Tom Turcotte

@TomTurcotteTech

Mentored devs for 5+ years. Now building X Growth Engine full-time to fix my own social media struggle: authentic growth without endless scrolling.

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Joined January 2024

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Tom Turcotte
@TomTurcotteTech
Jan 12
I've spent the last 5 years mentoring developers, helping them ship code and build careers. But when it came to growing my own presence on X, I was stuck: endless scrolling, forced content, zero flow. So I quietly shifted focus: diving full-time into building X Growth
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Tom Turcotte
@TomTurcotteTech
12h
I'm building a desktop organizer for a one-week hackathon. The theme is Offline. The first time I pointed it at my own desktop it found 77 things. None of them were files I needed. They were decisions I had not made. A cluttered desktop is a stack of small questions you keep
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Tom Turcotte
@TomTurcotteTech
16h
Why does the work feel worse right before it starts to make sense? You read the docs and nothing lands. You build the wrong version. You explain it out loud and hear the hole in it. Confusion is the first half of the work. It is not a sign you are failing at it. Clarity comes
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Tom Turcotte
@TomTurcotteTech
Nov 2
150 is the number I keep coming back to. Roughly the size of the group a person can hold in their head. Names, faces, who's good at what, who owes who. For most of human history that group was whoever was nearby. Here I get to choose it. Mine is mostly people I've never shared
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Tom Turcotte
@TomTurcotteTech
Nov 2
X is the best place to become a builder. Not to be one. That happens alone, in the editor, with nobody watching. The becoming happens where people can answer. You say what you're making, someone tells you it's wrong, or that they'd use it, or that they tried the same thing and
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