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Naval Ravikant: “The future will be almost all startups” “I firmly believe that the efficient size of a company is shrinking very rapidly, and so the future will be almost all startups.” In the clip below from a 2012 interview, Naval speculates that information technology will reverse the centralizing force of economies of scale following the Industrial Revolution. “I think the contract work trend is going to increase, and I think the size of your average company is going to decrease. I think we’re going to see more and more billion dollar businesses built by four or five people, and it’ll stay at that.” He doesn’t think we’ll see many more companies like Facebook or Google with tens of thousands of employees: “I think any entrepreneur worth their salt could today build Facebook with a few hundred people… Facebook and Google are in the situation that large companies end up in where the founders know that 80% of the people are not really needed, they just don’t know which 80%.”
Because of LLMs, the only type of people I’d hire now are what I’d call “super-unicorns” - Developer - Designer (or great design taste) - Product-focused (vs feature-focused) - Marketer - Agent expert - High emotional intelligence - 5+ years experience creating web app products - Extreme ownership (h/t @jockowillink) There are very few folks with all these traits … but I just wouldn’t want to work with someone who didn’t have all these skills/behaviors. This will keep team sizes very small. 2026 is going to be very interesting for the whole industry.
I think we're hitting a point where mobile coding actually makes sense for production-grade systems. This developer runs 6 Claude Code agents in parallel from his phone. No laptop, just a $7/day VM and push notifications when Claude needs input Instead of long periods of intense focus, software development can now just fit into the gaps of your day.
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Weft. I wanted a personal board where agents could pick up some of my daily tasks. Think Trello, but agents do your tasks for you. Agents can connect to Gmail, Docs, GitHub, or any MCP server. All tasks have access to a Sandbox with Claude Code. Built on @CloudflareDev
I'm hiring! For a pretty fun job, if you ask me. Talk to some of the most interesting teams and companies across the globe, understand what they do, then explain this to fellow software engineers. Full-remote, flexible €150+/$175+ per hour Details: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/tech-industry-analyst-2026/…
This guide will walk through running Claude Code on your phone in under 5 minutes and 500 words. To get started, you'll need: • An Anthropic subscription or API key • A Replit account It's easiest to start on your laptop. First, head to this template and click Remix Matt's Claude template You'll see a prompt that secrets are missing in the bottom right, click it and you'll be taken to the Secrets pane. Paste in `/home/runner/workspace/.claude-user` (no quotes) as the value for CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR - don't forget to click "Add Secret" Now, click the plus icon next to the "Secrets" tab and search for "Shell" Search for the shell in tools Open the Shell and type in "claude" - voila! Claude Code is running Login with Anthropic - do not authorize at the clicked link, instead copy / paste the URL Follow the authorization prompts, when a new window is opened and you're prompted to authorize, do not - instead, go back to the terminal and there will be a URL. Copy / paste the URL, get the resulting code, and paste that in your terminal Now the fun part. Install the Replit mobile app on your phone. Open it up and sign in. You will see your app from before - select it. Click the "three rectangles" icon in the bottom right to open the tools Search for "Shell" - tap it! Now that you're logged in, we can open your phone! Tap the Shell selector in the top left - you'll see our "claude" command from before Open the shell on mobile Boom! Claude Code is running on your phone... You might notice it's sync with the version on your desktop! (more on that below) Claude on mobile! From here on out, you can simply open up the Shell in the app on your phone and type "claude" to run Claude Code. IMPORTANT: this app has your credentials in the `.claude-user` directory. It will be ignored by git, but you should not share this app with anyone or make it public without first deleting that directory What we just did: • We created a "sandbox:" every Replit app is it's own isolated environment, running in the cloud. You might also hear this called a container or a virtual environment. • Replit apps allow you to write and execute code, we normally do that with our own agent - Replit Agent. You can see it on the left hand side of the app. • Claude Code was already configured in this template, so you started the package in our Shell, which is just a terminal • Authorizing Claude wrote credentials to the `.claude-user` directory, which is necessary to persist through Replit environment restarts. • Opening Replit on your phone loaded the same virtual environment as the one running on your laptop. That's because the environment is running on a remote server in the cloud. • Replit can display the same environment in real time on multiple devices, what we call "multiplayer" - this is thanks to some amazing engineering by the team. • Now, you can control Claude from both your phone & your computer. The same is true of Replit Agent and any other project on Replit. You can follow the same process in any Replit app that has Claude Code installed, which may be done from the command line. You can also install Skills, plugins, MCP servers, and Hooks as you would normally. Happy building ✌️
How is AI changing work inside Anthropic? And what might this tell us about the effects on the wider labor force to come? We surveyed 132 of our engineers, conducted 53 in-depth interviews, and analyzed 200K internal Claude Code sessions to find out.
