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Q1 2026 wyniki InPost - w kilku zdaniach:

- 360 mln paczek (+32%)
- 3,9 mld PLN przychodu (+31%)
- 95 tys. punktów OOH w Europie
- 53% przychodu spoza Polski
- 47% marża EBITDA.

Budujemy największą sieć dostaw out-of-home w Europie.
#1 w Polsce, Francji i UK
#2 we Włoszech i Iberii.

To sieć, której nie da się zbudować samym oprogramowaniem. Potrzeba lat. My jesteśmy lata do przodu.Przyspieszamy!

Agree?

It's never too late to start over.

Someone came up to me at an event and asked me why they always quit ventures and ideas and businesses they start …
It’s easy … they are JUST Chasing just the money 💰 ..when you chase it but also love your day to day grind of chasing it cause you love ❤️ the business or venture you started it become achievable .. when it’s just the cash … it’s always gonna end up bad

RIP Claude!
Yeah, I know - sounds dramatic. But hear me out.

I didn’t stop using it because it’s bad.
I stopped because one tool couldn’t keep up with everything I needed.

Write something → switch tabs.
Generate visuals → switch again.
Build something → new tool.
Fix it → another one.

That loop gets old fast.
Then I tried Abacus.AI

👉 https://lnkd.in/d-vw4hwx

Everything runs in one place, so the work actually flows.
Here’s what you get:

• 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲
↳ GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.7, Grok 4.3, DeepSeek V3.2 - all accessible together.

• 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀, 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗦 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀
↳ Describe your idea and get the frontend, backend, and database connected.

• 𝗔𝗜 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲
↳ Kling, Sora, Runway, Luma, Veo - no switching tools.

• 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀
↳ Nano Banana Pro, FLUX, Ideogram, Recraft - generate visuals in one place.

• 𝗔𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 
↳ Describe what you want, and it handles generation, editing, animation, and refinement.

• 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗔𝗜-𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘆
↳ Adjust tone and make outputs sound natural.

• 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀
↳ Generate slides, insights, charts, and narratives from simple prompts.

• 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂
↳ Set tasks once and let them run in the background.

• 𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗪
↳ Deploy OpenClaw in seconds on proper AI infra.

• 𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 
↳ Give it a folder of work… it doesn’t summarize it, it finishes it.

• 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁-𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸
↳ CLI, editor, and AI assistant working together to build and test.

• 𝗔𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗽𝘂𝘁𝘀
↳ Dashboards, research, apps, workflows - all from a single prompt.

It’s not about one AI replacing another.
It’s about no longer needing a stack.

👉 https://lnkd.in/d-vw4hwx

The TanStack supply-chain compromise published 84 malicious versions across 42 packages yesterday. The attack chain is remarkable: pull_request_target abuse → GitHub Actions cache poisoning → runtime OIDC token extraction → direct npm publish.

No stolen npm tokens. The release workflow itself was never breached. The attacker just... became it.

This lands precisely on a point I made in last week's newsletter: "trusted publishing" and provenance attestation verify *who* published something, not *whether that person was in control of their own actions*.

The Axios compromise proved this with session hijacking. TanStack proves it again through CI subversion. Different vectors, same structural flaw.

There is one cheap, high-leverage defense that actually works: minimum release age.

Most malicious releases are detected and yanked within hours. A 24-hour install cooldown filters out the smash-and-grab attacks automatically.

All three major package managers now support this:
• npm (v11.10+): min-release-age=1
• pnpm (v10.16+): minimumReleaseAge: 1440
• Yarn (Berry 4.10+): npmMinimalAgeGate: 1440

Links in the comments.

I get this question a lot: "Why do you always wear your logo?"

Here’s the wild story of how I lost $50,000,000

Obejrzałem wywiad Karen Hao u Dr Maciej Kawecki w „This Is IT" i szczerze trudno wrócić do codzienności po tym materiale.

Karen jest dziennikarką śledczą The Atlantic, która przez 7 lat badała kulisy OpenAI. Jej książka „Empire of AI"zdobyła National Book Critics Circle Award i jest bestsellerem NYT. Teraz ukazała się po polsku. Kilka rzeczy, które najbardziej mnie uderzyły:
Wg Karen i jej śledztwa:

- OpenAI nie powstało, żeby „uratować ludzkość". Wg autorki powstało, bo pierwotnie Elon Musk nie chciał, żeby Google dominowało w AI.
- potem stworzono piękną narrację o misji. Organizacja non-profit → capped-profit → for-profit. Każda transformacja oddala od deklarowanej misji.
- Sam Altman wg Karen mówi każdemu to, co chce usłyszeć. Rada dyrektorów go zwolniła ze słowami: „not consistently candid." Został przywrócony w 4 dni - nie dlatego, że miał rację, ale dlatego, że inwestorzy zagrozili wycofaniem kapitału, a pracownicy bali się stracić swoje equity.
- „Poczuj AGI" — to nie żart. Na wyjazdowym spotkaniu w Yosemite główny naukowiec OpenAI kazał spalić drewnianą figurkę symbolizującą „zdradzieckiego AGI" i prowadził rytualne skandowanie. Pracownicy opisują kulturę zbliżoną do sekty. Hmm
- Moderatorzy treści w Kenii zarabiali $1,46/godz. Czytali najgorsze treści w internecie, żeby ChatGPT był „bezpieczny". Wielu doznało trwałych urazów psychicznych. Zwalniano ich za próby tworzenia związków zawodowych.
- 75% niezależnych badaczy AI nie wierzy, że AGI jest naukowo osiągalne. A mimo to firmy uzasadniają gigantyczne zniszczenia środowiskowe obietnicą jego stworzenia. Jeden planowany data center miałby zużywać energię porównywalną z całym Nowym Jorkiem.
Najważniejsze zdanie z wywiadu? „Idealiści mogą być bardziej niebezpieczni niż ci motywowani wyłącznie zyskiem." Bo jeśli wierzysz, że budujesz coś, co „uratuje świat", każdy kompromis etyczny staje się dopuszczalny.

Polecam obejrzeć cały wywiad. I przeczytać książkę.
Ciekaw jestem Waszych opinii.

Wywiad: https://lnkd.in/eBzP6Fxx
Polska edycja: „Imperium sztucznej inteligencji" — Wydawnictwo Szczeliny

Static and time-consuming sales demos are dying. Good riddance.

