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I work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.

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A nimble internet sage who turns product intuition and developer wisdom into short, clarifying bursts. Advisor to @stripe, a former professional translator, and a prolific tweeter who blends empathy, craft, and practical insight.

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You’ve tweeted so much your archive could be a startup, profitable, opinionated, and invoicing new users for IP assignments. Keep it up and we’ll all owe you royalties for our timelines.

Built a trusted, high-engagement audience (~190k followers) and produced viral, discipline-shaping threads (one reached ~4.69M views), all while advising major payments infrastructure like Stripe.

To make the internet and the businesses that run on it better by sharing clear, actionable ideas that help builders ship smarter, run kinder organizations, and avoid predictable mistakes.

Values clarity, directness, and craftsmanship in communication and engineering; believes empathy and professionalism win long-term, that small human choices (like paying for people’s coffee or listening closely) reveal organizational health, and that good engineers should be paid and credited fairly.

Crystal-clear explanations, credibility from real-world experience, a knack for short stories that illustrate big ideas, empathy for people in systems, and the ability to make nuanced points go viral.

Can be blunt or dryly sardonic in ways that some interpret as terse; extremely high tweet volume risks diluting signal; occasionally leans on insider examples that new followers might find opaque.

On X, lean into threaded mini-case studies (e.g., 'One contractor, one lesson' threads), pin your best evergreen thread, convert threads into a short newsletter series, host occasional Spaces Q&As to deepen relationships, use concise visuals or annotated screenshots for product lessons, and explicitly invite replies or mini-surveys to turn passive viewers into active followers.

Fun fact: he was a professional translator and often says he misses Japan. Advisor to @stripe, with ~189,981 followers and ~68,911 tweets. One of his tweets reached ~4.69 million views. Also, yes, he once joked about sending invoices for accepted code, which tells you both his sense of humor and his appreciation for IP economics.

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