founder's mentality

insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck

Fantastic advice, for software builders:

Headline driven development

Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the

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Managing people

Andreas Klinger klinger.io

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The secret of any great project is to keep it moving, keep it from losing momentum.

-William Zeckendorf

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Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup

Kim-Mai Cutler medium.com

Emilie Kormienko

Cultivate what Adam terms a “challenge network,” a cohort of people you can rely on to give you unvarnished feedback

If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions

The Man Who Does Everything - Adam Grant on The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes

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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brene Brown • 4 highlights

amazon.com

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startups: build it and nobody will come until you figure out distribution which is way harder

anu ☻twitter.com

alex

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Incredible book for founders

Reaching your goals is not success if you compromise your values along the way. Getting ahead shouldn't force you to leave people behind. No accomplishment is worth sacrificing kindness or integrity. Ambition shapes what you achieve. Character is defined by how you achieve it.

name twitter.com

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