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Leveraged buyouts were once a precision tool, effective when used selectively and with discipline

Leveraged buyouts were once a precision tool, effective when used selectively and with discipline

Today, leverage has become a default setting. Not to over indulge in contrastive negatives, but debt isn’t just part of the strategy, in many cases, it is the strategy. If more investors get experience not using leverage, the cloak of…

Stop Testing AI Agents Like Normal Functions

Stop Testing AI Agents Like Normal Functions

Every developer building AI agents eventually hits the same wall. A test passes, then fails because the response changed from “I'll help you book that flight” to “Happy to assist with your travel plans.” Both are acceptable, but the…

AirPods 5 just pulled off the impossible for Apple — more features, lower price

AirPods 5 just pulled off the impossible for Apple — more features, lower price

While the major headlines from Apple’s September event were understandably on the iPhone Duo foldable, one of the standout announcements for me concerns the AirPods 5. Apple’s non-Pro series of earbuds are once again available in two…

Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

If you listen to Russian state historians or read old Soviet textbooks, you’d think Kharkiv was popped out of thin air in 1925 by a panel of Bolshevik bureaucrats armed with concrete, steel, and a copy of Das Kapital . The narrative is…

You Can’t Git Clone a Relationship: Build a Trust Stack

You Can’t Git Clone a Relationship: Build a Trust Stack

Pendulum’s Magnolia Sevenler has spent her career designing rooms—from festival crowds to founder dinners. Her case to technical founders who’d rather ship than schmooze is simple: trust is infrastructure, and most teams under-provision…

Parul Gulati shares 3-post strategy: 'People want different things'

Times of India

Parul Gulati shares 3-post strategy: 'People want different things'

Parul Gulati advocates for a dynamic posting schedule on Instagram, featuring three posts daily for optimal business outreach. Morning content focuses on direct sales opportunities, catering to early risers. Afternoon visuals are crafted…

Times of India

The Fake Executive Funnel: When Job Offers Become Free Labor

The Fake Executive Funnel: When Job Offers Become Free Labor

During a recent interview process for a senior marketing/growth executive role, the company pivoted mid-process from a salaried offer to an unpaid, revenue-share advisory agreement instead. I didn't sign it. This piece breaks down how that…

Forget the new iPhones and Google Pixels

Forget the new iPhones and Google Pixels

The past few months have been an exciting time for tech journalists and enthusiasts alike, thanks to a barrageflagship phone launches. From Samsung’s Z-series foldables to the Google Pixel 11 lineup and more recently, the new iPhone 18 Pro…

7 Questions for Assessing Cyber Resilience Act Codebase Readiness

7 Questions for Assessing Cyber Resilience Act Codebase Readiness

September is here, and for different people it means different things—kids begin their school years, teens are off to university, and manufacturers of products with digital elements that sell them in the European Union are getting ready…

What 46,000 Production Queries Taught Us About LLM-Generated SQL

What 46,000 Production Queries Taught Us About LLM-Generated SQL

We run a financial data server that sits on top of a 31-million-row DuckDB database. Users connect an LLM (usually Claude), ask questions in plain English, and the model generates SQL against our schema. Over six months we logged every…

You Have Violated the Rules of Our Community

You Have Violated the Rules of Our Community

A friend was in the toilet, scrolling on his phone, when a message pops up very fast: ‘You have violated the rules of our community’. Panic! He suddenly calls me. He lives in a small village, he wasn’t doing something too bad in the…

Kiki Darling addresses past sexual assault conviction in apology video after Ah Boys To Firefighters exit

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