How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic
This is happening mad fast! I started to realize this when moving all my workflows to Claude Code Skills. Painful at first, but then suddenly moving at speeds never imaginable. I hear more companies embracing skills, which accelerate things more. Good read!
Some U.S. tech firms are beginning to recruit for so-called “996” roles—an intense work schedule borrowed from China’s startup culture that runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week, per Forbes.
I grew up on the internet, and I love it, but something broke in me during the COVID era and its aftermath. I worked remotely in the crypto industry for 5 years, spent all my spare time on Twitter, and got stuck in a doom loop of e-addiction that I couldn’t unplug from. It fried my brain. So, I took a break this year to reset and reckon with my relationship to the world wide web (and to tech in general), and this post is a set of notes to share how I’m currently thinking about the internet and how to stay mostly sane while juggling the pros and cons of being online. - Let’s start with the obvious, which is that humans are more online than ever before. I could point to statistics, but I think this is intuitive. - The main distinction I see in my life from before and after COVID is that at some point the internet stopped being a tool I used every day and instead my online-ness became a default state of being. I was always on. - It’s become obvious to me that we’re not built to live terminally online lives. We’re not built to fill every gap in our day by doomscrolling, checking messages, and generally consuming global information streams at the speed of light. It’s sensory overload. - Being so online has implications for our personal lives. Common side effects include increased anxiety, depression, envy, and insecurity. That, along with shrinking attention spans and disrupted sleep. - Being so online has implications for wider culture as well. People are becoming more average over time because we’re all consuming the same content curated for us by TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and so on. This is often talked about as “algorithmic flattening,” and what that means is when we all consume the same inputs, we create similar outputs whether that’s in the form of art, startups, research, or even thoughts. We're all losing our floofy spiky uniqueness and being eroded into a standard shape, which crushes originality and creativity at a societal scale. - Anyone who is very online understands these issues in a visceral way. We see it in our lives, and we know that being hyper online has some problematic secondary effects... and yet, so many of us have given up trying to set boundaries. We make excuses. I make excuses. “Oh, it’s just an hour and I deserve this time to scroll” or “Oh, the whole world is moving more online anyway so why bother trying to swim against the current?” - The reality is most of us are addicts. I understand this is uncomfortable language, but so many people have been completely defeated by the dopamine engineering of casino capitalism. Together, we’re willingly dripping poison into our lives instead of reckoning with our individual choices and the systems that we live in. We are, as Neil Postman said back in the 1980s, amusing ourselves to death. - This is not meant to be a drive-by guilting. And yes, in part, I’m talking to myself because I’m easily among the worst offenders in this category: I’ve done everything wrong and I lived in a dystopia of being plugged into endless, multi-screen slop at 2x speed for years. The reason why I’m writing this is I realized that I need to wake up and get my head in the game before my life is vaporized into a puddle of infinite digital regret, and I can’t imagine that I’m alone. I keep asking myself, “Don’t I want more than this? Isn’t life supposed to be more than this?” - Ok that was the worst of this crash out. Deep breath. All is not lost. - I concede that the internet is fun, funny, and a great place to learn. I concede that the internet is a magical tool for connection. I’ve made many of my closest friends online. I concede that the internet is an abundant place to find opportunity. Every job I’ve ever had as an adult is a result of having an online presence. - I think the supermajority of people would agree that there are a lot of great things about the internet, so what am I saying here? - I’m not saying that people should log off forever. In modern times that’s not even possible, and plus I like being online. I would never want to disappear completely. The question I’m wrestling with is, what’s the line? How much of the internet do we use and when do we say, that’s enough? - I’m not in the business of prescribing particular answers. A mentor once told me that most areas of life are morally neutral in the general sense, but that doesn’t mean they’re morally neutral for YOU specifically. For example, maybe one person can drink alcohol no problem, but another person can’t because they have an