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Certainty in some aspects of your life makes it easier to hold onto uncertainty in others. In your personal life, perhaps your anchors are a commitmen
Chesky knew the pandemic would be a period of unprecedented uncertainty for the company. So one of the first things he did was create a list of six gu
Meredith got a giant piece of butcher paper and rolled it out over the long boardroom table. One by one she made a list of everything that needed to b
“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”— Walt Whitman
Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau
There is no tragedy in having to start again, as long as you start again. - Albert Camus
"Just doing something once today, just steering your kayak over the next few inches of water, is the only way you’ll ever become the kind of person wh
Martha said to me, very quietly: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because t
"A creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not twice or three times, but daily. Systematical
"A man is the sum of his projects" This has been my motto for the past year. it doesn't matter if you're building rockets to go to mars or buildin
Disney once said, "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new path
“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”— Walt Whitman
"A creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not twice or three times, but daily. Systematical
Bill Burr’s advice will banish anxiety from your life: “You’re gonna be fine. And even if you’re not gonna be fine, isn’t it better to just exist thin
“I guarantee you that at some point everything is going to go south on you. You're going to say this is it, this is how I end. Now you can either acce
After my accident, one lesson arrived with unusual force. When circumstances are genuinely bad, survival does not come from pretending everything is f
Some of you may have heard me talk about the advice I was given: live every day as if it’s your last. I understand the spirit of it, but in practice,
Skills vs. Projects You might be wondering—if both skills and projects can be used to give more context to Claude, when should I use each? Think of it
The value of you as a knowledge worker or someone who wants to be a better person is the delta between what an AI can infer and what you carefully cur
LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest.
You’d go in looking for one thing and leave with something else entirely. Something you didn’t know existed, let alone wanted, because it was sitting
The question is no longer whether you can produce something. The question is whether you have something that needs producing.
The lane changes.The pool remains.This is the work of Narrative Worth.Recognizing what you actually own.Not the lane where you learned it.But the capa
There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes
The ultimate competitive advantage is loving what you do. In the long run, it’s hard to beat someone who loves the game.
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by
The sixth chapter covers people who have mastered something on such a high level—usually music, the arts, or science—that it’s inside of them. It’s a
The intrinsic founder thinks like a craftsperson; their business is a container for their practice – a vehicle for an ongoing journey of meaning and
The PLAN Framework—Tom Ross Having helped hundreds of community builders over the years, and actively supporting many wonderful 1:1 clients, it became
Robin Dunbar's research on social group sizes tells us that humans maintain relationships in rough layers: about five intimate relationships, fifteen
“We have no chance of knowing whether we understand something until we test ourselves in some form. If we don’t try to verify our understanding during
The friction between having an idea and seeing it realised used to be enormous. Weeks, months of wrestling something into form. That felt like a limit
Learning to finish is a skill in itself...being able to push through the boring, tedious, difficult (yet necessary) parts to a satisfactory conclusion
My mantra in life has always been to take the first step,” he says.
Here’s what I’ve learned building this (and rebuilding my entire website and building multiple tools) over the past year: you don’t need to know how i
That’s what Structure Setting is about.It’s the middle ground between building a color-coded productivity cathedral and wandering naked through the da
Everyone thinks AI is the end of thinking. It’s not. It’s the end of thinking for us. The central human skill of the next decade will be agency. Not
Agency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to yo
"Just doing something once today, just steering your kayak over the next few inches of water, is the only way you’ll ever become the kind of person wh
We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing. Make stuff you use every day
Sublime is an ethos-driven company. Here is what we believe: Intention > Attention The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make su
Bill Burr’s advice will banish anxiety from your life: “You’re gonna be fine. And even if you’re not gonna be fine, isn’t it better to just exist thin
"Just doing something once today, just steering your kayak over the next few inches of water, is the only way you’ll ever become the kind of person wh
Startup is a Craft Building anything different and original is a process of discovery and exploration. Which means that there is no roadmap. The funda
A product studio is a lab for generating and testing ideas, then turning them into businesses.You can think of the studio model as a powerful de-riski
We all know “startups are hard,” but I think we tend to imagine that this difficulty is bounded, contained, modelable, a bit like running a marathon:
Foraging vs Hunting “Forage to find questions to ask. Hunt to find answers” Passive vs. active. Or divergent v. convergent? Serendipitous vs. deliber
With Sublime’s ‘Chat’ function, I’ll export particularly big collections to my LLM to kickstart the sense-making process, or when I feel overwhelmed b
AI coding platforms like Cursor, Lovable, and Replit have all cracked the how to build challenge—but none of them address the what to build challenge.
Not long ago, young people were told: “Learn to code.” That’s not working so well now. The first wave of AI is destroying the workaday tech jobs—perha
Got a stiff lower back that feels a thousand years old? Lie down for a few minutes and let this simple move melt away tension — right from your bed.
Do these L-sit variations to build chest, shoulders, abs and triceps & core strength. A simple movement you can tune up or down to suit your ability &
Multiple randomised controlled trials have found no meaningful differences between band training and free weights for improving muscle size and streng
The circadian clock is designed to ensure survival. To do this, it needs to anticipate what is going to happen. It doesn’t respond to you waking up; i
People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”
Building in public:-Creates a narrative that an audience can follow get behind-Builds trust: both internally (at the company) and externally (to an a
1. Be clear on your goalI call this your Build in Public North Star.Too many people find out Building in Public has so many benefits and start posting
Readwise Notes on Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s 3C "Head, Heart, Hand" model (importance, enjoyment, competence): 1. Simple Models & Questioning for Self-Unde
I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds ano
Charles Darwin, at work on the theory of evolution in his study at Down House, toiled for two 90-minute periods and one one-hour period per day; the m
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things: “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The tri
Slack Focus requires slack. For me, the biggest turning point was when I started introducing slack in my calendar, about 6 or 7 years ago. Ever since
But and therefore are words that signal change. The story was heading in one direction, but now it’s heading in another. We started out zigging, but n
Most of the time, we understand ourselves as a story. Because of the way our brains have evolved, we spend the majority of our lives experiencing ours
Time it took to reach 100 million users worldwide: Telephone: 75 years Mobile phone: 16 years World Wide Web: 7 years iTunes: 6.5 years Twitter: 5 ye
Jobs: In the future, it won’t be an act of faith. The hard part of what we’re up against now is that people ask you about specifics and you can’t tell
Which of my strongest beliefs are formed on second-hand information vs. first-hand experience? If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how woul
Imagine that you are in the last year in your life, and you get the chance to return to your past—to this very hour—to savor what the old you miss abo
The idea is that reasoning from first principles is reasoning like a scientist. You take core facts and observations and use them to puzzle together a
But my core work — the stuff that gets me up early in the mornings and keeps me up late at night — happens much before those products are publicly rel
Sublime is an ethos-driven company. Here is what we believe: Intention > Attention The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make su
Most poultry and game dishes generally call for a slightly heavier red wine. Burgundian Pinot noir is an obvious choice but Burgundy can be both eye-w
The other type of Beaujolais is the traditionally-fermented one, which has deeper colour, more body and more tannin. Most of the Beaujolais Cru AOPs s
Alternatively, Côtes du Rhône and all its village AOPs such as Rasteau, Cairanne and Plan de Dieu, are medium-bodied wines that mature more quickly an
Breaking the general rule that going south means more body, the Northern Rhône produces red wines that have more body, structure, meatiness and ageing
Step 2: Set the Right ExpectationsA common mistake is driving top-of-funnel growth without ensuring prospects fully understand the value proposition b
It starts with a small group of customers who see your product as a must-have, and from there, you build momentum as you make continuous improvements
LogMeIn had a similar story but with a more pronounced turning point. We didn’t suddenly hit PMF out of nowhere. The breakthrough came when we revampe
It was in Notes in 1964 that Alexander introduced his now-famous idea of form-context-fit. These days, I mostly see it referenced in the phrase produc
When we focus excessively on scaling, on profit margins, on hiring, we miss the point of founding—and life, really. Which is to find meaning in our da
I’m not interested in empire or wealth, I’m interested in paying my bills and spending every minute of my time on labor that brings me delight. I may
But it was only a sliver of who I am. The rest? The thinker, the writer ... was left behind. Not because it lacked value. But because I didn’t know wh
You don't need to be in tech to have high agency. Yet you'll find most of these people there, as they naturally gravitate toward low-structure, high-i
the work that lights you up.
