Building, breaking, learning, sprinting, reflecting.

Welcome to Extract 001 of Jawad.zip.

Each week I share what I’m learning while building a $100 million revenue company in public. I have a lot of wild conversations, see a lot, read a lot, and learn a lot. I compress it all into a 2-minute read for you.

Today’s word count: 670

Read time: 2 mins 15 sec.

Extracts

Living in the future

This needs to be a balanced act, when you’re living in the future, you are one step away from delusion or pure anxiety. I like living in the future, its fun there. But What I found to be important is finding my way back from there.

A better way is to “visit the future” see how your world could look, then come back and start building it.

How far will you go for A+ players

This weekend I was reading Lift off, Elon musk and the desperate early days the launched SpaceX.

It reminded me that when you’re building something ambitious, the rules are different. You don’t just post a job and hope for the best. You move mountains to get the right people on board.

they needed to bring the brilliant young engineer from Turkey on board, it became a matter of solving the problem. His wife had a job in San Francisco? She would need one in Los Angeles? "These were solvable problems, and Elon's better at solving problems than almost anyone else," Davis said.

Musk therefore came into his job interview with Altan prepared, about halfway through, Musk told Altan, "So I heard you don't want to move to L.A., and one of the reasons is that your wife works for Google. Well, I just talked to Larry, and they're going to transfer your wife down to L.A. So what are you going to do now?"

Buildlog

Everyone is vibe coding, even me. last weekend I vibe coded our savings calculator on Firebase studio

Recently, we started something new, we are calling it: Vibe planning

What started as an insane 2 week sprint to ship MilkStraw 2.0 Bet turned into one of the best discoveries since the company was born.

Everything broke. Under so much pressure, we ditched linear, no big planning meetings, and tossed project scoping our of the window. Just build.

To have a little control, we quickly decided to just have a one hour meeting every 2 days until the release. Rinse and Repeat. We moved faster than ever!

After we shipped, we sat down and realized: we were all relieved the old system broke. It felt freeing, just building, no friction.

Free at last, Just vibing our way through.

We’re keeping the momentum. Vibe planning is here to stay. Some structure will be added, but mostly just building. More on that next week.

Discoveries

Tool of the week

Dia is one my favorite beta tools right now.

It’s Arc sister browser by the browser company. It’s an AI powered browser that takes everything into context. Your tabs, searches, historical browsing, writing style.

Its kinda wild! AI with context is a game changer.

Check out this twitter thread for a look at the features.

Brand of the week:

Browserbase is one my favorite early-stage companies right now.

It’s tech with a human touch, approachable, and refreshingly un-corporate. In a world full of sterile SaaS logos and buzzword soup, Browserbase stands out by actually feeling alive. If you want a glimpse of what the next wave of developer tools should look and feel like, keep your eye on these folks.

Article of the week:

• 10 Lessons from 10 Years in Tech (a16z, LinkedIn, Snap) — the best article I read last month. It has more insights per line than any other.

Quote of the Week

“Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up & exposes it “

You can be perfectly happy with a product until someone passionate builds an alternative. Suddenly, what you thought was great is just… average.

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Jawad