addictive personality. So, for internet stuff the question of what to use and what not to use (and in what measure, and when) is personal. We have to make those decisions ourselves. - That said, I think the through line is everyone would benefit from being more intentional with their relationship to the online world. - Some different practices that I've found helpful are limiting my attention to one social network, reducing complexity on my phone, and only doom scrolling and checking messages a few times per day. That, and a digital sabbath: one full day of no technology per week. Also, I do as much work on paper now as I can. - If you want to think more deeply about what good digital hygiene could look like for you then check out Cal Newport’s writing, Jenny Odell’s book, and the Center for Humane Technology. If you’re more philosophically inclined, then Sherry Turkle and Wendell Berry are worth reading as well. - For what it’s worth, I’m hopeful. I feel confident that I can claim my life back from being perma-online while still enjoying my favorite corners of the internet. I also think culture is shifting and pushing back against the default online-is-always-good position, which is encouraging. - One thing I am haunted by though is how much internet addiction is a system problem vs. an individual responsibility problem. - Let me give you an anecdote from another industry to help make this point. In the early 2000s, British Petroleum popularized the phrase "carbon footprint" as a way to individualize responsibility for carbon emissions and shift attention away from the largest corporate actors. It was a very effective propaganda campaign, and today when it comes to climate issues many people think about their personal carbon footprint vs. regulating the world’s largest emitters. - The question this brings up for wicked problems like climate change, internet addiction, or otherwise is... to what extent are people responsible for solving issues on their own vs. to what extent are large actors responsible for making changes (usually via regulation)? - The only answer I have is: probably some of both? I don’t mean to make this post too political, but the more I think about the modern internet and it's impact on society, the more I wonder what regulating aspects of it might look like. - I know people panic when reading commentary about regulation because how dare you take away muh freedom, but I think Isaiah Berlin’s distinction of “freedom from” vs. “freedom to” is relevant here. Shouldn’t people, if they so choose, also be free from algorithms that have been optimized by the smartest people in the world to suck them in and siphon their attention? - At a minimum, I think everyone can agree that Big Tech is big business. We know the internet is not a neutral place and that algorithms are not neutral. This has implications across business, politics, education and more but those conversations are beyond the scope of this post (and mostly above my pay grade). - Alright back to some positive thoughts. - I do think individual choice is very powerful. - I would encourage everyone that read this far to explore what having a healthier relationship with the internet could look like. I know doing work on this has been worthwhile for me. - When trying to make changes in my life something I’ve noticed is that carrots are stronger than sticks, and by that, I mean spending time on activities that I’m excited about seems to be a better counterweight to overusing the internet than trying to force arbitrary limits on myself. I think humans are more driven by incentives than deterrents, so maybe the answer for all of us is simply that we need to fall in love with real life again. That’s what I want. - I realize a lot of what I’ve talked about can feel overwhelming, and it’s difficult sometimes to know where to start, so what I’ll say as I wrap up is this doesn’t have to be that deep. Stuff as simple as not having your phone in your room overnight or making sure to eat breakfast before logging on can be incredibly helpful. Small changes can have meaningful impacts.
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2025 as a solopreneur: - $2.834M+ in revenue - Operated at ~91% margins - Sunset my 2 top products - 134K new followers on LinkedIn - 45K new followers on 𝕏 - Traveled domestically 12x - Traveled internationally 8x - Threw 7 small masterminds - Exercised 348 days - Walked 2,460 miles & 6.15M steps - Lost 8 pounds - Took my wife to lunch 60x - Visited 10+ breweries - Lived abroad for 60 days - Flew our parents on vacation first class Life came first, business supported it.
The idea that you have to be in SF to build a world-class AI company is BS. One of the best companies I have invested in is Solve Intelligence, AI for patents. $1M-$12M (ARR graph below) with some of the biggest blue-chip law firms in the world, all in 12 months. Team is one of the best, most cracked teams in tech. No chest pumping on social, no BS, just execution machines. Europe and London can build mega companies. This is our time. LFG.
