Sep

30

Startups are built by generalists and scaled by specialists

Hey. I've stopped posting as frequently here because I'm doing most of my writing on Chasing Melody nowadays. Each week

Sep 30, 2022

5 min read

Sep

01

How to Find Good Ideas

"...you go to Paul and come back with ten ideas that I had not thought. Some of them are really outlandish and terrible ideas and some of them are really good.”

Sep 1, 2022

4 min read

Aug

26

Don't Fail Because You Moved Too Slowly

"Your OS will be obsolete before it’s finished. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you’re going to start on it now!”

Aug 26, 2022

4 min read

Aug

26

On Making Better Career Decisions

The goal is not to look smart the whole way. Better to look dumb for a bit, but genius at some point, than look merely decent the whole way by taking the safe path.

Aug 26, 2022

2 min read

Aug

19

Optimise for Novelty and Interestingness Instead of Objectives and Outcomes

Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing.

Aug 19, 2022

5 min read

Aug

12

Building the High-Agency Habit

How to develop the skill of coming up with ambitious goals and achieving them, whatever they are.

Aug 12, 2022

5 min read

Aug

05

Agency in Action

"A key quality of exceptional entrepreneurs - like those you seek tirelessly - is to not take no for an answer."

Aug 5, 2022

6 min read

Jul

29

You Probably Need to Show More Agency

"Arguably the most important personality trait you can foster"

Jul 29, 2022

4 min read

Jul

22

Why I Write

"You can't lie to yourself when you write. You can either put the words on the page or you can't. And if you can't you'd better get back to reading and wrestling with the topic until you can."

Jul 22, 2022

3 min read

Jul

18

The 96 Meter Rule

Why No Buildings in Budapest are Over 96 Metres Tall.

Jul 18, 2022

1 min read