Articles
Visual essays on leverage, value, and building in public.
January 2, 2023
Find Your Place
Leverage is as much about where you are standing as how much force you are applying.
January 1, 2023
Make a Name For Yourself
A great name communicates the most information in the most compressed way.
December 22, 2022
Planting Seeds
If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.
December 19, 2022
Constraining your Curiosity
The constraint we apply to package our idea determines their reach & resonance. "Make 1 decision to eliminate 1,000 decisions."
December 16, 2022
Labor vs. Vision
Labor is generally a more interchangeable resource than vision.
December 12, 2022
Inspiration
To help understand this idea, consider the contrast between the two concepts ancient Greeks used to think about time.
December 12, 2022
Up Only
It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.
December 12, 2022
Descriptions
Language is an incredible tool. It makes it possible for us to externalize what we think and communicate it to others.
December 12, 2022
Getting Value
"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." - Warren Buffett
December 11, 2022
Buying Time
The extent to which anything keeps working after you stop working is how much time you earn from making it.