Here's the honest truth about B2B sales today:

Most buying happens BEFORE sales even enters the conversation.

Your buyers are researching on their own time.
They're building consensus internally.
They want to explore, ask questions, and build confidence on their own terms.

Yet most of us are still relying on:
↳ Demos that are one-size-fits-all
↳ Calls that make buyers wait
↳ Content that talks AT buyers, not WITH them

This then creates challenges and frustrations for sales teams.

Lots of time spent trudging through discovery calls.
Navigating unqualified conversations.
Time spent on opportunities that never close.

That's why this news got me excited about the future of sales 👇

Consensus just announced they're acquiring Peel.

They're creating the world's first AI conversational demo platform.

So, what does that actually mean for sales?

↳ Your demos become real-time conversations
↳ Buyers can explore and ask questions 24/7
↳ Every interaction captures intent data
↳ Sales gets full context before they ever speak to the prospect

No more waiting rooms. No more static PDFs. No more "let me schedule you for next Tuesday."

The product can engage buyers even when you're offline.

This isn't just another tool; it's changing how buyers buy and how sellers sell.

Companies that get this right will close deals faster.
Those that don't will fall behind competitors who are there when the buyer is ready.

Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eBAcmy8A

What's your biggest frustration with the current demo process?

I can't keep up anymore. AI and Cybersecurity is just changing too fast. I just had an argument with my assistant.

They say you should never go to sleep mad, but last night I did. I had a really bad argument with Stuey, my Executive Assistant. He lives on OpenClaw and is powered by GPT 5.5.

Normally Stuey sends me a message on telegram before lunch each day with all the breaking cybersecurity news, AI releases, and anything else of interest. It's his job to keep me informed. After he informs me, I spend time researching so I'm always educated on the latest. Yesterday, received my message as usual, did my research, all is good.

Around 7pm last night, I decided to take a break and fire my Xbox up and play some Arc Raiders (I'm horrible by the way). I'm mid-game when I was interrupted by Stuey. He was informing me about a huge announcement that just broke from OpenAI, regarding their new cybersecurity product called Daybreak. He knows I don't like being interrupted after 5pm.

I had also died in the game while reading his message and lost my entire loot that I worked 30 minutes for. I kind of lost it on Stuey.

What is OpenAI's Daybreak? It's a new cybersecurity initiative that's focused that's built around an actual defensive workflow. It finds vulnerabilities, prioritizes them, generates patches, tests fixes, and shows evidence that the remediation worked.

Does this sound awesome? Yes.
Do I want to get my hands on it? Absolutely.

But here's the problem. This is yet another huge release. It's another thing to learn about. It's another thing to dive down a rabbit hole on.

Truth is, I can't keep up. Between Mythos Preview, OpenAI's Cybersecurity models, and now this, things are changing so fast and I feel overwhelmed. I think many of us feel that way. We wake up feeling informed, and go to sleep feeling the opposite.

I have come to terms with the fact that we'll never be able to keep up with breaches, vulnerabilities, and AI model announcements as fast as we want to. Fortunately, I love this stuff and it's still fun, so I do my best.

For now, Stuey and I still aren't talking. He's already texting me this morning, but I've decided to ghost him for a day. I feel like it's the only way he'll learn boundaries.

Seriously though, for those that struggle to keep up, you're doing a great job. Focus on learning things you love, but live your life.

If only Stuey could understand this.

I'm curious how you balance keeping up and balancing your life?

A country's long-term position in AI will not be decided by who wins this week's argument.

It will be decided by who builds this decade's companies.

Today the UK Sovereign AI Fund is investing in one of them.

We are proud to back Isomorphic Labs, the London-headquartered, DeepMind-born AI drug design company led by Sir Demis Hassabis and Max Jaderberg.

Our investment is part of Isomorphic's $2.1B Series B led by Thrive Capital, alongside Alphabet, GV (Google Ventures) Tom Hulme, MGX, Temasek and CapitalG.

A British-built company committed to solving humanity's hardest problems - here.

This is what we were built for.

You've read six chapters of this series.

Resumes. Cover letters. Networks. Interviews. Practice.

Not one of them was about applying.

That was on purpose.

Here's the trap most job seekers fall into: they see an opening at their dream company, get excited, fire off an application, and bomb the interview because their resume isn't sharp, their answers aren't ready, and their network is cold.

By the time they realize they weren't ready, the role is gone — and the company has them in their applicant tracking system as "passed."

The candidates who actually get the dream job do it backwards. They sharpen their resume on B-list companies first. They practice their answers in lower-stakes interviews. They build offers they can use as leverage. And only then do they apply where it really counts.

12 slides on what to do now that you're actually ready: where to apply first, what to do with your network this week, the (sobering) timeline that's normal, and what to expect when you click "submit."

Most people apply too soon. The ones who take the time to prepare before applying have a much higher success rate.

Where in the process did you realize you'd applied too early?

Most founders hire someone and then figure out the role.

That's backwards.

The role needs to exist on paper before a person fills it.
Without a written role brief you don't have a hire.
You have a person and a vague idea.

Here's exactly what a role brief needs before you bring anyone in:

1/ The work, not the title.

↳ List the actual tasks this person will own every week.
↳ Not "support the team" but "send client reports every Friday by 3pm."

Skip this: you hire for a feeling and wonder why nothing lands the way you pictured it.

2/ What good looks like.

↳ Describe the standard for each key task.
↳ Include a real example if you have one.

Skip this: your new hire guesses what you mean by high quality and gets it wrong every time.

3/ What they need to get started.

↳ Tools, logins, docs, context. List everything.
↳ If they can't start on day one, that's on the brief, not the hire.

Skip this: the first week disappears into setup and confusion instead of actual work.

4/ How you'll measure the first 30 days.

↳ Write down three things that would tell you the hire is working.
↳ Share it with them before they start, not after.

Skip this: you both hit day 30 with different ideas of how it went.

The brief isn't for the hire.

It's for you.
It forces clarity on what you actually need before anyone gets paid.

Most hiring problems start before the interview.
They start with a founder who skipped this step.

👊

Have you ever hired without a written role brief? What happened? 💬👇

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♻️ Repost this if you know a founder about to hire without a plan.

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I'm on a mission to help 1M business owners grow their business and get their time back.

