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🐿️ Danger of Death - The Insanely Profitable Tech Newsletter

Squirrel Squadron Substack • 0 implied HN points • 09 Feb 26
🕹 Technology Risk management
  1. When software can cause physical harm, use multiple layers of automated and human checks and avoid risky release practices.
  2. Many teams apply safety-critical processes to low-risk products and end up polishing for months, which wastes time and yields diminishing returns.
  3. Focus your engineers on finding and building what users actually need and will pay for, rather than protecting against unlikely catastrophic scenarios.

S06 - EP 02 --> Pirates in the Navy: Recruiting the crew

Product Hustle Stack Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 14 Feb 26
💼 Business Risk management
  1. Hire for persistence, focus, and lateral thinking over pedigree or domain expertise; creative audacity and the ability to move fast are what win 0-to-1 work.
  2. Use a special-ops hiring loop that bypasses standard bureaucracy so the core team vets candidates and you hire people the team would follow into battle, then give them clear goals and CEO-like ownership.
  3. Treat recruiting as risk management: give the pirate team executive air cover and sovereignty, diplomatically manage navy egos to avoid sabotage, and don’t force early reintegration into regular processes.

The Firm Without Hands

Brave New Teams • 0 implied HN points • 01 Mar 26
💼 Business Risk management
  1. Organisations must codify accountability before letting AI make binding decisions. Authority, not raw model capability, is the real constraint on autonomy.
  2. Delegating actions to AI shifts bureaucracy into code — you need logging, audits, access controls and kill switches — so oversight grows even as headcount falls. Companies that formalise these controls will gain safe speed, while those that don't risk scandal or paralysis.
  3. Power will be redistributed inside firms: some managers become governance engineers who write the rules, others become ceremonial validators; the real fight will be over who sets permissions and controls the logs, and regulators and customers will demand traceability.

You can be right and still lose money

Achee Alpha • 0 implied HN points • 01 Mar 26
💰 Finance Risk management
  1. Being right about an investment doesn’t guarantee you make money because timing, luck, and market moves can wipe you out before your thesis plays out.
  2. Size positions so you could survive being 2–3 years early or late and avoid using leverage on high-conviction ideas, since leverage turns patience into impossibility.
  3. Prioritize staying in the game over maximizing single bets by building portfolio rules and risk controls that let you be right again tomorrow.

Discontinuity Is Knocking on the Door. Now What?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 12 Mar 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Risk management
  1. Climate change is accelerating and will reshape every major life decision, so people need to start planning now.
  2. You should build a personal climate strategy to spot vulnerabilities in your home, investments, and community and to make smarter decisions under uncertainty.
  3. A concise two-hour live class teaches a practical system for making that plan, includes a brief Q&A and recording, and offers a few discounted spots.
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