Saul Sutcher 🤓

Saul Sutcher 🤓

@saulsutcher.com

Entrepreneur, Nerd, Dad, Designer, Product Leader, Serial Hobbyist. Currently exploring how to help impact orgs scale themselves. www.SaulSutcher.com

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Toys have been losing kids to screens for years. We think that's a winnable fight. I'm excited to introduce MODO — a new startup building a new generation of toys good enough to actually compete with screens. Our first toy is a car I've spent the last year working on. Incredibly challenging.

The verbose and overly technical outputs from Opus are a real threat to Anthropic right now. While a seemingly innocuous problem which might just be "annoying" it's slowing down workflows in real ways. When an AI can't communicate effectively everything starts getting messy.

Momentum is such a driving factor in success. The scientific definition helps underscore the components of momentum. Momentum = mass x veolcity. Momentum has a direction and a magnitude. The bigger the team, or the faster you move, the harder it is to change that momentum!

In times of uncertainty, I've found myself turning to a strategy we often use when building products -- always looking to decrease single points of failure. fFrom sources of income to parenting to child care the more uncertainty the more you want to have a back up plan!

Being a startup founder is tough. You know you're going to encounter some bumps... but sometimes you hit one so big you almost fly off the horse. If you've ever experienced that, you know it's beyond just thinking your way out of it. It can feel demoralizing. #Startups #Entrepreneurship

When Twitter died, I found my online community was torn apart and thrown to various corners of the internet. Some stayed with X, others left for Bluesky, some just quit social media altogether. For me, each platform has become more niche, which is a challenge!

ChatGPT is slowly losing the throne for my most used AI. Most complex tasks I ask of an AI, I do across multiple platforms. Almost always ChatGPt and Claude. But also Perplexity and Manus. This week, Claude has been hands down beating that gpt on takes I’ve been throwing at them.

And I’m not talking about a marginally better response. I’m talking about things like a Claude nailing the design and build of a landing page after a single prompt and a few background docs. Whereas I spent over an hour with chat gpt and still never really got what I wanted.

I grew my twitter following from 0-35k in under a year. The secret? I just kept posting. Throughout that journey the number of tweets I had almost always correlated 1:1 with the number of followers I had.

And for the most part I posted for myself. Lessons I learned. Nuggests of wisdom I picked up. Insights i uncovered Was it fun building an audience? Absolutely. But I actually found the process of posting to be even more rewarding. It helped me put down on paper the things I was thinking and feeling

Don’t get me wrong, I love Asana. It’s my preferred task-management tool and have used it for over a decade (and will continue to). But I do think they could work on both how they’re incorporating and talking about AI features.

One of my biggest accomplishments last year was a failed startup I cofounder called Pulse. We had a strong hypothesis. Worked quickly to validate it. And when it was clear the signal wasn’t there, we shut it down. It’s easy to cling to ideas for too long. #StartupSky #Founders #Startups

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All this thinking is awesome. Right? I mean, didn’t the smartest people in history spend most of their time thinking. But then you realize… wow. All I’ve done is think, and I haven’t actually done anything.

Then you write it down. And rethink it. Maybe you type it into an AI and have the AI do some thinking. Then when you think you’ve thunk it all, you think you have a breakthrough. And you need to rethink everything.

I’ve been spending A LOT of time working with different AI tools lately. Most of my experiences fall somewhere on this spectrum: --- Wow, this really is the future  <––>  This doesn’t quite work yet ---

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When it doesn’t work—man, is it frustrating. You’ve been lulled into thinking this thing can do anything, so when it makes a simple mistake or just won’t grasp the concept you’re asking about, you’re reminded there’s still a ways to go.

I’ve been spending A LOT of time working with different AI tools lately. Most of my experiences fall somewhere on this spectrum: --- Wow, this really is the future  <––>  This doesn’t quite work yet ---

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✋ Stop building what users ask for. The feature request is just the tip of the iceberg. Dive deeper - the real problem lurking below could unlock solutions that transform your product. Great product managers solve problems. Average ones just add features. #ProductManagement #UX #Innovation

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✋ Stop building what users ask for. The feature request is just the tip of the iceberg. Dive deeper - the real problem lurking below could unlock solutions that transform your product. Great product managers solve problems. Average ones just add features. #ProductManagement #UX #Innovation

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Ah, the classic "We'll add design after we have all the bugs" approach. It's like building a house and saying, "We'll add the doors once we have a roof!"

I talk to a lot of early stage startups. Almost all of them have the same problem - perspective. They’ve gotten too close to it all! I like the term they’re “in the soup”. Sometimes you have to figure out how to get that perspective. Other times you might need outside help. #Startups

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Great designs or experiences evoke feelings. How does your product make people feel? #UXDesign #EmotionalDesign #ProductDesign #Emotion #UX