Hiten Shah

Everyone's worried about training AI. The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work. What do you even teach them?

The hardest part of leadership is holding the line when everything around you pressures you to lower it. Your standards create the environment long before your words do.

These posters were stuck on Facebook’s office walls. They described how decisions got made when things were working. Something went out before it felt ready. Users reacted. That reaction mattered ...

For most of history, progress was constrained by execution. Tools were slow. Information moved slowly. Doing the work was the hard part. That constraint is gone. Now the bottleneck is judgment.

If you know AI can already do a part of your job, you should be the one taking advantage of that. Aggressively. If you're waiting for permission, someone else isn't. Here's what happens when you w...

We're building systems that need babysitters. People think agents are smarter chatbots. Ask a question, get an answer, move on. Background agents are different. They check your email while you sl...

Reality always collects. You can delay contact with it. Decks and narratives. Optimism that feels like strategy. But you cannot avoid it. The bill shows up eventually. Churn. Missed hires. Prici...

Ask a founder what the job is. They'll talk about product, maybe fundraising. The real job never comes up. The job is reducing the gap between reality and response. Signals arrive constantly. A c...

Just because it works for them, doesn't mean it will work for you. We often see competitors executing a strategy effortlessly, whether it’s a specific marketing channel, a pricing model, or a new ...

A friend has been building a Mac desktop app for months. You can tell it wasn’t assembled in a weekend. I can’t talk about it publicly yet. If you DM me, I’ll tell you what it is and get you access.

Today's Operator Links: https://lnkd.in/gja_pHGd 1️⃣ What Actually Changes in 2026 - Shubham Bose 2️⃣ The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Clawdbot - Joe Seifi 3️⃣ What Would Marx Say Today? - Matthe...

Today's Operator Links: https://lnkd.in/gub5e_W3 1️⃣ Why Ramp Won - Sri Batchu 2️⃣ AI Made Management Visible - Ethan Mollick 3️⃣ Software Pump and Dump - Tautvilas Mecinskas 4️⃣ Why Intellige...

I wrote this after talking to a bunch of teams about competitors. Everyone had good intel. Almost none of it changed what they were actually doing.

You’ve probably been in this sales demo meeting. Everyone agrees the thing is good. The questions are thoughtful. The concerns are reasonable. Someone says, "This makes sense." The call wraps. ...

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