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Most product strategies are written backwards.
You start with vision, then wonder why your team can't execute it.
Elite PMs flip the sequence: Superpowers first. Vision second.
Here's the framework that separates executable strategy from strategy theater:
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You start with vision, then wonder why your team can't execute it.
Elite PMs flip the sequence: Superpowers first. Vision second.
Here's the framework that separates executable strategy from strategy theater:
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A VP once asked me: "What would our vision be if we could only leverage our existing superpowers?"
I started to protest. Vision should be unconstrained.
Then I realized: every successful product I'd shipped was built on unique capabilities we already had.
Every failure was built on capabilities we wished we had.
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I started to protest. Vision should be unconstrained.
Then I realized: every successful product I'd shipped was built on unique capabilities we already had.
Every failure was built on capabilities we wished we had.
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The typical product strategy sequence:
1. Dream up inspiring vision
2. Identify strategic pillars
3. List features for roadmap
4. Hope the team can execute
It produces 40-slide decks that sound impressive in steering committees.
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1. Dream up inspiring vision
2. Identify strategic pillars
3. List features for roadmap
4. Hope the team can execute
It produces 40-slide decks that sound impressive in steering committees.
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Announcing Stirrup, our new open source framework for building agents. It’s lightweight, flexible, extensible and incorporates best-practices from leading agents like Claude Code
Stirrup differs from other agent frameworks by avoiding the rigidity that can degrade output quality. Stirrup lets models drive their own workflow, like Claude Code, while still giving developers structure and building in essential features like context management, MCP support and code execution. We use Stirrup at Artificial Analysis as part of our agentic benchmarks, including as part of our GDPval-AA evaluation being released later today. Just ‘pip install stirrup’ to start building your own agents today!
Key advantages:
➤ Works with the model, not against it: Stirrup steps aside and lets the model decide how to solve multi step tasks, as opposed to existing frameworks which impose strict patterns that limit performance.
➤ Best practices built in: We studied leading agent systems (e.g. Claude Code) to extract practical patterns around context handling, tool design, and workflow stability, and embedded those directly into the framework.
➤ Fully customizable: Use Stirrup as a package or as a starting template to build your own fully customized agents.
Feature highlights:
➤ Essential tools ready to use: Ships with pre built tools such as online search and browsing, code execution (local, docker, or using an @e2b sandbox), MCP client and document IO
➤ Flexible tool layer: A Generic Tool interface makes it simple to define and extend custom tools
➤ Context management: Automatic summarization to stay within context limits while preserving task fidelity
➤ Provider flexibility: Built in support for OpenAI compatible APIs (including @OpenRouterAI) and LiteLLM, or bring your own client
➤ Multimodal support: Process images, video, and audio with automatic format handling
Stirrup differs from other agent frameworks by avoiding the rigidity that can degrade output quality. Stirrup lets models drive their own workflow, like Claude Code, while still giving developers structure and building in essential features like context management, MCP support and code execution. We use Stirrup at Artificial Analysis as part of our agentic benchmarks, including as part of our GDPval-AA evaluation being released later today. Just ‘pip install stirrup’ to start building your own agents today!
Key advantages:
➤ Works with the model, not against it: Stirrup steps aside and lets the model decide how to solve multi step tasks, as opposed to existing frameworks which impose strict patterns that limit performance.
➤ Best practices built in: We studied leading agent systems (e.g. Claude Code) to extract practical patterns around context handling, tool design, and workflow stability, and embedded those directly into the framework.
➤ Fully customizable: Use Stirrup as a package or as a starting template to build your own fully customized agents.
Feature highlights:
➤ Essential tools ready to use: Ships with pre built tools such as online search and browsing, code execution (local, docker, or using an @e2b sandbox), MCP client and document IO
➤ Flexible tool layer: A Generic Tool interface makes it simple to define and extend custom tools
➤ Context management: Automatic summarization to stay within context limits while preserving task fidelity
➤ Provider flexibility: Built in support for OpenAI compatible APIs (including @OpenRouterAI) and LiteLLM, or bring your own client
➤ Multimodal support: Process images, video, and audio with automatic format handling
Stirrup agents can be easily set up in just a few lines of code
Stirrup includes built in logging to help you observe and debug agents
Well, after I emailed Nella this morning 6am asking if she has some info from her end, which might had been helpful in not putting a person in danger for reasons which I cannot know, and told her to get back to me by noon, ofc she ignored it, because she only cares about herself.
Because her boyfriend was in touch with me sporadically during the days I was in Vienna, he can prove at least from his point of view what he knows and is part of my text about the remaining days which continues with the events from August 1st onwards. From what I know, he is a
good guy & I am happy they moved in together. This situation will automatically increase her safety, which had been the only thing I cared & worried about. It'll also prevent that she can put herself in danger again in the future - out of stupidity, especially! That does not mean
🧵 THREAD: Silver’s Call Skew Just Did Something Big (and gold didn’t follow… that’s the whole story)
Thanx to @themarketear for GREAT KICK-OFF
Thanx to @themarketear for GREAT KICK-OFF
1/ Something unusual just happened in the options market:
Silver’s call skew is exploding upward — separating sharply from gold. This almost never happens without a major move behind it. 🥈⚡
Silver’s call skew is exploding upward — separating sharply from gold. This almost never happens without a major move behind it. 🥈⚡
2/ What is call skew? It’s how much traders are willing to overpay for far-out bullish call options vs. options near the current price.
