The rotation where it's your turn to be woken up by a server. A week of sleeping with your phone on full volume, bracing.
It's 3am, I'm on-call, and the alert just says 'something is wrong.' Cool. Cool cool cool.
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Completing something as fast as humanly possible, optimized to the second. Now also applied to startups and personal collapse.
He speedran the startup lifecycle: raised, hired, scaled, and folded in 14 months.
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How many months a startup can keep paying salaries before the money runs out and the founder posts 'some personal news' on LinkedIn.
We have seven months of runway, which the CEO keeps describing as 'seven months of opportunity.'
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The secret instructions a company feeds its AI before you ever type anything. Where 'you are a helpful assistant' and a long list of forbidden topics live.
Their entire moat was a System Prompt someone leaked on day two.
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The part where an investor actually checks whether the things you claimed are true. Founders' single least favorite hobby.
Due diligence revealed the '2 million users' were 2 million email signups from a free iPad giveaway.
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