On building of All Trades

Self-discovery is all about diving deep and uncovering who you are and what you truly want from life. It’s about finding the principles, passions, and goals that are uniquely rewarding and fulfilling to you.

The aim is not to change into someone else, but to become more of who you already are. To chart a course that is genuinely yours, that brings

Hiring too many people—slows everything down and makes it much harder for you to react and change. You are almost certainly setting yourself up for layoffs in the future, even if you are successful , because you probably won’t accurately allocate the hiring among functions for what you will really need as your business grows.

Fictive Kin • Pmarchive · How much funding is too little? Too much?

Contrary to what most founders assume, having more resources doesn’t make things easier. Instead, it introduces the challenge of resource allocation — deciding where to invest time, money, and personnel for the best return. As your startup grows, and as you hire more employees, it means you’re going to have more mouths to feed and more people with... See more

Are You Prepared to Pay the Real Price of Startup Success?

When there’s high fit on a team, there’s high trust, and with that trust comes the ability to make decisions quickly.

Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success

It’s time we rebuild the rhythms of our organizations around the substantive bits instead of the knee-jerk ones. What happened to virtues like discipline, contemplation, care, and reflection in our work lives?

Brie Wolfson • Good Cogs and Their Tools

“Self-management requires an interlocking set of structures and practices.”

How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer

Maximum leverage is the result of commitment, of daily persistence, of gradual and insane and apparently useless effort over time.

The moment of maximum leverage

You walk down your high street. What do you prefer to see there? The economist will say: Walmart, Best Buy, the Gap. Scale economies — cheaper prices — better for “consumers”! But the human being will say: an independent cafe, a good bookshop, a boutique clothing store. Why? Because they offer many things that mega scale organizations don’t.

Sari Azout • 10 things worth sharing this week

How can I maintain my creativity, optimism, intellectual vitality, and sense of agency in the face of the stress that comes from building a company and the endless forces luring towards conformity?

We start raw, then our hearts and minds get boiled by constraints, pressure, feedback, and challenges. How do we keep our head up and maintain our... See more