X Goes Open Source (Again)
PLUS: Distribution won't save your startup
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social media
X will open source its entire recommendation algorithm every four weeks with full developer notes on what changed.
marketing
Having 100k followers or a huge email list won't save a bad product. Celebrities with distribution fail all the time.
social media
Nikita Bier says fewer, better replies beat endless noise. Make conversations expand ideas, not reduce them.
product management
Planning everything upfront and feeding specs to an LLM is just waterfall with new tools. Validate the risky parts first.
artificial intelligence
Reid Hoffman says Opus 4.5 isn't just more compute. Scale alone doesn't explain why frontier models suddenly leap forward.
entrepreneurship
Self employment has crashed from 18.5% to 6.3% since the 1950s. Entrepreneurship needs a comeback.