Tweets about Work

I'm drawn to the idea of building a "Calm" Company: • Sustainable growth • Working with friends • Small core team (<10 people) • Remote-first • No fixed work hours • Asynchronous communication • Very few meetings • No managers or PMs • Transparent decision-making • Profit-sharing among the team • Annual equity liquidity windows • Purpose-driven • ... See more

In my experience successful people are successful because they have such enormous personal problems that literally becoming the best in the world is less hard than solving them. So all the productivity and health life tips are totally missing the point….

This is an important point. A lot of the most successful people, not just in startups but in many fields, do what they do because there's something they want to exist, or some mystery they want solved, and no one else is working on it.

My flow chart on the decision process I go through when deciding whether I want to do something. I’m making #dailyart https://t.co/rdkktjpYhb

There are essentially two business models right now: boring, useful things that can print money and tastemaker brands that can brute force cultural relevancy. Dumb $ is funding the middle: stuff that is neither useful nor cool enough to make it past current startup headwinds.