Articles

Visual essays on leverage, value, and building in public.

Thought, Said, Heard

November 14, 2022

Thought, Said, Heard

Words are not the thing being communicated, they are merely an attempt to map to the thing being communicated.

Time

November 14, 2022

Time

How we view time is how we spend time.

Distraction, Focus

November 13, 2022

Distraction, Focus

Focusing on something for an incredibly long time is how we build strong and lasting knowledge, businesses, and relationships.

The difference between value and perceived value is communication

November 10, 2022

How to Build Leverage from Scratch

Writing is a Technology

October 15, 2022

Writing is a Technology

Keep Going

February 24, 2022

Keep Going

It's hard to know to what degree what you're doing right now is contributing to what you'll be doing in the future.

+2 vs. x2

February 23, 2022

+2 vs. x2

In a market without physical constraints, you can build products and make media with close to zero cost of replication.

NFTs, explained

February 23, 2022

NFTs, explained

A social contract between creator and owner, stored immutably on a blockchain.

Frame

February 23, 2022

Frame

While zooming out will sometimes reveal you are completely wasting your time, it may also deliver the perspective required to keep going.

Learning Curve

February 23, 2022

Learning Curve

When learning anything, it's often the case that we're immediately confronted with how little we know about the thing we're trying to learn.

Customers, Community

February 23, 2022

Customers, Community

It's one thing to be able to broadcast your work to every corner of the earth to find clients and customers — it's another for that work to become a conduit for meeting lifelong friends.

Truth, Perception

February 23, 2022

Truth, Perception

Acknowledging the fact we can't know everything puts us in a much more useful position for revealing our blindspots.

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