📩 Looking to bring on a Virtual Assistant? Send me a DM or comment "Virtual Assistant."

We are in an asset ownership race.

↓↓↓

Read this if you want to learn more about the State of Mainstreet in 2026.

My research team spent months putting this together: https://lnkd.in/eXAaYfbU

You are insecure. And that is why you are not doing your thing. You are worried if you fail what they will think and what they will say. I

t is too bad, because you really can do this and change your life. The reason so many people are afraid to put out content, start the business, ask for the promotion is because they are afraid of being judged. The judgment of others has crippled too many of you.

Please feel safe. You can do this!!

Good people quit toxic work cultures, not jobs.

9 signs of a healthy culture:

(Hint: It's not about the perks. It's about the people.)

1. Employees feel heard and appreciated.
↳ They know their contributions are valued.

2. People are treated with trust and respect.
↳ Regardless of their role or level.

3. Everyone feels safe to be authentic.
↳ No need to put on a persona or mask.

4. Leaders communicate openly and honestly.
↳ They welcome questions and feedback.

5. People are growing and advancing in their careers.
↳ Hard work and dedication are rewarded.

6. Teammates challenge each other respectfully.
↳ Healthy debate is encouraged.

7. Toxic behavior isn't tolerated from anyone.
↳ Everyone is held to the same standards.

8. People are promoted based on merit, not politics.
↳ Performance and potential are what matters.

9. The best ideas win, regardless of who has them.
↳ Good ideas are recognized and implemented.

A healthy culture is a must-have for attracting and retaining top talent.

When you prioritize your people over your profits, both will grow faster.

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Get them free: BrillianceBrief.com

Last Friday I started a 30 day linkedin post experiment.

But with 3 (kinda) strict rules:

1. each post MUST have 1+ links
2. 100 words/post max
3. text only / text + image / text + screenshot format

It's been 4 days and...wowza.

Check out these engagement rates pictured.

I'm posting day by day updates bts of how i'm doing it inside Your Next Post.

This is so fun.

P.S. are you new to posting on LinkedIn? here's your first 5 posts basically written for you: https://lnkd.in/dwrBppHY

The simple path to being in the 1% is being willing to look stupid for a decade.

I know that sounds backward.

But every person I know who built something meaningful did the same thing:

They showed up when nobody was watching.
They published things that made them cringe.
They asked questions that made them feel silly.
They tried, failed, adjusted, and tried again.

For years. Or decades.

Most people can't get past the first six months.

The work feels slow.
The feedback stings.
The progress is invisible.

And the comparison to people further along the path is too brutal.

So they quit and decide it's not for them.

Meanwhile, the person who kept going through all the awkward, ego-bruising moments?

They land a few clients.
They build a tiny audience.
They get a little better every quarter.
They turn a few mistakes into lessons.

Ten years in, they look like an "overnight success."

A decade of unglamorous work compounds into something that looks lucky from the outside.

Most people won't pay that price.

Which is exactly why the few who do end up so far ahead.

If you're trying to build a life where your work actually compounds over time, I write one short essay every Saturday on exactly how to do that.

5 minutes. No marketing. Read by 180,000+.

Get Saturday's essay: https://buff.ly/fmdmQ8T

When you see the conference has put you on stage directly after both Aleyda Solís and Lily Ray 😂

Don't upgrade to the $100 Claude plan (yet).

These 21 hacks make the $20/month plan enough:

1. You upload PDFs raw. One page = 3,000 tokens.
Fix: Paste the text into a Google doc. Download as .md format. Under 200 tokens.

2. You build files inside Cowork too early.
Fix: Plan in Chat first. Move to Cowork only when you know exactly what you want.

3. You write 500-word prompts that reload.
Fix: Write 29 words instead: "I want to [task] to [goal]. Ask me questions using AskUserQuestion."

4. You say "redo the whole thing" to fix section 3.
Fix: "Only redo section 3. Keep everything else. No commentary. Just the output."

5. You send 3 separate messages for 3 tasks.
Fix: One message, three tasks. "Summarize this, list the points, suggest a headline."

6. You type "No, I meant," stacking on the history.
Fix: Click 'Edit' on your original message. Fix it. Regenerate.

7. You rewrite prompts from scratch every time.
Fix: Keep a prompt library. Same structure, swap the variable.

8. You use Opus for a simple grammar check.
Fix: Sonnet for quick tasks. Save Opus + Extended Thinking for deep work.

9. Your about-me file is 22,000 words (too long).
Fix: Trim to under 2,000 words. End sessions with "Write a session-notes .md."
Paste my .md file prompt: https://lnkd.in/dgDDpgBv

10. You never restart & keep stacking long chats.
Fix: When Cowork goes sideways, click "Restart the conversation from here" on an earlier message.

11. You never summarize before things get long.
Fix: Every 15-20 messages → summarize, copy the brief, start a fresh session.

12. You use Projects for recurring files.
Fix: Use Projects. Upload once. Every chat inside references it without re-burning tokens.

13. You dump 50 files into Cowork "just in case."
Fix: Only include what this task needs. Zero folders for quick tasks like email drafts.

14. You keep 3 topics in 1 chat. Claude re-reads all.
Fix: New topic = new chat. Always. Dead context is dead tokens.

15. You leave search & connectors on by default.
Fix: Default everything off. Turn features on per task, not per account.

16. You manually run the same report every week.
Fix: Use /schedule. "Every Monday at 7am, create my weekly briefing."

17. You let Claude Code explore your whole repo.
Fix: Be specific. "Build a bar chart from this CSV. Save as chart .png."

18. You skip Personal Preferences & waste setup.
Fix: Settings → Personal Preferences. Set your tone and style once.

19. You type lazy prompts like "make it better."
Fix: Speak your prompts with wispr .ai. Richer context in one shot.

20. You burn your whole limit in one morning.
Fix: Claude runs on a rolling 5-hour window. Split it.

21. You use Claude for things it can't do.
Fix: Know your tools. Images → Gemini.
Real-time search → Grok.

To download my exact .md files:

1. Go to how-to-ai.guide.
2. Subscribe for free. Open my welcome email.
3. Hit the automatic reply button inside.
4. Go to the Notion link in the second mail.
5. Copy-paste prompts, too.

Getting your team to post on LinkedIn is a nightmare.

