Cool Things - August 5, 2026
Listening to the new Kim Gordon album to see if I want to see her live (leaning towards no, even though I thoroughly enjoy Sonic Youth) and processing emails
From Mail
- The Three Questions Every Magazine Founder Should Be Able to Answer – also applies to startups
- ‘Every founder is a marketer whether they like it or not, and this is the cheat sheet for the part most of us are winging.’ – from Matt Verlaque’s ‘Midweek Mashup #36’ in why you should lean about human nature. But I’m still that guy who doesn’t link to Twitter. (So dissapointed the Laravel community stayed there, but that’s a whole other thing.)
- 12 Factor Companies – did I cheat and find a person’s tweek as a substack? Yes, yes I did.
- Sales is like golf… – Matt also linked to a guy who screenshot this comment from Hacker News and didn’t credit it. I know, y’all are shocked at such a thing on Twitter.

