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Pascal Laliberté
@pascallaliberte.ca
Customer research for founders & PMs https://sharpen.page Creator https://readwith.app
"It’s a little hard to trust something you can’t look in the eyes" Dramatized in the movie Hidden Figures, that’s the message John Glenn responded with when thanking Mission Control for having a real person check the go/no-go numbers, not just a "hunk of metal" IBM mainframe. +1 Skin-in-the-game
"They're used to worrying about it, they're used to being upcharged. When you're this much cheaper than everyone else it's suspicious." @mariyadelano.bsky.social on @asmartbear.com's podcast about Userlist's pricing youtu.be/7gJvwR78ot8?...
E11 w/ Mariya Delano: How to Fix a SaaS Trial-to-Paid Conversion Problem
YouTube video by Jason Cohen
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Current fervour for agents and against hiring is getting out of touch. It reminds me of the discourse of supposed inevitability of Agile as the answer to most problems with tech, back in the day. You might end up with a bunch of agents, but you might not liking working there in the end.
Draw-your-own-UI is such a good idea for a drawing app
Marco Arment@marcoarment.bsky.social · last wk.Fineliner, my delightful notebook app for your iPad, iPhone, and iPhone Duo, is out now in the App Store! Definitely the most fun I've ever had making an app. I hope you enjoy it. :) Best on iPhone Duo and iPad. Apple Pencil recommended!
A founder friend at my co-working space has recently hired a developer. The employee works full-time. The pay is modest but steady. All the code is AI-written, which the founder steered (he's not a dev) for months already. But he needed to delegate driving all that process.
He played my favourite role modelling a leader in all of tv and movies as Captain Picard. RIP Sirpatstew 🫡
𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜@davidjones.social · last wk.RIP Patrick Stewart playbill.com/article/belo...
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A portable reference display is a strong-enough claim for some high-end PRO users. A glowing logo, a beefed-up portable, premium even in its weight, that's a strong-enough offer for all high-end PRO users. The touch screen? Would it be a thickness issue on other MacBooks?
Travis Turner has no other match, as a speaker, to anyone else in the Ruby world. I think he might be outmatched outside the Ruby world too. Anyway, one of my favourite speakers of all time.
Gruber and others seem to be evaluating the Duo as an iPhone. Buttons in the wrong place, weird one-handed operation… I’d like to see if someone else will review it as the first real, top-grade, _pocketable computer_.
Pascal Laliberté@pascallaliberte.ca · 2w agoNow Apple is really not going to talk to Gruber daringfireball.net/2026/10/the_...
Hey #Ottawa. If you're a business owner or early in your #startup idea, and the following questions are on your mind, I'm running a workshop next Tuesday Oct 27 at 6pm. - Should every conversation be about sales? - What causes people to buy after a back-and-forth? www.meetup.com/founders-lab...
Customer Mind-Reading: How Your Buyers Choose, Tue, Oct 27, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**Host:** Pascal Laliberté **Topic:** Design Your Message for Impact **Description:** Pascal’s workshops fill up fast, and was our most popular last season. This workshop i
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I'm overjoyed to hear @mark-carney.bsky.social visibly improving his French at a fast pace. It's no easy task, and it's not a cheap trick for a politician to pull this off. When's the last time this pace of improvement has occurred over the tenure of a notable statesman in Canada? It's remarkable.
Reading this, I felt like the best-selling iPad in 2 years will be a foldable. No front screen, sturdy but thin.
Pascal Laliberté@pascallaliberte.ca · 2w agoNow Apple is really not going to talk to Gruber daringfireball.net/2026/10/the_...
If you're a railway customer, you need to jump on this immediately. "We strongly recommend that you immediately roll all environment variables, including any API keys, stored in Railway" blog.railway.com/p/security-d...
Security Disclosure: Wednesday October 21st | Railway Blog
Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention
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You want to add AI to your app. Consider that AI is both an efficiency innovation and an empowering innovation. Efficiency innovation tries to say "hey my app is worthwhile because you can do more, more quickly". But they reply: "why not use the AI directly?" 💥 Make new apps 💥
"It's for everyone". That was the positioning mistake then, still a mistake now. "Everyone" = no one in particular. When you get the first output from an LLM, remember that it was trained to please everyone, so no one in particular. So by default, LLM output needs adjusting.
You might want to build a perfect product, but rare are the people in search of hypothetical perfection. Instead, people move from one "good enough" to another "good enough". Until it becomes an "enough is enough". That's when you suggest your product. everyonewantsprogress.com/0140-good-en...
Good Enough, Misunderstood
Enthusiasm for our product is normal. We know its features, we know its quality.But our main competitor is the idea of good enough, and we don’t seem to understand it too well.
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Had a great time at @xoruby.com Montreal yesterday! Good presentations and conversations, and when I got home I still got to read my son a bedtime story 😄 (he was doing his best to delay things 🙈)
If you feel at risk, you'll use generative tools liberally. But if you have something to gain, you might do the opposite of others. You'll use AI here, but not there. You'll write your own posts, speak in your voice, take your time. It's time for culture. everyonewantsprogress.com/0139-disrupt...
Disruption, Vulnerability, and Doing the Opposite
You’ve been wondering, on repeat, how these generative tools are going to affect your work. You use them for your first drafts. You even trust them for full outputs. You wonder if you even need to be ...
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Most depressions are best interpreted as immigrations. Leaving a familiar place behind, figuring out the new reality in this new place. A friend, who immigrated here, told me that the majority of immigrants go through a depression. It made me realize the normalcy of depression. It's a passage.
NYC’s @xoruby.com is happening on Saturday 10/10 9am-5pm. I have an extra ticket available for free from an attendee who can no longer make it. Message here or DM
Excited to share I'm speaking at @xoruby.com on October 17th. Hope to see you there! www.xoruby.com/event/montre...
Montréal
Bonjour, Ruby.
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To the people saying "No one is going to vibe code their own CRM", you're 100% wrong. We are seeing that as a cancellation reason a few times per month, and we have extremely low-tech customers. Not saying SaaS is going away, but to act like AI won't replace some of it is silly.
The Toronto vibes were great and that was before we pulled out a huge stack of cash to distribute. 🤣 Join us! - Oct 10: NYC - Oct 17: Montréal www.xoruby.com/events/