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Surviving and thriving as a bootstrapped solo founder and first-generation immigrant. My unfiltered lessons to shorten your path to success.
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I wasted an entire morning building what my new hire completed in twenty minutes (opens the original)
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Inside Our Early Access Run with Active Intelligence Wavelength 3.0 (opens the original)
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I sat across from Johanna, our Head of Customer at Ascendnce, at a local coffee shop. She pressed the heels of her hands into her eyes and let out a long breath."I just spent four hours moving data between Marketing automation software, Stripe, Eventbrite, and our CRM," she said. "I am turning into a human API."I felt a knot of familiar guilt form in my stomach because she reminded me of how it looked when I ran my analytics consultancy. Founders and business owners often build complex tech stac
Surviving the Silence: How I Almost Quit Before Building FareClaim for Sydney (opens the original)
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My AI Agent Pitched FareClaim to 108 Councillors. It Failed Horribly (opens the original)
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<img alt="Jason Tan stands thoughtfully in a dark home office surrounded by monitors displaying code. A large holographic projection on his desk maps out the failed FareClaim marketing campaign. A heavy bronze seal marked "State Revenue" crushes the central logic
How I Automated My Substack Internal Linking to Get My Sundays Back (opens the original)
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Every Sunday morning at 8 AM, I sit at my desk at home to write my Substack newsletter. This is my routine. The job is simple on paper. I write a candid post about building products, how to build AI agents, share our best prompts and even workflows.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XjBg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdeb72bb7-5327-40e0-9ba7-b1fbcba2a93e_1800x1
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