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When i search my heart I find that there’s a rather strange complex of anger and frustration... at the world... for its dogged insistence on changing

So what makes us human? Here’s the analogy I would give. If you think about all of our ancestors from hundreds or thousands of years ago—what would

Aggressive growth projects often lead to UX cruft, slowly degrading long-term user engagement and retention. Yes, you can move short-term metrics by t

Founder Mode

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

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

Startups and Macro Risk

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Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.

When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde

What’s The Future Of Real Estate? 18 Experts Share Their Insights

Blockchain in Real Estate: How It’s Revolutionizing the Industry

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Market Selection in Vertical IntegrationIf you were to ask what sunk Convoy, it ultimately boils down to an over-dependence on the digital freight mat

Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are su

Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identi

"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Tw

Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most

Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c

people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right communi

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it

We’ve replaced time in the field with time on our phones. What we now call experience is the weighted average of our own and the residue of what other

Four shifts, and notice what they have in common.Oral defense. A student sits with the work and answers for it live. You cannot outsource what you hav