Pascal Laliberté

@pascallaliberte@ruby.social
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Building:
đź“– https://readwith.club (Read together)

Weekly article:
✍🏼 https://everyonewantsprogress.com (soft skills for software creatives)

On a mission to rescue products:
✍🏼 https://sharpen.page/ten (Buyer Psychology)

Websitehttps://pascallaliberte.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/pascallaliberte

Let’s say you were to invent a universe with its laws.

Would you have tweaked it such that:
- matter is empty, nothing essentially touches
- whole galaxies might contain a handful of interesting systems
- 100 trillion synapses required for intelligence

Counter intuitive scales!

Truth is in the asymmetries.

I’m listening to The Mom Test, almost half way in, and you get the sense that:

- most customer interviews produce fluff
- most answers don’t give the whole truth
- most people don’t want the interview

You’re digging for rare gold.

May the Schwartz be with you.

Spaceballs 2!

Friends:

I'm running a series of videos in the next couple weeks called "Happy to Report", for a bit of public accountability building ReadWith.

âś… Met my two goals from last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVdMNkFJts0

You should run videos like these too BTW, it'd be fun.
#happytoreport

Happy to Report, June 11, 2025

YouTube

Two takes:

Liquid Glass is so lusciously pretty that it might make people look more at their phones.

Liquid Glass is so life-like that it might make people want to open a door and go outside or read a book. In real life, you'd never tolerate small white text on a window.

We'll see!

"Lazy marketers try to buy enrollment with flashy ads. The best marketers earn enrollment by seeking people who want the change being offered."

-- This is Marketing, Seth Godin

When does GitHub, or Cursor, or Windsurf, all tools with git integration, start doing this?

For each commit, if an LLM was used, crediting the LLM model as one of the authors.

A hallmark of iOS 26 design seems to be the consolidation of what was previously multiple toolbar buttons into a "…" button that shows a menu.

Which looks fine, I guess, but some VERY common actions are now an additional tap away!

Safari is the worst offender. Want to switch tabs or close the current tab? The all-tabs view, previously the two-squares toolbar icon, is now buried in a menu, adding an extra tap and significant finger movement to possibly the most common action in Safari:

I surprised myself touting Ruby yesterday to two devs outside our sphere.

It’s not that I have doubts about Ruby.

I was surprised about myself. Just a few years back I was new to Ruby. Now I speak of it as a fluent native.

It’s a milestone I remember crossing with the English language too.

Consider publishing regularly around an idea. It’s the smallest "purchase" people will make when they sign up, because people buy into ideas.

You might also solve the timing problem.
https://everyonewantsprogress.com/0069-the-smallest-purchase-and-timing/

The Smallest Purchase, and Timing

The price of your product might be low, but it won’t sell.The size of your product might be small, but that won’t make it any more appealing.The impact of your product might be large, but even if the person isn’t ready yet, the timing isn’t right, you won’t even make that sale.