CTOx Insights
Lessons from scaling teams, raising funds, and making mistakes.
Empathy Is The Hard Problem
4 Mar 2026 · 1 min read · AI
Philip K. Dick saw it in 1968. Intelligence was never the hard problem. Empathy was....
Your Brain Has a Bandwidth Limit
24 Feb 2026 · 2 min read · Leadership
Most founders treat their brain like a server — always on, always available, always processing. But pretending your cognitive bandwidth is unlimited isn't a strategy — it's a countdown to bad decisions....
Restraint Is a Superpower
14 Feb 2026 · 2 min read · Startups
With the rise of AI coding the barrier to building is basically gone. That's made the skill of knowing what not to build more important than ever....
The Rebuild Is The Strategy
10 Feb 2026 · 2 min read · Leadership
I was airlifted off a mountain in Switzerland. The doctor said twelve weeks recovery. Four weeks later, I was back in the wind tunnel....
The Engineers Who Thrive With AI
28 Jan 2026 · 2 min read · AI
If your engineers are threatened by AI tooling, you've got the wrong engineers. The best startup engineers thrive with it — because they already understood something most people are only now figuring out: the code was never the point....
Investors Don't Care About Your Tech
21 Jan 2026 · 2 min read · Fundraising
They care about your insight into the market. Your experience navigating it. Your judgment on where it's heading....
What Makes Software Defensible in an AI World?
9 Jan 2026 · 3 min read · AI
If an AI can generate your core offering from scratch every time a user needs it, you don't have a product. You have a prompt....
Strategy Should Compound
6 Jan 2026 · 1 min read · Scaling
The best strategies aren't about hitting targets. They're about making future targets easier to hit....
Healthy Teams Outperform
3 Jan 2026 · 2 min read · Scaling
So much of workplace performance comes from physical health. Good sleep. Proper hydration. Controlled blood sugar. These aren't wellness buzzwords....
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