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First of all, I think you’re documenting too much if there’s things that you document that you don’t go back to.

So sometimes, it’s not about hoarding every moment as much as being able to value the experiences you’ve had. Because if you have one experience that

My advice for travel is the same as it is for most things in life: question accepted wisdom and authority. Be open to disaster and strangers. Occasion

Start in the future and work backward

If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as

Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th

You’ve been duped into thinking you can create a life without danger, one liberated from constraints and uncomfortable emotions, and that such a life

1/ Boundaries are not saying no. Or making sure something doesn't happen. Or distancing. Or even letting yourself have wants in the face of others'.

the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation

We all benefit from a future imprinted by curious Gen Z.

Humanity needs Gen Z’s ideas and dreams to shape the future, which means giving them a seat at the table

Gen Z’s Curiosity Fingerprint for the Future

Of course technology and the people who use it are always in an emerging dialectic together, shaping and being shaped, but I think today's discontent

Chat is the foundation of civilization. I believe this with all of the seriousness of my being. This is the other realization that took me out of acad

Much has already been written about parasocial relationships, and I am of the mind that they are a logical outcome of the death of God plus late capit

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

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale

28 principles for Web 3 founders. Insights distilled from 100s of conversations & investments in crypto in the past 4 years.

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

Christian Angermayer on Investing in Innovation

If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac

look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.