The Dutch company, founded in 2016, has grown from a €1M seed in 2024 to a €4.4M follow-on as government and security operators accelerate drone fleet deployments across Europe and the Middle East. AirHub, a Dutch drone operations software company, has raised €4.4M in a new round led by Keen Venture Partners. The company’s software is […]

If I were to share some thoughts on making a meaningful impact at work, Ben Kuhn’s post would be it. His essay had me nodding yes, yes!, and YES! throughout, and it’s written more eloquently than I ever could.

Don’t rely too much on permission or encouragement. […] instead of asking people for approval to go do something, you can just tell them what you intend to do (implicitly giving them space to object or course-correct if they feel strongly).

You can just do things.

Make success inevitable. There’s a huge difference between the following two operating modes:

1. My goal is to ship this project by the end of the month, so I’m going to get people started working on it ASAP.
2. My goal is to ship this project by the end of the month, so I’m going to list out everything that needs to get done by then, draw up a schedule working backwards from the ship date, make sure the critical path is short enough, make sure we have enough staffing to do anything, figure out what we’ll cut if the schedule slips, be honest about how much slop we need, track progress against the schedule and surface any slippage as soon as I see it, pull in people from elsewhere if I need them…

The hard part is being honest with yourself. I’ve often fallen into trap (1) because I’m afraid my plan will surface failure.

On taste:

I’ve noticed a lot of people underestimate their own taste, because they expect having good taste to feel like being very smart or competent or good at things. […] For this reason, the prompt I suggest here is: what does it seem like everyone else is mysteriously bad at?

Taste isn’t about being the best at something. It’s about slowly lifting the whole by leaving small things in better shape than you found them.

New York Times:
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim  —  One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when …

Nikkei Asia:
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation  —  PALO ALTO, California — The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even as the global tech …

The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security research firm called Mindgard sat down with a chatbot. The chatbot had been built by Doctronic, a health technology startup that had just become the first company in American history […]