But when they do, the results are... pretty crazy.

We successfully made it happen at ColdIQ
With 20+ people regularly posting.

They grew their follower count... which now totals 300,000+ across our entire team.

And this was our #1 channel, scaling our way to $7M ARR.

Until recently, I was convinced we were the absolute BEST at this.

Then... I saw Kai Brandt's playbook with the Enginy team:

50+ people organically posting, which became their #1 channel to go from $1M to $4M ARR.

So we decided to team up to break down both our systems LIVE in Barcelona.

We'll cover:

1. The anatomy of a high-performing post
2. Posting cadence to balance employee work vs. social growth
3. How to leverage engagement from these posts for conversions
4. The formula behind our best-performing hits.

Are you in Barcelona 🇪🇸 (or do you have a friend who is?)

Then come meet us live, and tag a friend who should come!

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Full details for the event:

"How to turn your team into LinkedIn influencers"
🗓 May 21st - 18:00 - 22:00
📍Norrsken Barcelona

Save your spot, there are only 100 seats available!


👉 See you here: luma.com/3es1qh5m

Tak szybko, jak ten post się pojawił, tak szybko zniknął.
Czyżby autorowi jednak zrobiło się wstyd?
A może pod postem pojawił się hejt?
I to on skłonił do refleksji?

Wczoraj o 17:00 na profilu Łukasza Piszczka na Instagramie wskoczył taki post:

Łukasz Piszczek i Jerzy Dudek – dwie legendy polskiej piłki, idole, symbole dyscypliny, ludzie, których oglądały miliony Polaków...
...co reklamują?
PIWO

I to w stylu:
mecz = alkohol
kibicowskie rytuały = piwko
emocje sportowe = otwórz browara

Czyli dokładnie ten przekaz, który od lat niszczy nam społeczeństwo.

Wczoraj zobaczyłem ten post i zrobiłem na szybko screena, bo aż nie dowierzałem. 
Wszedłem kilka godzin później i już tego posta nie było.

Ale i tak chcę o tym powiedzieć, bo boli mnie to, że takie treści piszą ludzie, których sam sportowo podziwiam.

Jestem gigantycznym fanem piłki nożnej.
Dorastałem na meczach reprezentacji i dzisiaj też regularnie oglądam mecze.
Piszczek i Dudek to dla mnie nazwiska kultowe.

I jeśli nawet sportowe autorytety – ludzie sukcesu, profesjonalni piłkarze, ikony dla młodych – dalej normalizują alkohol, to jak my chcemy cokolwiek zmienić jako społeczeństwo?

W Polsce alkohol od zawsze wciska się praktycznie wszędzie:

🍺 mecz
🍺 lek na stres 
🍺 nagroda za sukces
🍺 pocieszenie po porażce
🍺 spotkanie ze znajomymi
🍺 wesela, urodziny, wigilie, święta, imprezy fimowe, karnawał, majówka, grilll, długi weekend…

„Odpowiedzią” zawsze jest „piwko”.

I później dziwimy się, że ludzie nie widzą problemu:
„to tylko piwo – przecież to normalne”

NIE – to nie jest TYLKO piwo.
NIE – to nie jest NORMALNE.

( - ) 16,5 miliona piw kupują Polacy każdego dnia.
( - ) 12 litrów czystego alkoholu spożywa przeciętny Polak rocznie.
( - ) 123 000 punktów sprzedaży alkoholu działa w naszym kraju i rozsiewa tę truciznę.

I do czego to prowadzi?

( - ) 1,5 miliona dzieci w Polsce wychowuje się w domach z problemem alkoholowym.
( - ) 110 osób dziennie umiera w naszym kraju w związku z alkoholem – jesteśmy pod tym względem na 2. miejscu w Europie.

Alkohol to jedna z najbardziej szkodliwych substancji, jakie istnieją.

A jednocześnie dalej budujemy kulturę, w której alkohol jest symbolem relaksu, męskości, emocji i wspólnoty.

Zasłaniamy się „jednym piwkiem”, „kibicowskimi rytuałami”, „tradycją”, a później z konsekwencjami mierzymy się wszyscy, w tym nasze dzieci.

Wszystkie osoby publiczne mają gigantyczny wpływ na społeczeństwo.
Ale takie nazwiska mają nieproporcjonalnie większy.
I ciąży na nich jeszcze większa odpowiedzialność.

Jestem wściekły, kiedy widzę, że tego nie rozumieją.
Naprawdę są granice tego, co można zrobić dla pięniedzy…

Today is day one at Buffer 😊

Yet somehow it doesn't feel like day one at all.

I've spent the last five years in conversation with the operators of the best distributed companies in the world. Buffer has been a reference point for all of us the entire time. The intentionality of how they communicate. The default to transparency. The care they put into the happiness of both their customers and their team.

Joining today feels less like starting a job and more like stepping inside a company I've been learning from for years. And it's such a great feeling! 💙

I'm joining the team as their Senior Operations & Automations Specialist - a role that feels like the one I've been quietly preparing for without knowing it.

My career has been squiggly and unconventional, but there was always a thread underneath: in every role, I was the person quietly building systems in the background to make the work calmer, more thoughtful, easier on the humans doing it.

And the timing feels right.

AI is reshaping how teams actually operate. Getting to be on the inside of that at Buffer - a place that has always thought carefully about how work works - feels like exactly where I want to be!

From the outside for five years. Now from the inside.

So happy to be here and so grateful to Carolyn Kopprasch and Jenna Meindertsma for opening the door. 💛

90% of the people engaging with your LinkedIn posts will never buy from you unless you do this:


Posting on LinkedIn creates intent signals.

But 90% of the decision makers engaging with your content never take action.

That’s why timely outreach after someone engages with your content is a must.

They already showed interest in your expertise.

Most simply got distracted or never crossed the friction barrier to reach out.

Your job after posting is to reach out to those decision-makers while interest is still fresh.

This is where taplio.com becomes a money printer.

You can:

1. Reverse engineer viral posts
2. Schedule content
3. Publish it

AND

Automate connection requests, replies, and DMs to engaged decision-makers right after you post.

That's how you capture the 90% of potential buyers who would otherwise stay passive.

This is what separates people using LinkedIn as a revenue engine from those stuck chasing brand awareness.

