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Hire Your Weeks
Treat your time like a hiring manager: assign each hour a clear job and cut what doesn’t pull its weight.
Why Will Your Customer Share?
Most people share things to signal who they are—not just because something’s useful. Here’s how to build with that in mind.
Sell the Position
A story about marriage, basketball, and the underrated power of selling someone on who they’ll become — not just what they’ll get.
A Prime Day Thought (feat. Sharks w/ Lasers)
A playful take on made-up holidays, artificial urgency, and how startups can borrow a page from Amazon’s hype playbook.
Don't Edit Your Deck, Edit Your Investors
If someone doesn’t get your pitch, it might not be the deck. Do this to find investors who already believe what you do.
How to Evaluate Startup Opportunities (feat. Math)
A practical, math-forward approach to sizing up startup ideas before you waste time chasing the wrong one.
This Too Shall Pasta
What do successful founders do that unsuccessful ones don’t? Look at how they spend their time.
How to Reverse Engineer Moments
Big outcomes often hinge on random moments — here’s how to manufacture more of them on purpose.
Good Marketing, Bad Marketing
A breakdown of the kind of marketing that actually builds trust — and the kind that just sounds good.
“The Da Vinci Code” and Growth
What the bestselling novel can teach startups about pacing, attention, and building irresistible momentum.
Time to Roll Out the Hoops
A coaching metaphor about trust, process, and why real growth happens after the reps get hard.
Why You're Really Watching “Schitt's Creek”
The secret sauce behind shows like “Schitt’s Creek” — and how startups can apply the same emotional logic to build loyalty.
Decision Mountain
A story about zooming out, re-centering, and making better decisions by seeing the full landscape of your work.
The Theory of Startup Funnels
A breakdown of how to actually think about funnels — what they’re for, how they fail, and how to make them convert.
The Things that Matter and the Things that Don’t
A lesson in tuning out noise and focusing only on the handful of things that truly move your startup forward.
How to lose 1.8bn dollars in 10 days
A postmortem on Quibi and the dangers of building a product that solves no real problem — no matter how well-funded it is.
So You've Decided to Take Your Startup Seriously
Why customer interviews are your best tool for traction — and how to stop avoiding them.
Whisper Ideas: This Is Why Your Startup Will Fail
Some ideas feel too obvious to chase — but those are often the ones with the most traction.
Loss Aversion is Paralyzing Your Startup
Founders cling to bad ideas because of sunk costs — here’s how to break free and move forward faster.
What Every Startup Needs To Know About The Psychology Of Choice
When you offer too many options, customers freeze — here’s how to simplify choice and drive action.