But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp

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If Kim Kardashian entered your industry with a terrible offer, she'd still make a billion dollars. Your problem is not your offer. The problem is you don't promote yourself well enough.

What does it feel like when things take shape?

There is sunlight in the office and a warm cup of coffee. There are meetings with inventors and artists. The code runs, no bugs. Wonderful music plays, I barely need to intervene, the playlist gets it right. I wrap some critical work just before our evening plans.

There is a shape to the sort of life I i... See more

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are supposed to magically eliminate all variables for failure before trying anything new in the presence of others. 

So next time that feeling creeps in, try this HoJo (that’s what we insiders call the place... See more

Climate action is essential or we’re raiding the piggy bank of our children.

A renaissance is what makes us human. Creativity, empathy, vision - these are hallmarks of entrepreneurship that allow us to use technology to create new value.

We are in an age of noise.

The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.

Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See more

Our inbox teaches us to fractionalise our attention.

• Our phone teaches us to fractionalise our attention.

• Social media teaches us to fractionalise our attention.

Unless we learn to focus for long periods of time on the problems we are trying to solve, we will live a life without ever doing our best work.