founder's mentality

The good stuff is always lonely in the beginning. Nothing mean­ingful will get made if its potential makers all wimp out too soon, because they get scared by the sparse crowd, the empty room.

Build the game you can win . The corollary to the above is that to succeed; you must build a game that you are singularly suited to play.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they... See more

Parenting is the best part of my life. What I have re-learned from it is that real joy is in the small moments. The first time she said “mama” was a spectacular moment, but it is in delighting in her coy smile as I change her diaper that I find beauty. You have to love the process of your labor, not the outcome of it. That has been true in making... See more