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Founder of 2 tech startups. Ex investment banker. Politically centre/lefty. Dad to the most wonderful man and woman on the planet.

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What utterly grim reading.

10.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Holy crap, Jacob.

10.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is so basic. You can’t deny that AI is a great tool. But product is the responsibility of the people using the AI, not the AI itself. This is an organisational/workflow problem with people who are too lazy or too thick to do it right.

It’s only a tool, use it right or you’re a tool.

10.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a vile experience. I did just fine but feel like I need to disinfect myself. Ugh.

10.03.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Post of the day πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Moudhy really knows how to lend perspective.

10.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our intent is to learn how to write this way naturally, however we’ll pump the whole lot into an LLM for review.

Lastly about those tech tech docs. The LLM can write them and we’ll review.

10.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have decided on a tone to adopt and are refining a comprehensive style guide. We’ll then pass all copy through that guide, with options for that copy being editorial, blog posts, tech documentation or social media posts. Each will differ in tone. 🧡2

10.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really interesting one. If I were writing a book (be glad that I never will), I’d reject the idea of LLM editing outright.

But my next professional task is to write a ton of copy for a website as Immy business partner and launch a business. 🧡1

10.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep

10.03.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I was an investment banker I did derivatives that were side deals to big securitisations. So I got to work with whoever was running that deal. By heck it was always better when o e of the women was doing that job. Absolute fecking night and day better.

09.03.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I left when it was obvious that I wasn’t seeing relevant posts. Mine also lost what their slight traction, which is a shame from a business perspective.

I want to see what’s happening first hand now and it’s unfortunate that I can’t. There’s no point returning because I’ll get deluged with idiocy.

09.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

@jay.bsky.team, we’re living through times that future historians will pore over. The toxicity of X will be studied. BlueSky being an alternative likewise. Your name will get attached to this. Think on that and be proud.

09.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jeez. I left Twitter and won’t go back. When it was good it was very good. It’s a shame this place hasn’t yet managed to replicate that. I hope this changes.

09.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Given that it’s already VC financed with the last round in 2024, I doubt they will. If they do I’ll revisit this post and showing all my moral courage, I’ll delete it.

09.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky raises $15M Series A, plans to launch subscriptions | TechCrunch Decentralized social app Bluesky announced on Thursday that it has raised a $15 million Series A round, following its $8 million seed raise last year.

They long since raised $23m from VC. Let’s not write it off yet. Twitter was VC backed too while it was good. What went wrong was Musk, not eg VC finance.

Absent external money this thing wouldn’t be here now.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/b...

09.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good on you. Great job getting it to this point.

09.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Total mensch

09.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon minion wearing a crown and a king 's robe is speaking into a microphone Alt: A cartoon minion wearing a crown and a king 's robe is dropping a microphone. I chose a minion because I lack imagination.
09.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For a non tech guy (I’m boldly assuming), you’ve struck on a super description here. I’ll have to steal it for future presentations.

09.03.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds like an office I used the work in.

09.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ideally yes. If z-index remains necessary, have a containing element declare β€œisolation: isolate;”, so you keep the z-index challenges local and isolated (hence the name).

09.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also AI isn’t very good at witty alt text.

Neither am I but that’s not the point here.

09.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…

Can we STOP with this β€˜special relationship’ BS

And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

09.03.2026 11:04 πŸ‘ 2632 πŸ” 733 πŸ’¬ 199 πŸ“Œ 50

BREAKING: US strikes on Iranian vessels, with reports they may be oil tankers.

09.03.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Quite, Dmitry

bsky.app/profile/simo...

09.03.2026 11:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Predictably here we go. War involving Israel, irrespective of who’s at fault make it a bad time to be Jewish.

09.03.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I’m so disappointed in him.

07.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Big Ben peeking above the the buildings of Whitehall

Big Ben peeking above the the buildings of Whitehall

A bit later.

07.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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London πŸ₯°

07.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Just one problem among many.

06.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0