There are a million books on how to become successful and what entrepreneurs do/don't do, and it's kind of attributed to that. Whether it's waking up early, meditating, or other practices.

But what do you think makes them where they are?

I was scrolling through X today when one of my X friends shared screenshots of two employees who recently moved from Anthropic to OpenAI.

We had an era when people were leaving OpenAI for Anthropic in large numbers, Sam Altman was becoming the second most-hated Mark Zuckerberg, and Anthropic was attracting talent from OpenAI.

Now the direction seems to be changing.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the difference between testing a product and validating it.

When you're building software, there are so many things you can measure. Does the functionality work? Are the calculations correct? Can users complete the workflow? Are the security controls working as intended?

Those are important questions, and you can spend months getting them right.

But there's another question that technical testing can't fully answer:

Today, I came across an article reporting a rise in DuckDuckGo usage as more people boycott Google services.

Sometimes, while working in tech support, I also come across people who buy de-Googled phones because they want nothing to do with this giant anymore.