Entrepreneurship

Most times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.

If effort is now diminished, if it can be hidden, and proof can or soon will be gamed too, if transparency itself can be performed — what’s left?

The only thing left that can’t be gamed is wanting something badly enough that it shows. Desire is the closest thing to proof of authenticity we have left.

Desire resists this because it’s too... See more

And if there’s one thing that experience has taught me, it’s that very little results can be replicated, as much as we wish they could . You cannot lift someone else’s strategy, apply it line by line, and expect the exact same outcome, because outward growth is deeply shaped by many variables including timing, luck, platform shifts, your voice,... See more

High agency is such an important idea because the more agency an individual or society has -- the more problems they can solve.

High agency can be a confusing idea to understand because it’s not just one idea. It’s a combination of three distinct skills rarely found together:

1. Clear thinking


2. Bias to action


3. Disagreeability

I get it. You pour your soul onto the page, and it’s crushing when no one seems to care. That’s human. But if you’re not careful, the need for validation starts steering the work.

You bend your tone. You chase trends. You lose the very thing that made you worth reading in the first place.

And the things is the more you write to grow , the less your... See more