SKINNY&bald

02/24/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗻: https://buff.ly/3DigaRU

---

I almost took my last post down. Not because I regretted it. Not because I felt ashamed. But because I wasn’t sure if sharing it would make things better or worse. I’ve always had a weird relationship with talking about struggles. On one hand, I believe in processing

02/22/2025

40 Things I Had to Unlearn—And Lessons I Actually Learned: https://buff.ly/4bgu4k7

---

I turn 40 soon. I always thought life would make more sense by now. It hasn't. What has happened is a series of hard resets, wake-up calls, and lessons I never expected to learn. Some things, I had to unlearn—beliefs I once held that turned out to be wrong.

03/25/2023

Interesting thought piece by Henry Copeland on markets: “The high price of being last”

Trapped in a maze of mirrors, investors yearn for the right path. Perversely, when EVERYONE agrees on the path to salvation, it's time to look for a new direction.

02/11/2022

"The most effective way to live and work in a productive state is to develop an understanding of where you're spending your time, when you do your best work, and whether you're doing work that is worthwhile." -Ashutosh at Sunsama

07/05/2021

Raw Audio Experiments: Benefits and Drawbacks: https://buff.ly/37rsg8q

---

07/05/2021

Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: the best tool for your community

An in-depth comparison of 3 top community platforms across dozens of factors.

07/04/2021

Product Development - It Isn’t All Sunshine and Rainbows…:

---

EARLY-STAGE PRODUCT CHALLENGESBuilding a new product can be exciting and energizing, but it ain't all sunshine and rainbows. Littered through the many highs of creating something BRAND NEW are periods of second-guessing yourself, questioning your judgement, and massive, sometimes inexplicable overwh...

09/14/2020

Why senior engineers get nothing done... hah

You start a new job and it's amazing. Code all day, clear objectives, easy guidelines, ship a bunch of features be a hero. Then something happens and suddenly you get nothing done. 🤔

09/09/2020

Live versus Dead Players

This is an excerpt from the draft of my book on Great Founder Theory.

09/09/2020

Useful vs. Useless Competitive Analyses

When I first joined Tesla as a product manager, I remember making a competitive analysis chart to understand the competitive landscape. This is a common exercise for product managers. They (1) make a list of competitors, (2) build a set of criteria to evaluate the competition (such as pricing and fe...

09/08/2020

There is a lot of negativity around NYC right now. Bloggers writing sensational headlines. That sort of thing. It makes me want to go out and buy a ton of NYC stock right now. It is certainly the case that many talented people are leaving NYC right now. It is also the case that the […]

04/30/2020

A New Marketing Framework for Modern Brands

If you were to name three extremely hot consumer brands today, you might very well select Fortnite (Epic Games), 100 Thieves, and MSCHF…