Nika

In the last week, I was restricted twice on LinkedIn (where I have a community of more than 8k+ people) (the first time for 48 hours, the second time for 72 hours).

I supposedly automate no, I don t.

The builder internet has one dominant religion: ship fast, learn fast, iterate. And honestly? It's mostly right. I'm not here to argue against iteration.

But I've been noticing a pattern in products that actually lasted and it's uncomfortable: A lot of them were embarrassingly slow at the start. Not because the founders were lazy but because they were obsessive about the wrong thing to ship first.

Figma spent years just making the multiplayer cursor work flawlessly before talking about anything else. Notion had a tiny, nearly unusable v1 that they kept showing the same 500 people. Linear said no to mobile for two years while everyone said they were crazy.

Yesterday, a report circulated on X-com about how an Australian entrepreneur used data and AI to design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch.

So what does this mean for us?