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What I learned from a bad week
A week where almost nothing went right, and what stayed with me when the week ended.
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A thing I was wrong about
An opinion I held for years, what changed it, and what the change cost me.
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Tradeoffs I made in February
A short audit of three explicit tradeoffs and what they cost.
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What I tell people when they ask what I do
A short sentence I have iterated on for two years.
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The advice I stopped giving
A short list of things I used to repeat in advising calls, and what changed my mind.
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A year of saying no
An audit of what I declined, what it cost me, and what it bought back.
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The advisor I fired was me
On noticing when the voice giving you advice is the one that needs the most.
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Closing the founder check
How I get to the end of a working day without dragging it into the next one.
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Three meetings I always say no to
A short rule that has saved me about a day a week.
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What I do before I open my laptop
A short routine that keeps the first hour of the day mine.
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What I track and what I don't
A short list of the metrics I keep close, the ones I deliberately ignore, and the test I use to decide.
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What I tell every founder call
A short list of things I find myself repeating across advising conversations.
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Building ClubFriends from zero
Notes on starting a consumer social product alone — the constraints I picked, what I am avoiding, and the small loops I run every week.
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Two cities, one keyboard
What changes and what stays the same when you split a working life between two cities.
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The week I stopped reading the timeline
What I did instead, and which inputs I actually missed.
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Soft launching to nobody
On shipping a product to a quiet audience first, and why the silence is the point.