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Practice, game, game tape

Business / Personal
Aug 11, 20233 min read

Tracking discipline

Productivity / Personal
Jul 12, 20232 min read

Slow intensity

Startups / Productivity
Jul 5, 20233 min read

Game tape

Business / Personal
Jun 30, 20232 min read

Consistency over time

Business / Media
Jun 27, 20232 min read

Simple, not easy

Startups / Productivity
Jun 22, 20232 min read

All hands

Personal / Work
Jun 13, 20232 min read

Timeblocking

Productivity / Work
Jun 1, 20233 min read

Outsourcing hard thinking

Work / Productivity
May 30, 20232 min read

Mental garage

Productivity / Work
May 24, 20232 min read

Inverse of fun

Startups / Business
May 23, 20232 min read

Big traffic

Startups / Business
May 18, 20232 min read

End of the monoculture

Media / Technology
May 16, 20232 min read

Client-led product work

Startups / Business
May 12, 20232 min read

Getting the plane in the air

Startups / Business
May 11, 20232 min read

Overflowing small things

Productivity / Work
May 9, 20232 min read

Micropayments use case

Media / Business
May 4, 20232 min read

Capturing big ideas

Personal / Writing
May 2, 20232 min read

Clearly seeing the present

Startups / Business
Apr 28, 20232 min read

Too many ideas

Startups / Business
Apr 27, 20232 min read

Validation hierarchy

Startups / Business
Apr 26, 20232 min read

Never ending pivot to video

Media / Business
Apr 24, 20232 min read

Blocking and tackling

Business / Startups
Apr 20, 20232 min read

Live blogs

Media / Business
Apr 19, 20232 min read

3 year magic

Startups / Business
Apr 18, 20232 min read

Long reads strategy

Media / Writing
Apr 13, 20232 min read

Honest incentives

Business
Apr 12, 20232 min read

Self-discipline and AI

Work / Productivity
Apr 11, 20233 min read

AI time suck

Work / Productivity
Apr 7, 20233 min read

Sugar high traffic

Startups / Business
Apr 6, 20232 min read

Executive skills

Work / Business
Apr 4, 20232 min read

1k mrr

Startups / Business
Apr 3, 20232 min read

Routine markers

Productivity / Work
Mar 30, 20232 min read

SVB groupthink

Business / Startups
Mar 16, 20232 min read

Moving goals

Startups / Business
Mar 15, 20232 min read

Routine power

Productivity / Work
Mar 14, 20232 min read

Sick days

Personal / Work
Mar 13, 20233 min read

Losing and recovering skills

Personal
Mar 7, 20232 min read

Wind down days

Work / Productivity
Mar 1, 20232 min read

Misapplied kill criteria

Startups / Business
Feb 28, 20232 min read

A new relationship with Twitter

Personal / Media
Feb 24, 20232 min read

The informed model

Media / Business
Feb 23, 20232 min read

Illegal recommendation engines

Media / Technology
Feb 22, 20232 min read

MBA vs solopreneurship

Business / Work
Feb 21, 20232 min read

Engrained habits

Personal / Productivity
Feb 20, 20232 min read

One variable at a time

Personal / Work
Feb 17, 20232 min read

On celebration

Personal / Business
Feb 14, 20232 min read

Startup minor leagues

Startups / Business
Feb 13, 20233 min read

Building the flow muscle

Personal / Work
Feb 10, 20232 min read

Living on Twitter

Startups / Media
Feb 9, 20232 min read

Is local news journalism?

Media / Business
Feb 8, 20232 min read

Packing snowballs

Startups / Business
Feb 7, 20232 min read

Void writing

Writing / Personal
Feb 6, 20232 min read

Work cycles

Productivity / Work
Feb 3, 20233 min read

Going all-in

Startups / Business
Feb 2, 20232 min read

Solo work schedule

Productivity / Work
Feb 1, 20232 min read

Use your flexibility

Productivity / Work
Jan 31, 20232 min read

Digital town squares

Media / Business
Jan 30, 20232 min read

Starting new habits

Personal / Productivity
Jan 27, 20233 min read

What's your arrowhead?

Startups / Business
Jan 26, 20232 min read

Expand ideas on your own

Personal / Writing
Jan 25, 20232 min read

Dogfooding

Business
Jan 24, 20232 min read

On culmination

Business
Jan 23, 20233 min read

Web 1.0 throwback

Media / Writing
Jan 20, 20232 min read

One long thread

Media / Writing
Jan 19, 20232 min read

What this is

Personal / Writing
Jan 18, 20232 min read