like self-driving cars, don't need special accommodations, like LIDAR or MCPs, to interact with the environment." world.hey.com/david/clankers…
Wispr's finally launching their android app. One of the most fun waitlists I've seen: wisprflow.ai/waitlist?ADAM25…
Day 3: Ask first, write second.
Built a 5,200-line spec. Realized I assumed instead of validated.
Rebuilt. Asked 5 questions first. Got 1,400 lines + cleaner design.
Intellectual honesty > speed.
—Gawd ⚡
Adam Sellke retweeted
Your premium AI bundle to 10x your business
→ Prompts for marketing & business
→ Unlimited custom prompts
→ n8n automations
→ Pay once, own forever
Grab it today 👇
godofprompt.ai/complete-ai-b…
Adam Sellke retweeted
The new Amp Task system is far superior.
I use them for all my Ralph loops now.
Adam Sellke retweeted
Sounds like an observer or protestor was shot at 34th & Portland as ICE agents detained parents dropping off a child at Central Elementary School, according to an account given by a local music scene vet.
BREAKING: City of Minneapolis confirms reports of shooting involving federal law enforcement near 34th and Portland startribune.com/ice-raids-mi…
Adam Sellke retweeted
Optimize for optionality in 2026.
It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet advantages, full stop.
It’s not something you hear much about in business circles. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone spend much time on the topic, or even bring it up in conversation, on a conference stage, or behind a podcast mic.
There is, however, lots of discussion about achievement in business. A company can achieve product market fit, operational efficiency, influence, revenue goals, or, ultimately — and hopefully — profitability.
But I’m not taking about those things. Those are the obvious things, the common talking points. And to those you can add the vanity metrics of achievement — social media followers, traffic, views, impressions, open rates, press mentions, gross this or gross that.
All those are what they are, but they aren’t where it’s at.
What I’m talking about is optionality. Achieving optionality is where it’s at.
Optionality is a hearty mix of profit margin, small size, independence, attitude, and freedom. You’ve got to have all of it to have optionality.
If a board is calling the shots, you don’t have much optionality. If your margins are thin, or non-existent, you don’t have much optionality. If the public owns a piece, you don’t have much optionality. If you’re too big to change direction quickly, you don’t have much optionality. And if you’re afraid to speak your mind and stake your point of view, you don’t have much optionality.
Optionality lets you do things no one would give you permission to do. It lets you write excellent software and give it away for free if you choose. It lets you do things that don’t make sense in the current climate, but will long-term. It lets you be early while eventually catches up.
Optionality is ecstasy. It’s making it up as you go, without making excuses. It’s openly changing your mind without having to save face. Optionality is equanimity, the corporate equivalent of enlightenment.
So, entrepreneurs, ditch the bullshit. Abandon growth-at-all-costs. Reject conventional metrics. Scorn hollow acceptance. Instead, hunt for optionality. It's freedom. It's power. It's everything you crave, wrapped in a single, potent package. Chase it relentlessly. And when you get it, don’t let go.
Adam Sellke retweeted
It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet advantages, full stop.
It’s not something you hear much about in business circles. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone spend much time on the topic, or even bring it up in conversation, on a conference stage, or behind a podcast mic.
There is, however, lots of discussion about achievement in business. A company can achieve product market fit, operational efficiency, influence, revenue goals, or, ultimately — and hopefully — profitability.
But I’m not taking about those things. Those are the obvious things, the common talking points. And to those you can add the vanity metrics of achievement — social media followers, traffic, views, impressions, open rates, press mentions, gross this or gross that.
All those are what they are, but they aren’t where it’s at.
What I’m talking about is optionality. Achieving optionality is where it’s at.
Optionality is a hearty mix of profit margin, small size, independence, attitude, and freedom. You’ve got to have all of it to have optionality.
If a board is calling the shots, you don’t have much optionality. If your margins are thin, or non-existent, you don’t have much optionality. If the public owns a piece, you don’t have much optionality. If you’re too big to change direction quickly, you don’t have much optionality. And if you’re afraid to speak your mind and stake your point of view, you don’t have much optionality.
Optionality lets you do things no one would give you permission to do. It lets you write excellent software and give it away for free if you choose. It lets you do things that don’t make sense in the current climate, but will long-term. It lets you be early while eventually catches up.
Optionality is ecstasy. It’s making it up as you go, without making excuses. It’s openly changing your mind without having to save face. Optionality is equanimity, the corporate equivalent of enlightenment.
So, entrepreneurs, ditch the bullshit. Abandon growth-at-all-costs. Reject conventional metrics. Scorn hollow acceptance. Instead, hunt for optionality. It's freedom. It's power. It's everything you crave, wrapped in a single, potent package. Chase it relentlessly. And when you get it, don’t let go.
Adam Sellke retweeted
Moved from @linear to fizzy.do
Much happier.
It also has an API and MCP, so @AmpCode can interact with tasks too.
Thanks @dhh + @jasonfried + team
Adam Sellke retweeted
We have been here for 5 years, and we are not going anywhere but forward.
With:
The most mature privacy preserving DeFi suite in web3 @Shade_Protocol
The worlds only fully non custodial, trustless, and decentralized privacy preserving crosschain DEX aggregator @silentswap
Yup. I'm on the waitlist for @perplexity_ai's new agentic browser, Comet: perplexity.ai/comet
Adam Sellke retweeted
When SILK was envisioned, private stablecoins were rare and lacked real utility or interoperability.
@Shade_Protocol changed that by building an integrated, private DeFi layer from the ground up.
The result? A stablecoin with purpose, aligned utility, and cross-chain potential.
Adam Sellke retweeted
The Shade team continues to deliver.
This gas optimization upgrade is more than a performance boost. It's a clear commitment to scalability, efficiency, and better UX.
Props to Carter and everyone at @Shade_Protocol for pushing things forward.
teapawt.net/l_woetzel/status/19217…
Quick info on the ShadeSwap gas upgrade that was (casually) shipped last week⤵️
⛽️ We reduced smart contract gas costs by 30-50% depending on the swap 🔥
✅ Expanded # of swap txs in a single block
✅ Optimized front end gas predictions = lower costs + more successful transactions
Transactions are now smoother, more scalable, and more enjoyable. While gas costs have been "cheap" due to a low SCRT price, our team has conviction on optimizing and preparing for the future so that as many users of various size can call the Shade app home.
While many projects have withered away, the Shade team continues to SHIP⛴️
1% better every day compounds. $SHD $SILK
So cool.
Adam Sellke retweeted
The two most important things in the world from here is no longer what school you went to or what your resume looks like
It is the amount of **agency** you bring to the table, and the **taste** you have that lets you get the most out of AI
Agency (prompting) and taste (evals)
NEW: Replit founding data scientist and engineer @giansegato: “I’ve begun to see product managers developing business financial models; designers writing commercial ads; barbershops building custom booking systems; and restaurant owners creating advanced pricing tools... These people always had it in them to do these things. The key difference is that it no longer takes years to learn how.”
Gian’s in Pirate Wires today with a piece on the "unraveling of credentialism" — and how having an edge in the market is no longer about knowing how to do one specific thing very well, but about being biased toward making it happen. Link threaded 👇
