I had 5 "speed" conversations this week
I had a lot of conversations about speed this week. Not speed for speed's sake, but speed as a means to get to market faster, capitalize on customer base and network effects, and ultimately create a more defensible moat for businesses.
AI is accelerating this—letting us ship faster than ever. But with AGI still a decade away according to Andrej Karpathy, we're in this messy middle period where AI amplifies velocity but can't replace judgment.
Everyone's scrambling to figure this out. And maybe that scramble—that willingness to build messy, hybrid workflows while others wait for best practices—is the actual moat.
Most Interesting
Fast is a moat
Speed isn't rushing—it's collapsing the time between idea and prototype. When you ship fast, you set the conversation's terms instead of reacting to version four of a problem you're still solving for version one.
Design + Development
Affinity goes free with rebrand that threads the Canva needle
Affinity's post-Canva rebrand solves a positioning nightmare—feeling premium enough for pros while staying accessible.
SVGL - searchable library of tech brand SVG logos
An open source collection of 300+ tech logos with light/dark variants and an API. This site saves you from digging through brand guidelines PDFs or begging marketing teams for proper logo files.
The real problem with AI coding is comprehension debt
When AI writes code, you skip the mental model building that happens when you write it yourself. Teams ship 100 lines in seconds, then burn 70 hours debugging because nobody understands the logic. The fix is shaping the architecture with AI upfront instead of accepting whatever it generates.
Tech + Innovation
This Mac clipboard manager stays 100% on-device and charges once ($14) instead of monthly. The step paste feature fills forms out sequentially, and text splitting breaks long docs into manageable chunks. And these are just two of the helpful features. Worth a look. Board Board is gaming hardware that puts the screen flat on a table and uses physical game pieces as controllers. Finally someone has a solution for the "everyone staring at their own screen" problem of modern gaming.
Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then. Let's take a tour of domain milestones over the last forty years...and ask what comes next.
Work + Mindset
Holman's advice on tender offers is simple: take the money. Zenefits execs guaranteed him wealth weeks before their collapse. GitHub paper millionaires stayed functionally broke for years. The startup delusion makes you think this windfall happens every four years, but successful exits are timing and luck.
Original work is now an endangered species
AI dropped the creation barrier to zero, flooding platforms with identical Tailwind templates and LLM-rewritten listicles. Everyone ships "vibe-coded apps" that work but disappear from memory instantly because the tools replaced having ideas instead of amplifying them.