On the right: what I would prompt to give it more pzazzz. A prompt that reflects my understanding of positioning and psychology. I provide the right
Roadmaps fail because reality isn't linear.Sea charts are better—they account for two dimensions.But true strategic thinking requires navigating in th
V3 | Systems | Bottlenecks Bottlenecks are the choke points, the narrow parts of the hourglass where everything slows down. They’re the constraints
What do you wish Strategists would do more of?“Find opportunities for action, and not just diagnostics.”“Choices. Most planning presentations open up
Optionality is a means to an end, not the end itself. Our obsession with optionality can backfire.
What if you designed your business for optionality?
Here's a suggested outline for your atomic essay on startup founding as a craft focused on maximizing optionality: ## The Founder's Craft: Navigating
It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet
Prioritize Earned Channels for Growth Prioritize building owned or earned channels for growth acquisition. Earned channels, like virality, word-of-mo
Step 3: Find a Scalable, Cost-Effective Growth ChannelEven with the right target customers and messaging, you need a repeatable and scalable way to ac
Benchmarks for Cohort RetentionDifferent types of products have different benchmarks for what constitutes product-market fit.For consumer products, a
We are all agents within a complex adaptive system, and we’re systems ourselves. so we might as well get good at it.
Building blocks come into play at this point. It has been observed that innovation in CAS is mostly a matter of combining well-known components in new
the question of what kind of company you want to build is as urgent and personal as it ever was. People will always struggle with it. The old models o
Bootstrapped businesses have a huge advantage of being customer-focused out of necessity, but at the same time their growth comes from what they pull
The most important question for me is, "How do I want to spend my days?" And the answer is: I want to spend my time thinking, creating, and ideating w
People often feel like they have to move away from obscurity in their new business as quickly as possible. While obscurity can equal less exposure to
for the Aspire NatWest presentation. We're talking roadmaps. So think about risk roadmaps. That's just got from the Design Spring guys. But also, okay
The idea behind the now-next-later plan is viewing your traction roadmap using three time horizons that roughly align with the three distinct segments
Once you have achieved product/market fit, it’s time to accelerate through the next steps of the pyramid and then begin scaling your business. Here’s
1. Vision is the foundation of greatness: Define your purpose and values Any organization, in order to survive and achieve success, must have a sound
Description du professionnelCette charmante maison se situe au coeur du village de Cassagnoles,et dispose de 114m2 habitable. Ce bien vous offre la
You do not have to register a car on foreign plates staying in France uninterrupted for no more than one year, as long as you, yourself, are not livin
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do" -Bob Dylan
Get a cheap digital tape recorder. Go on a walk with someone you want to teach about your topic of expertise. Spend half an hour explaining, in the mo
mymind’s design, while gorgeous, isn’t flexible for you to rearrange. If you want to resize items or drag things around and annotate them, consider a
Just playing with Sublime to see how it is different to other tools I use for PKM. Namely Tana, Craft, Notebook LM, Matter App. Here’s what I like: Co
Matter app vs. Sublime? It’s not necessarily one vs the other, it’s about the use case—when is which the right tool? How should they work together. M
How Lex Makes This Process Really Great: When you use Ask Lex's in-line comments, the AI sees both your highlighted text and the full document. This m
If you’re unsure if your sentence is clear, ask the AI to explain your sentence back to you.