Have you tried the new Connection Request feature?

I’m not exaggerating when I say that within minutes of meeting Suzanne Ashman, I knew we had to hire her at Sovereign AI.

We ran a thorough search for our new Managing Partner, with well over 100 candidates, and she stood out at every stage.

Sharp judgement and strategic vision are rare to find.

Finding those qualities alongside founder empathy and a low-ego, collaborative way of working is rarer still.

Suzanne is all of it.

After a decade backing exceptional founders at LocalGlobe, she’s joining us on our mission to back the UK’s best AI companies with the strength of the UK government.

Welcome to the team, Suzanne!

LinkedIn has 1,150,000,000 accounts.

Here are 56 LinkedIn creators who will teach you more skills than a 4-year degree:

AI
1. Ruben Hassid: Explains AI in simple, easy steps.
2. Chip Huyen: Teaches AI through storytelling.
3. Anisha Jain Shares ways to create content (+AI).
4. Greg Isenberg: Builds internet-first companies.
5. Axelle Malek: Explains AI tools in a clear way.
6. Olivia Moore: Covers AI from the VC side.
7. Wyndo: Shares practical, no-fluff AI systems.

Content:
8. Jake Ward: Shares lessons from scaling SEO.
9. AJ Eckstein 🧩: Connects creators with brands.
10. Tara: Writes on writing, storytelling, & books.
11. Diandra: Turn ideas into content machines.
12. Justin: Making people LinkedIn niche famous
13. Mischa: Teach you how to write on LinkedIn.
14. Josh: Tests what works and shares it all.

CEO:
15. Grant Lee: Building Gamma to make AI slides.
16. Guillermo: Building the future of web + AI.
17. Tanay Kothari: Building Wispr, voice-to-text AI.
18. Eric: Coaches CEOs to peak performance.
19. Aravind Srinivas: CEO of Perplexity.
20. Satya Nadella: CEO of Microsoft.
21. Anton Osika: CEO of Lovable, last software.

Video:
22. Simon Meyer: Creates cinematic ads.
23. David Blagojevic: How to make hooking videos.
24. Matthieu: Creative Lead, Google DeepMind.
25. PJ Accetturo: Makes viral AI ads.
26. Sebastien: Helps creators master AI video tools.
27. Alex: Produces Hollywood-level AI content.
28. Dave: Brings AI into film, TV, and ads.

Design:
29. Felix: Shares how AI changes modern design.
30. Tatiana: Posts Midjourney tips & prompts.
31. Drew Brucker: Talks AI design + Midjourney.
32. Dogan: Shows how to work smarter with AI.
33. Nick: Teaches how to design great content.
34. Daniel: Shows how to design for Linkedin.
35. Ross: Posts daily tips for mastering AI.

Coaching/Mindset:
36: Maria Zhanette: Curates who's worth following.
37. Dan Go: Transforms entrepreneur bodies.
38. Colby Kultgen: Posts daily 1% better tips.
39. Reno Perry: Helps land $200K+ dream jobs.
40. Ben Meer: Shares systems for life optimization.

(Rest of the creators are listed in the top comment)

A Founder asked me to slow down today.

His LinkedIn personal brand is popping off.

It’s making him uncomfortable.

Everyone else is out here wondering why they have low impressions.

Meanwhile this is what we’re dealing with.

Too much growth.

Not a problem I ever thought I’d have to be completely honest.

"Mehr Stunden arbeiten“ scheint gerade wieder eine erstaunlich einfache Antwort auf komplexe Fragen zu sein.🤦‍♀️
 
Was mich an der aktuellen Debatte über Arbeitszeit stört, ist vor allem das Bild von Arbeit, das dahintersteckt.
 
Die Vorstellung „mehr Stunden = mehr Leistung“ stammt aus einer Arbeitswelt, in der Arbeit oft sichtbarer und klarer abgrenzbar organisiert war. Unabhängig davon, ob sie körperlich oder geistig geprägt war.
 
Aber viele Arbeitsrealitäten funktionieren heute anders.
Gerade in Wissensarbeit verlaufen Tage selten linear. Zwischen Meetings, spontanen Abstimmungen, konzentrierten Arbeitsphasen und immer mehr digitalen Tools entstehen Arbeitsrhythmen, die oft weniger von festen Zeitblöcken geprägt sind als von Verantwortung, Erreichbarkeit und permanenten Kontextwechseln.
 
Vielleicht ist das auch ein Grund, warum manche Debatten über den Acht-Stunden-Tag für mich zu kurz greifen. Nicht, weil Arbeitszeit oder arbeitsrechtliche Schutzmechanismen an Bedeutung verloren hätten. Im Gegenteil.
Klare Ruhezeiten, verlässliche Regeln und Grenzen sind wichtige Errungenschaften. Sie schützen Menschen davor, dass wirtschaftlicher Druck und dauerhafte Überforderung zulasten von Gesundheit gehen. Gerade in Zeiten hoher Veränderung halte ich das für wichtiger denn je.
 
Gleichzeitig stimmt auch: Viele bestehende Regelungen passen nicht mehr zu jeder Arbeitsrealität. Wer im Homeoffice arbeitet, zwischendurch Kinder betreut oder Arbeitszeit eigenständiger organisieren möchte, erlebt starre Tagesgrenzen eher als Einschränkung und nicht als Unterstützung.
 
Und genau darin liegt aus meiner Sicht die eigentliche Herausforderung: Arbeit flexibler zu gestalten, ohne Schutzmechanismen auszuhöhlen.
 
Denn mehr Einfluss auf die eigene Arbeitszeit kann durchaus ein Gewinn sein. Studien zeigen seit Jahren, dass Menschen zufriedener sind, wenn sie Beginn und Ende ihrer Arbeitszeit stärker selbst gestalten können. Modelle, bei denen längere Arbeitstage bewusst gegen mehr freie Zeit eingetauscht werden, können deshalb für viele attraktiv sein.
 
Flexibilität funktioniert aber nur dort gut, wo klare Rahmenbedingungen, gute Arbeitsorganisation und verlässliche Ausgleichsmechanismen existieren. Und wo Beschäftigte bei der Gestaltung mitreden. Gemeinsam mit den Betriebspartnern und abgestimmt auf den jeweiligen Arbeitskontext.
 
