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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

The measure of my success as a leader is how minimal my intervention can be. I’m committed to stepping back and allowing others to make their own dec

"The best leaders are exothermic. Every atom jiggles faster around them. There is no chance for stasis.” -Tobi Lutke

How to convince people to join your startupI actually researched and covered this in a previous issue, so go read that post. Here’s the high-level sum

The classic way to burn through cash is by hiring a lot of people. This bites you twice: in addition to increasing your costs, it slows you down—so mo

Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 5: How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess Talent

There is no ideal pitch deck. The narrative depends on what you’re building—but I really like this one: 1. Vision for the world in 5 years 2. The nove

Distractions divert you from your goals, while opportunities align with and propel you toward them. For example, Americans spend an average of 11 hour

re: many genAI apps can do 'anything and everything' i used to tell this funny story to a lot of consumer founders: when one-shot TTS first started

A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.Why are they in such a hurry

Loneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is

Overthinking is always pointing at a deeper unmet need — the topic, as urgent as it feels, is just the form the need assumes when it can’t be felt. U

One of my favorite quotes in psychoanalysis, from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: "What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the s

Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

Some of my biggest surprises when researching paths to PMF for top B2B companies: 1. If you build it, they *will* come—if you have strong product-mar

when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.

Everyone wants to be picked, but no one wants to organize the collective ‘we’. It’s the ‘we’ that creates a school of thought, a movement, a network,

Finding Your Anchor Task Doing more things does not drive faster or better results. Doing better things drives better results. Even more accurately, d

Here's exactly how I approach building AI side projects in 6 steps: 1. Think of an idea that excites me but that is very simple. I should be able to

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

Healthcare ecosystem mapping: A first step to shape your market

healthcare is having its top deck of the titanic moment what happens in the next year will define the next century of american healthcare, and basica

But the Cigna review system that blocked van Terheyden’s claim bypasses those steps. Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their med