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ChatGPT Saved My Life (No, Seriously, I’m Writing this from the ER)

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The Paradigm Shift of the Modern-Day DeveloperLearning how to build software and apps without being a “classically trained engineer” has been the single-greatest paradigm shift of my career. It’s what makes me excited, curious, and motivated for what comes next in the AI age. And it’s why I’ve been intentionally setting out to identify emergent builders in the AI age (and teach them how to build ,too). After all, if people like me — who have never before been able to contribute to the technic...

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My office, remixed as a digital expressionist style (via NanoBanana, by way of Flux)They say you can do a lot these days as a one-person company.You can build one little app that’s used by millions. Turn zero into a billion. Automate anything. Change the world, program the next thing agentically, all while you still manage to cook dinner for your kids, get a full eight hours’ of sleep, and look fabulous on Instagram Reels the next morning. That’s right, ladies. These days you can do it all, w...

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Offsites for One

For the past five years, I’ve hosted annual planning offsites for myself. The goal is simple: Get anchored in my personal and professional goals and set a clear intention for the year ahead. If you run your own business or are thinking about doing so anytime soon, I strongly recommend doing this. It’s so important to find a way to get yourself out of your day-to-day and see what kinds of things you think about and care about and write about when it’s just you. While I’ve been doing this for s...

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For the past five years, I’ve hosted annual planning offsites for myself. The goal is simple: Get anchored in my personal and professional goals and set a clear intention for the year ahead. If you run your own business or are thinking about doing so anytime soon, I strongly recommend doing this. It’s so important to find a way to get yourself out of your day-to-day and see what kinds of things you think about and care about and write about when it’s just you. While I’ve been doing this for s...

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The Bystander Effect

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This is part two of a three-part essay series, Female Founder Mode, where I share observations and insights about my first year as a founder. In part one (which you can read here), I wrote about how the power of AI no-code technology upends the norms of the tech industry, making way for a new type of builder. In this part, I’ll share why it’s more possible now build horizontally across many parts of our lives all at once.The Polyphonic Career: An infographic by NotebookLMHow Parenting Rewired...

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Block-Based Founder Schedules

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The New Norm: Rethinking Workspaces for the AI Era

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The Broken Traditional Office SetupYesterday on LinkedIn I shared a post expressing how I’ve reached the limit of my time working largely solo in a tiny shoebox office, and I’m looking for what’s next.I shared some of my paradoxical challenges in my current situation:As a creator, I need a private space and room to make things, play my own music, and be loud on calls when I need toAs a collaborator, I need space for people to roll up their sleeves, whiteboard some ideas, and sit next to me an...

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Big Tech’s Big DisplacementLast week, Amazon announced the latest in a series of massive tech layoffs with 30,000 people displaced overnight. The month before, Axios reported on a Senate Democrats report that concluded that up to 100 million jobs could be erased due to AI in the next decade. 100 million jobs. It’s clear that the workforce in 5 or 10 years will look dramatically different from how it looks today. And unfortunately, layoffs are part one of this transition. While I haven’t been ...

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IntroFor most of my career, I’ve had the privilege worked among the giants of the tech industry, helping their big ideas take shape and scale. Over the years, I got really good at taking just the tiniest kernel of something fresh and blowing it up into something real. I perfected this craft as a fractional operator, where I moved between startups, venture firms, nonprofits, and even crypto foundations, adding fuel to other people’s visions from the inside out. Along the way, I always quietly ...

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The Unfinished Circuit“Mom…! Help me make my circuit.” I look across the table at my 5-year-old’s unfinished after-school project. “Uhhh…looks pretty good to me,” I mumble feebly. “But it’s not done! The light is supposed to turn on, see?” she demonstrates, holding the LED close to the cables. “This one is the hot wire,” she explains, pointing out the red wire. “This black one is the neutral wire. Come on, let’s build!”I’ll admit it, I’m impressed. Her knowledge of proper circuitry terms has ...