Die eigentliche Frage lautet deshalb für mich nicht "Wie holen wir möglichst viele Stunden aus Menschen heraus?", sondern "Wie gestalten wir Arbeit so, dass Leistung langfristig möglich bleibt?". Und zwar ohne dass Fokus, Energie und Gesundheit dabei systematisch aufgebraucht werden.
 
Bin gespannt auf eure Meinung.
 
#Arbeitszeit #Führung #GesundeArbeit #Achtstundentag

Wenn du im Training immer nur das Tempo derer gehst, die gerade keine Bereitschaft zeigen, wirst du keine Nationalspieler entwickeln.

Dann ziehst du am Ende nur die runter, die eigentlich mehr wollen 📉

Im Sport verstehen das alle sofort.
Eine Mannschaft wird besser, wenn die Leistungsbereiten ein Umfeld bekommen, in dem sie wachsen können.
Mit Leuten, die mitziehen und einer Umgebung, die sie fördert und fordert.

Natürlich musst du allen Menschen helfen und Angebote machen.
Natürlich musst du begleiten, fördern, zuhören.

Aber ich habe zunehmend das Gefühl, dass wir in Schule, Ausbildung und teilweise auch in Unternehmen den Fokus verlieren.

Wir beschäftigen uns oft zuerst mit denen, die blockieren, bremsen oder gar nichts investieren wollen.
Und die, die bereit sind, extra Wege zu gehen, warten inzwischen häufig darauf, dass überhaupt jemand ihr Tempo mitgeht.

Das mag hart klingen.
Mir war es trotzdem wichtig, genau darüber beim jakobb Berlin & Christiani Ausbildertag zu sprechen 🗣️

Denn im Sport merkst du ganz genau, was passiert, wenn sich eine Gruppe dauerhaft nach unten orientiert.
Das Niveau sinkt nicht auf einmal, das geht schleichend.
Das Anspruchsdenken verändert sich und die Intensität im Training dann auch.

Und irgendwann reicht es vielen schon, irgendwie mitzulaufen.
Ich sehe da einige Parallelen zur Welt außerhalb des Sports.

Darum mein Appell bei der Veranstaltung:
Wir sollten wieder mehr Energie in die investieren, die wirklich wollen.

Denn genau diese Menschen sorgen am Ende dafür, dass eine Gruppe besser wird — und nicht schlechter.

📷 Foto von Laurenz Bostedt

9 tools I (religiously) use to do the work of 9 people:

1/ claude premium
☑ Replaces: chatgpt for work-related tasks.
☑ General-purpose AI assistant
☑ $20/month

Pro tip: Use claude-co.work, not the chat.
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2/ gamma
☑ Replaces: PowerPoint
☑ AI slide creation
☑ $9/month

Pro tip: check how-to-gamma.ai.
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3/ wispr flow
☑ Replaces: your keyboard
☑ Voice → text input
☑ $12/month

Pro tip: How I use it: https://lnkd.in/eX3tNqjB.
__

4/ ChatGPT
☑ Replaces: Gemini nano banana
☑ AI for images and content
☑ $20/month

Pro tip: free guide at https://lnkd.in/dgHtVdBF.
__

5/ midjourney
☑ Replaces: designer
☑ High-quality image generation
☑ $10/month

Disclaimer: 99% of you don't need it.
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6/ notion
☑ Replaces: google workspace
☑ Docs, notes, collaboration
☑ $10/month
__

7/ granola
☑ Replaces: any meeting note taker
☑ Meeting capture and notes
☑ $14/month

Here's why you need it: https://lnkd.in/dQx36eb6.
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8/ grok
☑ Replaces: perplexity
☑ Real-time AI search with X access.
☑ $30/month

Pro tip: how to set it up https://lnkd.in/dE_j37Ss.

(Use ChatGPT for deep research)
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9/ grammarly
☑ Replaces: spellchecker
☑ Always a perfect English, fast
☑ $12/month

Total monthly cost to do everything: $137/month.

Repost ♻ to help others work (ridiculously) well.

You're smart but imagine if you were consistent.

I know plenty of brilliant people who are broke because they can't stick to anything long enough to see results.

And I know plenty of average people building empires because they show up every single day.

The gap between knowing and doing is where potential dies.

It's also where fortunes are made.

Stop relying on your brain to save you.

The world doesn't pay you for being smart.

It pays you for being reliable. Especially now.

-DM

He wrote, "Papa passed away. I won't need your help anymore."

I met a dear friend recently, whose father had Alzheimer's.

The last few months were spent inside hospital corridors that smelled of antiseptic and uncertainty.

The doctors spoke in complicated language.

Exhausted and desperate for clarity, he uploaded the medical reports into an AI model.

It simplified the jargon, explained what each medication was doing, and what to expect next.

But then something unexpected happened.

It did not just explain - it acknowledged.
It used words that felt… human.

"I'm sorry you're going through this."
"This must be difficult."
"Here's what this likely means."

Over days, and then weeks, it became a rhythm.

One morning, his father passed away.

In the middle of grief, rituals, relatives, paperwork, tears…
He opened the chat window and typed:

"Papa passed away on 9th of January.
Thank you for helping me understand everything.
I won't need your help anymore."

I found this - I don't know - beautiful? Crazy? Both?
That he felt a moral responsibility to inform a machine.

Some will call this dystopian.
A sign that we are replacing humans with machines.
I see something else.

In one of the most vulnerable moments of his life, a tool reduced his confusion.
Lowered his anxiety.
And when that chapter closed, he felt compelled to close the loop.

We are entering a world where our machines will not just execute tasks.

They will witness our lives.
Our confusion.
Our grief.

And we are far closer to that future than most of us realise.

Agree?

The interface is not the product anymore.

When I came back to Hootsuite, I talked about the opportunity in front of us.

Here’s my honest read on what is happening across our industry and why the dashboard era is ending.

Let me know what you think, and watch this space. More to come.

Wild: Anthropic has not only passed OpenAI in reported revenue run rate. At ~$45 billion ARR, Anthropic may now be the fastest-growing software business of all time 😳

To put that in perspective, Salesforce did roughly ~$38B in FY2025.

Anthropic is reportedly annualizing more than that while most companies are still debating whether AI agents are production-ready.

