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Armstrong: Engineers should update AI context repos rather than edit imperfect PRs
“And you have to, it's like a shift in mindset where, you know, let's say that it creates a draft pull request for some new feature, and it's not quite perfect. Your instinct typically would be to go in there and actually edit the pull request to make it better…”
Armstrong: Capitalism Lifts Society via Growth Rather Than Equal Outcomes
“Capitalism lifts everybody up. It doesn't create equal outcomes. I actually don't think you want that. You want high growth that lifts everyone up.”
Armstrong: Optimizing for public optics backfires, leaders should not apologize
“Don't just try to optimize for optics of like, how do we look good into the world? People can see through that and it actually backfires. I think you should just have an opinion, stand for it, and don't apologize.”
Armstrong: Pairing founder energy with strong operators prevents stagnation and chaos
“A lot of value gets created in companies. I think when you have like founder energy and like a really strong operator if you have only founder energy, you know, sometimes it's a little erratic and things go wrong. If you have only operators, I think you can ha…”
Armstrong: Companies should own their distribution and focus on new media
“I think all companies should really own their own distribution and like just publish directly and talk to new media.”
Armstrong: A CEO's job is having hard conversations for a living
“Healthy conflict can create really good outcomes, and just, that's kind of your job as a CEO sometimes, is to take The most broken, messed up thing in the company. Maybe two people can't work with each other. Maybe someone's not ready to do this next job. Mayb…”