the most important thing in most products is the boring building block underneath. the receipt for hiring tools. the dispatch for delivery. the signed signature for trust. curious which one you think your category is missing. drop the category and the primitive. one line on why it would change the shape of the work if it existed. i am building one for professional credentialing right now. happy to share what we are learning.

we opened tam network this morning. the front page now says LIVE.

few quick facts about what's there:

i've been thinking a lot lately about how professional networks have evolved. and where they haven't.

curious to hear from this community: what's the one specific linkedin moment that made you say "there has to be a better way"? maybe it was:

asking because the resume version of this is always inflated. but the real version is usually a 50-line script, a one-page memo, a saved chat with a customer, a screen share where someone watched you debug something live.

what was yours? the small piece of evidence that, if someone saw it, would tell them everything about what you can do.

part of why we built TAM is i kept meeting people whose resumes told me almost nothing about whether they could actually do the work, and whose actual work told me everything in five minutes.

curious, no pressure: what's the last thing you actually shipped that you'd put on a receipts-style profile instead of a resume? could be a feature, a launch, a side project, a side hustle, a community you grew, anything where the proof is the doing.

this is partly research and partly therapy.

i'm building TAM because i hit a wall with linkedin around the time every cold message i got started with 'i hope this email finds you well' generated by chatgpt. but i've talked to enough people now to know everyone has a slightly different moment where they lost faith in the resume-and-headshot economy.