We get so obsessed with shipping shiny features for the next pitch deck that we forget the oven actually needs to bake bread.

Daft! And very strangely true. I recognised several moments and events in the story

Well written. This applies much further than just equity raising startups.

MCP for browser automation is interesting because Safari's WebKit engine is the one most AI agents can't easily drive (Playwright and Puppeteer are Chromium-first). Having an MCP server for it could fill a real gap in cross-browser testing for agent workflows.

This is inkblot test. Some will read it and see fundamental irrationality. Others will read it and say “it could have worked out if a couple of things had gone their way.”

The story could be change with just a few sentences in the middle that would turn it into the founding myth of how Globoven took 100% of the market for energy efficient portable emergency ovens for NATO military use.

The more I read into it, the more pain memory flashbacks I got. Bravo

my favorite blog post of all time... this should go in a museum

Oh, that one hits hard on the nail.

Brilliant. Brutal.