mijustin

Agreed! I get inspired just by seeing him talk through his approach to design problems.

Yes! And having too much of one in a given week (meetings vs. online chat) can throw off the balance too, especially for remote teams.

I also think there’s a benefit to being in-person depending on your age and career stage. Young people gain a lot from being around other humans. So much gets learned just by being in the room: how people talk to each other, how decisions actually get made, what good work looks like up close. You miss out on all that stuff in Slack.

100%

(Author of the post here) I think the key point is that even bad businesses take time and effort to create!

The distinction is between "low-hanging fruit" ideas ("Let's start a cafe!" "Let's start a WordPress theme business") and "high-value, high effort" ideas ("It's 2003. Let's build VoIP software.").

What’s changed now, with AI, is that you can have compressed learning cycles. Folks can build, deploy, and learn faster now than ever before.

Admitting when you don’t know something has always been important; but the ability to build, deploy, and find out has never been greater.

Instead of theorizing about what might work, you can just build it and find out.

I definitely think teams will be getting smaller, and will become even more outcome oriented.

100%. There are tons of vulnerabilities in JavaScript that are happily patched.

XSLT has a ton of value, especially if we want a more diverse/robust web.

Lots of kids still making games with engines like GameMaker Studio!

I think lots of kids will start playing around with Claude Code in this way as well.