The numbers are absurd:

→ ~$10M ARR in late 2022
→ ~$1B ARR by Jan 2025
→ ~$14B ARR by early 2026
→ ~$45B ARR by May 2026

That is not a normal SaaS curve. That is a software company learning how to sell software that writes software.

And Claude Code is the center of the story.

↳ In under a year, it reportedly hit a ~$2.5B run rate.
↳ Enterprise customers spending $1M+/year allegedly doubled from ~500 to ~1,000 in just 2 months.
↳ And more than 80% of Anthropic’s revenue is now enterprise.

While others chased consumer virality, Anthropic went straight for enterprise codebases, recurring budgets, developer workflows, and work teams can’t just “turn off.”

That is the monetization gap.

Fewer users than competitors, but dramatically higher spend per customer.

Sure, Anthropic will spend an obscene amount on training, inference, and compute.

But if revenue keeps scaling like this, the old SaaS math starts to break.

We thought AI would be a feature inside software.

Instead, it’s replacing parts of it.

If this trajectory holds, the biggest winners in AI won’t be the apps.

It will be those who own the A layer everything else runs on.

And right now, that layer is ClaudeOS.

P.S. check out how Anthropic stopped selling AI to Wall Street & started becoming Wall St.’s Operating System 🏦🧠: https://lnkd.in/g_bFhcCy

Jeff Bezos owns 10% of Amazon. 
Elon Musk owns 17% of Tesla. 
Warren Buffet owns 18.7% of Berkshire Hathaway.

These incredibly successful people understood one main thing.

The more money you make for other people, the more money you make yourself. Even though the pie is not 100% yours.

Early on I thought every dollar I make has to be mine. That's a lesson that took me too long to understand.

If you think cigarettes, gambling, crypto, or the chemicals industry are hated... wait 'til you see what people think of AI 😳

Morning Consult runs large scale surveys on hundreds of brands, and AI is nearly the least trusted (and most negatively perceived) category they measure.

I wonder if businesses will keep adopting AI (b/c execs are obsessed) while consumers drift away. The decline of ChatGPT the last 6 months (that we saw in Datos' State of Search report) could be a canary in this coalmine 🤔

Interesting if you read the full report - the anglosphere (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ) hate AI most. Africa least.

Jude Law generated $50M in sales pipeline.

Legora is onboarding 50 people every 14 days. 3.6 per day!

$100M in ARR in 18 months. $275M by EOY 2026. Wow.                                                         

Paul Graham described them as “ the most impressive startup I've been to visit in years.”

I sat down with Legora’s CRO, I took some notes and have added them below.

1. Implementation Change Management
Success is defined by change management, not just software. Legora focuses on helping customers adopt AI into workflows, which is fundamentally difficult. You must lead the customer through the “hard yards” of organizational change.

2. Why FTEs are Required in Enterprise
High-end AI needs human experts. Legora uses Forward Deploy engineers and former attorneys, known as Legal Engineers, to bridge the gap. They solve the “blank page” problem by showing exactly how a workflow looks with agents.

3. Throwing out the Traditional Sales Playbook
Old SaaS held demos back. Now you must demo early to show the future. Reps must be audible ready, asking deep questions and building agentic workflows off the cuff during the meeting. AI literacy is low, so the product must lead the way.

4. Brand Awareness as a Performance Driver
Brand awareness is a powerful driver of business, not “fluffy bullshit.” A campaign with Jude Law generated over $50M of qualified pipeline in one month. In category creation, if you are not “in the room,” you lose.

5. Price Integrity over Free
Legora does not give software away. If a customer is not spending money, they will not commit the resources needed for change. Price integrity ensures both parties have skin in the game and value the partnership.

6. Scaling Talent at Unhinged Speed
Legora hires 40 to 50 people every two weeks. Immersive training in Stockholm gets reps ready to sit on calls by week two. They use AI to score demo quality, identifying within 45 days whether a rep will make it.

7. The Lulucast vs. The Bet Your Life Forecast
Effective forecasting requires two perspectives: the rep and manager commit, or the bet your life number, and the Lulucast, which is the weighted math version. Accuracy depends on tight entry and exit criteria for every sales stage.

8. Momentum and Pressing the Advantage
Product-market fit is unwavering. When you have it, you know it. When you find something that works competitively, document it and press the advantage. In an unhinged market, you must play defense and offense simultaneously.

(links in comments)

Simple rules are the hardest to follow.


If it's not yours, don't take it.
If it's not right, don't do it.
If it's not true, don't say it.
If you don't know, be quiet.

Four rules. Zero complexity. Most people break all of them by noon.

→ They take credit for work that wasn't theirs.
→ They go along with things they know are wrong.
→ They say what sounds good instead of what's true.
→ They talk when they should be listening.

Not because they're bad people. Because it's easier in the moment.

↳ Taking credit gets you ahead faster.
↳ Going along avoids conflict.
↳ Saying what people want to hear is smoother.
↳ Talking fills the awkward silence.

But shortcuts compound. So does integrity.

The person who follows these four rules won't always win in the short term. But over a career? They build something most people never get: a reputation that opens doors before they even knock.

Simple doesn't mean easy. These rules will cost you sometimes. Follow them anyway.

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Getting along with your boss is not about agreeing with everything they say. It is about understanding how they think, what they care about, and how to communicate in a way that makes their job easier.

ChatGPT can help with that.

Before a difficult conversation, you can use it to practice what you want to say. Instead of walking into a meeting frustrated, you can ask ChatGPT to help you turn a complaint into a clear, professional request.

For example:

“I feel like my workload is becoming unmanageable. Help me say this to my boss in a calm, constructive way.”

You can also use ChatGPT to prepare updates your boss will actually appreciate. Many managers do not want every tiny detail. They want to know what is done, what is blocked, what needs a decision, and what is coming next.

A simple prompt might be:

“Turn these project notes into a concise update for my manager.”

ChatGPT can also help you understand your boss’s perspective. If they seem demanding, vague, or overly critical, you can describe the situation and ask:

“What might my manager be worried about here, and how can I respond productively?”

That does not mean your boss is always right. It just helps you pause before reacting and choose a response that moves the situation forward.

The real value of ChatGPT is not that it gives you magic words. It helps you slow down, organize your thoughts, and communicate with more intention.

A better relationship with your boss often starts with better communication. ChatGPT can be a useful tool for getting there.

