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“A tiny acorn grows into a magnificent oak tree, and it never goes: ‘I have to improve myself.’” Discover, not improve
Self-discovery is all about diving deep and uncovering who you are and what you truly want from life. It’s about finding the principles, passions, a
A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu
What I call temporal curiosity is the practice of actively directing our curiosity across time – past, present, future – to gain a deeper understandin
“It’s not just you prompting the LLM, but also the LLM as a prompt reversibly triggers your imagination and creativity… Again, the role of the LLM her
Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different pe
junior pm: i have to run my first global alignment meeting and i'm freaking out senior pm: what's your plan? junior pm: schedule the call, walk ever
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun
Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing
A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu
I’d spent much of the last decade trying as hard as I could to make a positive impact, from teaching English in South America to working in microfinan
Self-discovery is all about diving deep and uncovering who you are and what you truly want from life. It’s about finding the principles, passions, a
I don’t want to fit into some weird cultural idea of what a dad is supposed to be. I just want to be me. But “me” is changing. This is a huge life shi
I believe that anyone who has to work on a holiday should be paid double. I believe corn on the cob should be put on the grill in the husk. And I beli
I have learned so many things from music about writing. I think there are three important elements: rhythm, harmony, and free improvisation. I learned
the predominant driver in pop culture humor morphed in the early 2000’s from irony to awkwardness. The switch is best explained as the difference betw
As we encounter complex ideas, they’re often explained with a form of semantic algebra. You understand X, and this is a bit like that, but different..
In my ideal world, the act of saying sorry at appropriate times would be a hallmark of power rather than a marker of weakness. I think many women woul
It means that many startups have to justify their existence not by explaining why they’ll make the world better, but by actively showing they won’t ma
No longer will we need to learn to navigate through apps like Uber or complex systems like those of SAP or Oracle. Thus far, we’ve always adapted to s
Artificial intelligence will spur two fundamental changes in our relationship with technology. The first is that voice—already the most natural interf
The argument that Ramp is in the best position of any B2B company to capitalize on AI comes in three stages, from general to Ramp-specific: AI will
Deciding when and why to say yesAs you’ve heard many times, saying yes to something means you’re saying no to something else. So how do you know what
“You’ll probably surprise yourself with what you can accomplish—if you’re focused on one thing. You’ll probably frustrate yourself with what you fa
So many of the problems that teams have — communication, organization, strategy — are unrelated to the function.
We need resumes that include transition and points of inflection.Bulletpoints of accomplishments can get redundant and reductive. With AI on the rise,
Build a cross-company network of change agents. You need to start by building out a layer of high-performers within your own team. Before you go broad
Each drop is creative and rebellious, winking to the world that capitalism is a necessary joke. They do all of this with a team of 34 people, most of
Customer math for a new business How much does it cost to get a new customer? How much do you make from every interaction with that customer?
Maximum leverage is the result of commitment, of daily persistence, of gradual and insane and apparently useless effort over time.
Startups will have “we’re amazing” moments and they will also have “we’re crashing” moments. In order to weather those storms, you need high levels of
There are few companies that have successfully scaled taste better than MSCHF (pronounced “mischief”). Well, not exactly a company, as they explained
Discover your “zone of genius” by categorizing your monthly or quarterly calendar activities as “hated it,” “liked it,” and “loved it.” Prioritize tas
To be lost is to be humanFeeling lost is a fundamental part of the human experience, a feeling that traces back to the dawn of history.
Learning is complicated. While we’re doing it, it’s easy to imagine that those around us are completely sure of themselves, moving forward in a wel
To create a product that grows organically, you need to “surprise and delight” your customers. You can’t do that by simply meeting a user’s expectatio
Everyone wants to have a unique idea but the alternative is to just to be ten times better. The market is full of crap. An underrated way to succeed
Some problems are like muddy puddles. The way to clear a muddy puddle is to leave it alone. The more you mess with it, the muddier it becomes. Many of
Once you choose a project, you are confined to a relatively narrow band of impact (Figure 1B); barring an unexpected surprise, the solution to a medio
It’s January, and I love Januaries.I love that they contain the weight of beginnings, solid as a piece of clay or wood.I love their mystery, that tant
What if instead of setting quantitative goals, I focused on how I wanted to feel on the other side? In the case of my OneNote course, I wanted to en
Useful and Overlooked Skills
Design talk: Too much consistency will ruin your app. Humans are naturally drawn to experiences that create a strong sense of place. This demands va
People who don't pause exist more in their head than their body. The mind is top-down, rigid, quick, enforcing an established view. The mind is waitin
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony: Engineers had the technology to add the recording func
Smaller and simpler software with one core feature always makes me more focused. Every time I want to write something I open a simple text editor inst
There are some gifts, by the way, that you do not have to pay for. Gifts that come at no cost. Gifts that do not require wrapping paper. Gifts that
Although I appreciate the gesture, I’m not The Godfather! My help doesn’t come with strings attached. If I take the time to do something for you, it’s
rich people want to be cool and cool people want to be rich and everyone just wants to be a little less anxious
Unsettled is a good word to describe the weirdness of modern life, and I think one of the main reasons many of us feel unsettled is because no one fee
It’s important to note that life wasn’t always like that! To the contrary, we only very recently – in a tiny, tiny, recent part of humanity’s history
