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2025 review
One of my favorite annual rituals is writing this review. It forces me to slow down, look back at what I actually accomplished, where my life is…
Dec 11, 2025
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Newsletter #9: Tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) systems to your advantage?
Mar 14, 2020
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50 things I know
Sep 1, 2024
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Newsletter 92: the road less traveled
Jul 31, 2022
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2023 review
Dec 27, 2023
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You can’t A/B test your way to PMF
There is a quote by the founder of Notion about building new products that I’ve found myself coming back to:
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The path to engineered luck
For years, I’ve tried to rationalize luck—to see if it’s something I could attract or engineer. In tech, people believe luck can be engineered. Just…
Oct 14, 2025
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The ascending world
The ascending world: forward-looking, expecting next year to be better by design, not by chance.
Aug 16, 2025
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50 things I know #2
Last year, I published 50 Things I Know—lessons I’ve picked up over time. More notes to myself than advice for others. Since then, I’ve kept collecting…
Jul 26, 2025
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Sell something people want
These days, I spend most of my time building new products, but there was a stretch where go-to-market (GTM) was all I thought about.
Jul 20, 2025
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Signal, noise, and clarity
Exceptional input, exceptional output
Jul 13, 2025
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The gravity of hubs
If you study history, the pattern becomes obvious. The top people of any generation, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, often knew each other…
May 30, 2025
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Addicted to the Maze
The startup maze is addictive because it offers emotional rewards you can’t get in safer environments. It satisfies something primal, a need to struggle…
May 26, 2025
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The real reason startups fail
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to a peculiar kind of hell: to push a massive boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down every time…
May 15, 2025
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