Eric Ries

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

You can get them all for free on his website (as long as it stays up):
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Tom Lehrer was the absolute GOAT. May he rest in peace.

Among the many awesome things he did, near the end of his life, he put all of his work in the public domain, including music, lyrics and his performance notes.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Anil, thanks, very much appreciated!

A quick @skylight.social update ✨

If you’re a creator posting videos to Skylight ⬇️ drop a comment! I want to come follow you!!

Shout out to all of the people who helped us troubleshoot sign-in earlier 💕

Y’all are literally the backbone of this operation
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YouTube video by The Eric Ries Show How GitLab scaled to 30M users with transparency, remote work, and the ultimate employee handbook

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In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and Executive Chair of GitLab—one of the world’s most radically transparent and values-driven software companies.

YouTube video by The Eric Ries Show The playbook for fixing toxic culture, pointless friction and broken systems | Bob Sutton (Stanford)

I love talking with @ericries.bsky.social. Eric wrote the blockbuster "The Lean Startup", launched Long-Term Stock Exchange , and so much more. We both believe companies can thrive financially and innovate, and treat employees and customers well, at the same time.

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I love talking with @ericries.bsky.social. We both believe that capitalism and caring about people (rather than acting like a selfish asshole) are compatible and desirable goals.

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YouTube video by The Eric Ries Show The playbook for fixing toxic culture, pointless friction and broken systems | Bob Sutton (Stanford)

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In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by @bobsutton.net, organizational psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of several influential books on leadership, behavior, and workplace culture, including his latest: The Friction Project.

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YouTube video by The Eric Ries Show The pitch that changed air travel forever: $3B in preorders and the return of supersonic flight

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We cover:

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• Why trying to disprove your idea is a founder's superpower
• The accidental pivot: How Boomless cruise came about
• Blake’s “confusion list,” a practice to gain clarity
• And more!

What does it take to challenge a century-old status quo in aviation? In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company on a mission to bring back supersonic air travel—sustainably and affordably.

Incredibly grateful to @jay.bsky.team and the entire @bsky.app team for building the AT Protocol and taking on the burden of building an ENTIRE social network just to prove that open social can work.

Thanks for shouting out @skylight.social!

We stand on the shoulders of giants 🙌🏽

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In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Maria Colacurcio, Co-Founder and CEO of Syndio, a workplace equity analytics platform. Syndio helps companies close pay gaps and build high-trust organizations.

deep cut indeed

YouTube video by Apple TV Murderbot — An Inside Look | Apple TV+

attn please, here is some further Murderbot footage to enjoy incl the definitely best little moment in All Systems Red

Definitely. I think of it as a special (and recently worse) case of the fact that you can always boost your individual OKR if you borrow against the huge asset which is the company’s trustworthiness

Has anyone created a video yet based on the idea that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to Narkina 5?

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Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America? A democracy for some is no democracy at all.

"I write this letter as the sun rises, hoping that the suspension of my rights will raise alarm bells that yours are already in jeopardy."

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YouTube video by The Eric Ries Show Lessons on co-founding Twitter, Medium and Blogger with Ev Williams

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In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Ev Williams—someone whose work has profoundly shaped the modern internet. Ev co-founded Twitter, created Medium, and before all that, built Blogger, the original blogging platform.