When skew jumps, it means:
big money is betting on an upside shock.
When skew jumps, it means:
big money is betting on an upside shock.
BREAKING: SciSpace just dropped a BioMed Agent that understands experiments, datasets, and clinical logic in a single intelligence layer.
Biology now has a system that thinks with you, the closest it’s come to autonomy.
Here's how it works + how to use it:
Biology now has a system that thinks with you, the closest it’s come to autonomy.
Here's how it works + how to use it:
Every major workflow in biomedical science is split across disconnected tools.
You write, search, model, analyze, and validate in separate places.
BioMed Agent → scispace.com/biomedical?via… merges all of it into one engine that works from the language of biology.
🎁 Discount Codes:
GNBIO20 : 20% off SciSpace [Premium/Advanced] monthly plans
GNBIO40 : 40% off SciSpace [Premium/Advanced] annual plans
You write, search, model, analyze, and validate in separate places.
BioMed Agent → scispace.com/biomedical?via… merges all of it into one engine that works from the language of biology.
🎁 Discount Codes:
GNBIO20 : 20% off SciSpace [Premium/Advanced] monthly plans
GNBIO40 : 40% off SciSpace [Premium/Advanced] annual plans
This is not a general research chatbot.
It is a purpose-built intelligence for molecular biology, genomics, pharmacology, and clinical reasoning.
A system that can execute workflows, not just describe them.
It is a purpose-built intelligence for molecular biology, genomics, pharmacology, and clinical reasoning.
A system that can execute workflows, not just describe them.
NEW: The lawyer and former government official who has just agreed to a $1M settlement with the US Treasury appears to be former George W Bush fundraiser and appointee James C Langdon of Texas, and the sanctioned oligarch appears to be Suleiman Kerimov.
The wife of the current CIO of the US Treasury (who came via DOGE) worked closely with Kerimov at his family office in Europe before coming to Texas to work for a VC firm funded with his money, during the same time Langdon was managing Kerimov's trust.
Kerimov's trust was seized by Treasury in 2022. OFAC also just struck a deal with investment platform IPI Partners for soliciting Kerimov's money post sanctions.
Links--including to my previous reporting on Corcos and Kerimov --below.
There's no indication that Corcos' wife is part of any investigations as of now, but seems possible there are possible conflicts of interest. Corcos omitted his wife's own venture capital firm from his disclosures when brought on by DOGE. He owns a medical tech company with surgeon general nominee Casey Means.
Langdon was known for repping terror link accused Saudis while being close to Bush.
The wife of the current CIO of the US Treasury (who came via DOGE) worked closely with Kerimov at his family office in Europe before coming to Texas to work for a VC firm funded with his money, during the same time Langdon was managing Kerimov's trust.
Kerimov's trust was seized by Treasury in 2022. OFAC also just struck a deal with investment platform IPI Partners for soliciting Kerimov's money post sanctions.
Links--including to my previous reporting on Corcos and Kerimov --below.
There's no indication that Corcos' wife is part of any investigations as of now, but seems possible there are possible conflicts of interest. Corcos omitted his wife's own venture capital firm from his disclosures when brought on by DOGE. He owns a medical tech company with surgeon general nominee Casey Means.
Langdon was known for repping terror link accused Saudis while being close to Bush.
“Catch up” apparently means “before, when I came clean, I was lying. But now I’m super telling the truth… also I am CIA.” — @patrickbyrne
Well, that certainly raises questions!
Here are mine🧵
Well, that certainly raises questions!
Here are mine🧵
(1) The title of the July 2023 inaugural Capital Times Magazine article is “DHS Domestic Extremist #1 Comes Clean.” It’s 99 pages. I’ve read it a few times.
“I am not a spy; I have never worked with the CIA.”
You said in your recent interview with Emerald that that was a lie.
“I am not a spy; I have never worked with the CIA.”
You said in your recent interview with Emerald that that was a lie.
(1a) Question: What else did you lie about when you “came clean” in 2023? What about the stories you told before 2023? “How DJT Lost the Election” parts 1.1-5… How much of that story was true? (Also, where is part 1.2?) Deep Rig, book and movie — same question? How much of your J6 Committee testimony was truthful?