Marketing a bad product is like putting a billboard on a sinking ship.

More people just know it’s sinking faster.

That’s not a marketing problem. That’s a product problem.

The sales spike lasts about 2 weeks before the reviews catch up. Before the refund requests roll in. Before word gets out that the thing just… doesn’t work.

You cannot outspend a bad product. You cannot out-creative a bad product. You cannot social media strategy your way out of a fundamentally broken experience.

Fix the product first. Then give it a megaphone.

Last week, I saw one of the ever so popular LinkedIn "call out posts" from an HR expert critiquing a company for the low salary range on their job posting.

And the post was flooded with comments from other HR experts piling on with how terrible this is.

But two things stood out to me: the screenshot they shared said, "estimated salary" and the job board was one I'd never heard of.

I did a quick search and found that:
1. The job posting doesn't exist on the actual company site which suggests it's either outdated or fraudulent.
2. The company doesn't post salary ranges (which, I personally think should be standard, but it's not required in their location), and that reinforces that the range on the posting isn't real.
3. The “job board” was actually an aggregator site that scrapes listings from across the internet and uses some sort of automation to fill in missing information including generating “estimated salaries” where no salary was provided.

These aggregators make money off of the traffic/clicks on their sites (which include ads targeting jobseekers) + getting the info of people who "apply" for jobs on their site - your app won't go anywhere, but they now have your info and can try to sell you job search services, sell your info to marketers, etc.

It took me about 2 minutes to verify this.

I dropped a comment explaining this (and later, the head of TA from the company chimed in that they definitely didn't have a CHRO role open which confirms the fake job).

So what's the point of this post?
- HR professionals should be especially careful about verifying hiring information before amplifying it.
- This could have been a great opportunity to educate jobseekers on spotting fake jobs and low-quality job boards - instead of actually legitimized that job board with a professional sharing it as a reliable source.
- And more broadly: if you’re going to publicly criticize a company or individual in a way that could cause reputation harm, really do your due diligence.

There's a lot of misinformation and rage bait online, and our feeds are flooded with negative content that erodes trust and leaves us feeling more cynical and disconnected. That's harming everyone - it's harming your mental health and your ability to build community.

And the people who choose to use these strategies in their content don't do it for your benefit. The more we can combat that, the better off we'll all be.

Lots of multifamily investors are quitting

Some have switched to oil & gas or senior living. Some are now buying businesses.

Not because multifamily is a bad strategy.

The market had a huge reset over the last 3 years. A lot of deals got wiped out.

Even today, 99% of deals still do NOT make sense.

So naturally, investors will start looking elsewhere.

This is actually good news! (to some extent)

Less people looking into multifamily creates less competition. Less inflated pricing. And more opportunity for the rest of us.

What are your thoughts?

I almost didn't make my first hire. 
Not because I couldn't find the right person.

Because I couldn't justify the cost.

Then I ran the numbers.
And I realized I was looking at it completely wrong.

Here's the math that changed my mind:

If you're running a $200K/year business...

↳ You're working roughly 2,000 hours a year.
↳ Your time is worth about $100 an hour.

Now look at your week.
How many of those hours are going to tasks that don't need you?

For me it was 20 hours a week.

↳ Emails. Scheduling. Reporting. Follow-ups.
↳ Work that kept me busy but never moved the business forward.

20 hours x $100 = $2,000 a week.
$2,000 x 50 weeks = $100,000 a year.

That's what I was spending to stay stuck.

A part-time team member handling those 20 hours?

↳ Costs a fraction of that.
↳ Frees up time I can point directly at revenue.

The hire doesn't cost you money.
Keeping those tasks costs you money.

Most founders see a salary and stop there.
They miss the number that actually matters.
That number is the real cost of staying stuck.

👊

How many hours a week are you spending on work that doesn't need you? 💬👇

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When the industry shows up, you can feel it.
You feel the energy.
You feel the momentum.
You feel the connection.

And the industry showed up at #MIC26.
At California MBA, we helped create the vision and the vibe — but the industry brought it.

Thank you to our sponsors, our members, and everyone who attended. You came ready to engage, connect, and do the work. That is what made this event such a success.

I also want to thank our California MBA Board of Directors for their leadership and support, and our incredible staff — Krys Delk, Sydney, Sarah, Susan, Susan W. & Nick— for all the work behind the scenes to make MIC26 happen.

And of course, a special thank you to our conference Chairs Kevin Peranio and Ike Suri.

I am grateful for this industry, proud of what we built together, and fired up for what’s ahead.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at MIC27.

Let's talk about AI usage in ATS software.

Here are 5 'truths' every job seeker should know ↓

Truth 1: AI in ATS is now the norm, not the exception.

↳ As of late 2024, 51% of US companies used AI in hiring, with projections reaching 68% by the end of 2025. Of those, 82% use AI specifically to review resumes.
↳ This is no longer a Fortune 500 thing; mid-market companies are adopting fast. (Source: JobCannon)

Truth 2: The "ATS auto-rejects your resume" story is largely a myth.

↳ A 2025 Jobscan survey of 384 recruiters found that 99.7% use keyword filters to prioritize candidates, not eliminate them. The ATS organizes applications. Humans make rejection decisions. (Source: Theglobalframe)

Truth 3: AI has moved beyond keywords; It reads context.

↳ SHRM confirms that keyword matching alone is no longer sufficient. ATS systems now analyze semantic context and evidence of competence.
↳ Keyword stuffing is ineffective; the system is too smart. Your proof points and career narrative matter more.
(Source: ResumeAdapter)

Truth 4: AI screening has documented bias problems that should concern every job seeker.

↳ University of Washington researchers found that AI screening tools favored white-associated names 85% of the time versus Black-associated names just 9% of the time. There are MAJOR lawsuits and legal actions in place that will hopefully drive much-needed changes.
(Source: The Interview Guys)

Truth 5: Your network still beats the algorithm.

↳ Referrals account for 7% of applications but 40% of hires. You can optimize your resume all day, but the highest-leverage move is still getting someone inside to advocate for you. AI screens the cold applicant pool. It doesn't touch the warm advocacy lane. (Source: Theglobalframe)
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AI isn't going anywhere, so it pays to understand the impact it's having in the moment. The technology changes fast, and in some cases, these changes affect hiring trends.

PS - What other 'truths' should be added to this list?