1. The access collection black hole You need Figma access, Google Analytics, WordPress admin, GitHub, and the client's Slack. You ask. They forward a password email from two years ago. You ask again. Their developer says they'll get back to you. Three days pass. The fix: Send a single, complete access list on Day 1 — not "we'll need some access" but the exact list, with specifics for each tool,
We debate endlessly about whether AI will ever achieve consciousness, but we forget how consciousness actually compiled in the first place. It wasn’t spawned in a vacuum; it was forged by the brutal necessity of survival. For millions of iterations over millions of years, early cognition was nothing but pure instinct and bloodlust—refined only by the fight for the right to exist. Humanity is not
FutureMe has 15 million letters in its database. They've been there since 2002. Some of them will be there in 2050. Evengood will have zero. This week I shipped The Quiet Letter — a feature where you write to your future self today, we email it on a date you pick, and we hard-delete the row from our database within 24 hours of sending it. The email is the only artifact. We don't keep a copy. Every