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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Humans have vibes, computers don’t.

It’s common to compare the brain to a computer, but this is a deeply flawed analogy.

This insight was best captured in The Extended Mind – a book that reveals how intelligence exists well beyond our brain. A laptop operates the same whether it is on a desk in an office or on a bench in a park. But human brains are... See more

Sari Azout • Things I'm thinking about

Humans In The Loop

With the innovation of the org chart McCallum eased the tradeoff between scale and efficiency that many organizations face as they grow. This new ‘operating system’ for firms operates even more effectively in modern times by leveraging the internet, but the tradeoff between scale and efficiency has not gone away. Structures and processes that work... See more

Omar Shams • The AI Organization, part I - by Omar Shams - mutable.ai

On building of All Trades

When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important... See more

David Epstein • "Discipline Is Destiny"

How To Enjoy The Process

Choose Your Reason and Season Wisely

Some entrepreneurs build businesses for a compelling, undeniable, passion-fueled reason regardless of their venture’s timeline. Others hop on a bandwagon or try to master a trend and either sink or swim in one short season. Rather than try to compete with a herd of rats who are already decades ahead of you in an... See more

Rachel Greenberg • The Backwards Hack to Surviving The AI Revolution as an Entrepreneur Isn’t Mastering the New Tech

Startup Advice

But maybe this makes it easier—knowing that you will be nauseated and lost when you try to do anything in life other than stay on an understandable, legible, unobjectionable trajectory. Sometimes this is called safety. But it’s really not safe. It’s just steady-state. People with safe jobs get cancer and get fired all the time. Often, taking the... See more

Sasha Chapin • The Moat of Low Status

On becoming

Management systems have been designed to provide reliability and efficiency, not adaptability and agility. Many of the tools and practices of modern management are geared towards solving problems and eliminating deviations in processes, behaviors, and practices. Because of this framework, management training and leadership development is often... See more

Kotter • Why Change Capability Is The Most Important Missing Competency For Today’s Leaders

Internal Product Management and

Progress is not automatic or inevitable. It depends on choice and effort. It is up to us.

Progress is not automatically good. It must be steered. Progress always creates new problems, and they don’t get solved automatically. Solving them requires active focus and effort, and this is a part of progress, too.

What is progress?

On becoming and On building of All Trades

Americans have tripled the time spent in meetings since 2020, data from Microsoft’s suite of business software show—leaving less time for the casual interactions that social scientists say foster happiness at work.

workfutures • What Is New

Internal Product Management

Eight marketing maxims

Trust is worth more than attention.

Helping people get to where they seek to go is more effective than hustling people to persuade them to go where you’re going.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

Tell ten people. If they don’t tell the others, make a better product.

Creating the conditions for the word to spread is the

Eight marketing maxims

Startup Systems