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scalemaxx

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About scalemaxx

Working to help small teams punch above their weight.

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    What does taste generally mean these days?

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    Comment #48070838

    Is this similar to Polsia which is now doing over $8M ARR similar model?

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    Comment #47202735

    I use Obsidian with my Claude (and Codex) but not sure what additional value the CLI would provide since it's just markdown files. What am I missing that a CLI provides for AI? And…

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    Comment #46974039

    Thanks! Sent your way.

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    Comment #46968735

    Yes indeed! What's the best place to reach out?

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    Comment #46967050

    Do you do podcast interviews? Would love to dig into the no-VC/hypergrowth path as that's what I'm all about.

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    Comment #46967041

    I'm curious about your book journey. Sounds like having a big audience and pre-existing list really helps! How did you go about building that audience and list, and what helped the…

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    Comment #46939823

    Scalebrate: https://scalebrate.com An alliance / membership network of small companies that are scaling big by leveraging tools, systems, and processes. Together we will all scale …

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    Comment #46902185

    I agree - my reference to the 1990s VP of IT was looking at the post, which is about on-premise data centers... not the cloud. I don't think there's a speed advantage for on-premis…

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    Comment #46901358

    Everything comes circle. Back in my day, we just called it a "data center". Or on-premise. You know, before the cloud even existed. A 1990s VP of IT would look at this post and say…

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    Comment #46796789

    A rotary phone and blinking modem lights, a nod to the past and then present? Or just blinken lights.

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    Comment #46796765

    Wonder how well their motto aged: "More opportunities. Smaller government. Stronger and safer families"

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    Comment #46796750

    Curious to see how the Favicon will change too!

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    Comment #46796743

    Love that the Favicon for the blog is the Internet Explorer logo. Will that change?

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    Comment #46704290

    It's a mirror of what's happening everywhere. It has become easier than ever to create something whether that's content or an app. But because of that it's harder than ever to get …

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    Comment #46704252

    The key issue here and in many similar cases is for governments to define what they mean by sovereignty. Because if it means not only ownership but also keep it out of outsiders co…

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    Comment #46691319

    In installed Gemini as an extension in VS Code and it kept wanting to index all my files. Still trying to figure out what it was doing outside of the VS Code folder I had set it to…

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    Comment #46687547

    How sovereign is a data center owned by a US firm? What does sovereign mean in this context?

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    Comment #46684460

    Sounds similar to the multiple evolution paths to crabs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation