Britt Gage

@brittfgage

Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.

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Productivity is not drudgery and chores. It’s your ability to take a vision in your head and manifest it in the real world.

Productivity is also not about working harder and longer. It’s about working more efficiently, which means minimizing waste. Think wasted time, effort, energy, or potential.

Productivity is not some random hacks and silver... See more

Superhuman

Internal Product Management and How To Enjoy The Process

By casting a wide net, I learned that I have very little ability to predict how useful a call will be in advance. There is relevance, when work is closely related to something you’re working on, and usefulness, when work advances something you’re working on. Relevance is easier to predict, but it’s not a very good proxy for usefulness, which is a... See more

Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic

On building of All Trades

Until the 1970s, tech was about hardware .

From the 1970s to today, tech has been about software .

From here on out, tech will be about the combination of software and hardware .

Packy McCormick • Tech is Going to Get Much Bigger

Startup Soothsayers

Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a successful planner looks forward to altering the plans to make them more likely to become real.

Dreams, plans and contradictions

Internal Product Management

When you’re an early stage startup, your most important job is to get clarity on what you’re building. When your product is buggy and low quality and the first mile of the product is ignored (the welcome/tour, the onboarding, the explanatory copy, the empty states), you won’t know if the poor retention numbers are due to a bad product or a bad... See more

Things I'm thinking about

Startup Advice

Stack rank all the candidates for a highly competitive school or job. Typically, offers would be made to the top-k candidates. Instead, make offers probabilistically, with probability proportional to

[approx # top tier candidates]

[candidate's stack rank]

. Benefits include: greater diversity of accepted candidates; less ridiculous resources spent

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein • Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law

Internal Product Management

The year of everyday risks

How does one live more alive ?

The concrete way I will try is taking more risks.

Not Bet the farm on red, or Climb Mt. Everest -type risks, but rather, the everyday ones.

Everyday risks — the small actions that come with a twinge of discomfort.