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Privacy Erosion Isn't a Bug. It's the Business Model.

I was quoted in the New York Post on AI and privacy. The hard truth: data is the asset, convenience is the pitch, and nine-figure fines are rounding errors.

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I Can't Stop Taking Things Apart

I've always been the person who signs up for a product and immediately starts thinking about what I'd change. So I started writing it down.

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Reddit Ads Is Leaking Your Data to Other Advertisers

Three separate incidents where Reddit Ads support agents shared other advertisers' PII in my chat sessions, documented over one week. Screenshots included.

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Product Leaders Who Can't Code Are Becoming Middle Management

The gap between product leaders who build and those who don't is now a career-defining chasm. AI tools eliminated every excuse. Here's the math.

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Why I Run Five Products Instead of One

Conventional wisdom says focus. I'm running five products simultaneously. Here's why the portfolio approach makes more sense than ever for solo founders.

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Impact Over Extraction

The barrier to doing good isn't resources. It's priorities. Cameo raised $194M. Takes 70%. Gives 0% to charity. PassItOn takes 0%. Gives 100%. What you build reveals what you value.

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Wrong Metrics

90% of startups celebrate acquisition like it's the Olympics. Wrong game. The real enterprise value is loyalty. Making your product non-negotiable in their routine. That's the entire game.

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Execution Beats Credentials

Fancy resumes are historical documents. The market reinvents itself every 18 months. I bet on intellectual horsepower and bias for action. Every. Single. Time.

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Build, Don't Brief

If you can't build, you're becoming irrelevant. Period. Ideas that took months now take 48 hours. While you're in your third alignment meeting, someone else shipped the product.

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Pricing Lessons

Zero to millions of daily users. Made every pricing mistake possible. Underpriced. Overpriced. Wrong model entirely. You don't learn pricing in a classroom. You learn it by bleeding revenue. Full stop.

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Fighting for the Underdog

First-gen immigrant. Worked CVS graveyard shifts while putting myself through college. Character is built through pressure, not polish. The system intimidates people without resources. So I built FreeDemandLetter.

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