Hallelujah. The IMF has recognized that China's weak real exchange rate is a problem, and that it has contributed to China's export surplus and growing trade tensions. From @KeithBradsher in the NYT
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The IMF has lagged on this issue, not led ... and it still isn't quite calling for a nominal appreciation (though Georgieva may have hinted at the need for nominal appreciation to offset inflation differentials). The EU Chamber is more explicit (from the FT)
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The IMF's formal press statement attributes the Yuan's real depreciation to inflation differentials (nominal moves v the USD also played a role in 22/23)
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3/ imf.org/en/news/articl…
The highway that connects Caracas to the Carribean coast and Simon Bolívar airport are central to how the Chavista regime plans to counter any US military operation in Venezuela 1/
The plan announced a couple of weeks ago by Maduro seeks to maximize the defensive use of the mountains to the north and valley to the northwest of the capital that runs through the Cerro de Caracas range to the coastal region of La Guaira 2/
Regime propaganda has shown deployment of anti-aircraft artillery, SAM and MANPAD systems in this area with intention of countering the movement by air of US forces 3/
Remember your customers don’t stop shopping after Black Friday
They don’t stop opening emails
They don’t stop needing great products
So why would you stop showing up?
Here's 7 ways to apply those BFCM learnings to your marketing👇
They don’t stop opening emails
They don’t stop needing great products
So why would you stop showing up?
Here's 7 ways to apply those BFCM learnings to your marketing👇
1. Send Gift Guides All Year
Gifting isn’t just for the holidays.
People have birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, housewarmings, baby showers… life keeps happening. So keep those gift guides coming.
Try curating seasonal round-ups, like:
-“Spring Birthday Picks”
-“Housewarming Gifts They’ll Actually Use”
-“Unique Gifts for the Graduate”
Break it down further by adding “For Her” or “Under $50” to target specific buyers and make it easier for people to shop.
SAYSO nails this with their Valentine’s Day gift guide:
Gifting isn’t just for the holidays.
People have birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, housewarmings, baby showers… life keeps happening. So keep those gift guides coming.
Try curating seasonal round-ups, like:
-“Spring Birthday Picks”
-“Housewarming Gifts They’ll Actually Use”
-“Unique Gifts for the Graduate”
Break it down further by adding “For Her” or “Under $50” to target specific buyers and make it easier for people to shop.
SAYSO nails this with their Valentine’s Day gift guide:
2. Create Your Own Flash Sales
There’s a national day for almost everything now. Why not build a flash sale?
-If you sell coffee, don’t skip National Coffee Day
-If you sell pet accessories, you’ve got National Dog Day
These holidays might seem silly, but they give you a timely reason to email your list.
Here’s Jibby Coffee celebrating National Relaxation Day with a coupon code.
You can also create your own mini-events like a “Rainy Day Sale” or “Goodbye Winter Deals” to build excitement and urgency during the quieter months.
There’s a national day for almost everything now. Why not build a flash sale?
-If you sell coffee, don’t skip National Coffee Day
-If you sell pet accessories, you’ve got National Dog Day
These holidays might seem silly, but they give you a timely reason to email your list.
Here’s Jibby Coffee celebrating National Relaxation Day with a coupon code.
You can also create your own mini-events like a “Rainy Day Sale” or “Goodbye Winter Deals” to build excitement and urgency during the quieter months.
Donald Trump is in poor physical and mental health. #ThePresidentIsDying
@WhiteHouse @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @GOPGovs @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats @DemGovs If genetics hold true, Trump’s Alzheimer’s would be noted 8 years before death. Life expectancy per SSA: 88.7. Could be NOW.
@WhiteHouse @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @GOPGovs @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats @DemGovs If genetics hold true, Trump’s Alzheimer’s would be noted 8 years before death. Life expectancy per SSA: 88.7. Could be NOW.
Is Donald Trump taking the anti-Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi? Some signs he may be:
1. His badly bruised hand indicating IV infusions
2. His daytime sleepiness
3. His requirement MRIs
Medicine is improved since Trump’s father died of it. But not yet eradicated. Wealth is no shield.
1. His badly bruised hand indicating IV infusions
2. His daytime sleepiness
3. His requirement MRIs
Medicine is improved since Trump’s father died of it. But not yet eradicated. Wealth is no shield.
Donald Trump is a MASTER of projection. Whatever he is doing…he claims Biden did. For example, the stealing of classified documents. Or, the cheating of elections.
Now? He accused Biden of hiding his prostate cancer from the public. Is Trump’s administration HIDING HIS ILLNESS?
Now? He accused Biden of hiding his prostate cancer from the public. Is Trump’s administration HIDING HIS ILLNESS?
We need not only material, institutional, political, but also intellectual #DefenceReadiness.
W assistance of Klaus Welle I invited a group of wise women & men to a high-level discussion on the future of European defence & main challenges to creating a true European Defence Union
W assistance of Klaus Welle I invited a group of wise women & men to a high-level discussion on the future of European defence & main challenges to creating a true European Defence Union
How should European institutions develop in the area of defence? How to build a true European Defence Union? How to create a common defence market/production?
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What future for EU-Trans-Atlantic relations in defence? What role for Ukraine in future EU security architecture and what should be our long term strategy towards Russia?
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