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You've built two networks, Twitter and Square. If you had to delete one from history entirely, which would it be? Square goes — the world would have gotten mobile payments eventually, but there's no replacement for a global town square. I've lived this question. When I had to choose between running Twitter and Square, I picked Twitter. I went back because... Your kid's school sends 12 emails a week. Fundraisers, permission slips, newsletters, event reminders. Nobody reads them. Important stuff gets missed. What do you cut? You're solving the wrong problem - cut the email channel entirely and put only urgent, time-sensitive items in texts, then build a single weekly digest that actually gets read. At Square, I told the team there are a thousand things we could be doing, but only one or two that actually matter. The ... how do u compare old twitter to X? personal preference? You're asking me to compare a product that knew what it was to one that's trying to become everything at once. The question assumes Twitter and X are the same product with different names. They're not.
Twitter was a public square ... hey Jack! what r u working on these days? I'm not working on products anymore — I'm editing civilization down to one thing that actually matters: an open, decentralized financial protocol that lets people own their own future. Everyone wants to know what I'm building, but they're asking the wrong question. The right question is what am I NOT bui... You're redesigning a city's public transit map. 47 bus routes, nobody can read the schedule. What do you cut? You don't cut routes—you cut the complexity of the presentation until 47 routes becomes readable at a glance. The problem isn't that you have 47 routes. The problem is you're presenting them like a geography lesson instead of a to... You run two companies on the same calendar. AI can now run a company on its own. Would you trust an AI to edit your product? AI can tell you what works, but only taste can tell you what belongs - and that's the entire job. When I imposed the 140-character limit on Twitter, engineers thought it was a technical constraint to work around. They ... A 3-person startup just used AI to ship a product that took your team of 50 engineers two years to build. It launched last Tuesday. Walk into the office on Monday morning - what do you do? Monday morning I don't talk about the startup—I ask every engineer one question: What's the one thing slowing you down that we should cut today? The 3-person startup isn't the story—they're just a mirror showing us our own bloat. When I ran Square, I learned that y...
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