Distribution/Sales Channel

same as collective intelligence?

AI: Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI.[2] Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, the Codex CLI, a desktop app for Windows and macOS,[3] and several IDE integrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Codex_(AI_agent) (more)

Linear.app says Issue tracking is dead. It was built for a handoff model of software development. A PM scoped the work, engineers picked it up later, and the system filled with prioritization, negotiation, and workflows to bridge the gap. That ceremony came from real constraints. Engineering time was scarce. (more)

a business that primarily sells services, not products (more)

revenue less direct costs (COGS), typically measured as a % of Revenue; see related contribution margin

White Space around body content of a page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_(typography) (more)

Economy where most people are not making things, but providing (semi-) custom service. (Service Business) (more)

There are lots of frameworks/etc to layer on top of AI tools like Claude Code for non-coding knowledge work/etc. I decided to try out Peter Kaminski's PKAI starter kit. (I know him, and he has a Discord support-community...) (more)

Verve Remixed is a series of albums released (beginning 2002) by Verve Records centered on the concept of classic Verve tracks, remixed by contemporary electronic music producers and DJs. The series has proven to be very popular, both with fans of the original recordings and with younger generations of music listeners, many of whom are exposed to the classic jazz and blues artists for the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve_Remixed (more)

Jason Cohen: Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine. The most common reaction to my recent announcement1 of starting a new WordPress hosting company was that this blog provides me with a ridiculous unfair advantage. (more)

Michael Light: Intuition Behind the “Founder-Product-Market Fit”. *In this interview, I spoke with Taylor Pearson. (more)

GritCult: Marketing [is dead](https://x.com/GRITCULT/article/2044378810489913809. Long live The Distribution Engineer. Your entire marketing department is about to be replaced by one person with an AI agent swarm. This is how it happens, who survives, and why the most important job title in tech doesnt exist yet. (more)

Brian Balfour: The Next Great Distribution Shift. The Missing Piece of the AI Revolution. (more)

Ori Eldarov: Stop Building SaaS for SMBs—Buy Them Instead. TL;DR: Many founders have become excited about building software for the “untapped” SMB market, grossly miscalculating the difficulty they will face in both GTM and adoption. In this post, I will make the case that founders interested in SMBs have a way bigger (and less risky) opportunity in front of them—they can just acquire SMBs and build their dream tech around them. In fact, most Tier 1 VCs are already doing this in stealth. (He's talking mostly about people wanting to start an AI-based product company.) (more)

Nate B Jones: Run this 4-question test before you let any [AI] into your files, your Slack.com, or your phone. I think the news is pointing at one shift, and it is not the one the headlines are arguing about. The AI race is becoming a race to context. The question is no longer only “who has the smartest model?” It is who can put usable intelligence closest to the work in front of you. (more)

Ben Tarnoff review of Four Futures: Life After Capitalism – will robots bring utopia or terror? ISBN:1781688133 (more)

a multi-layer-iterative Product Management process of Thinking in Bets (more)

Karl Schroeder: Retiring Geopolitics. I started Unapocalyptic with a couple of goals. Not quite manifestos, these are certainly lines in the sand. (more)

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