Your second conversation with a potential hire should feel a lot more interesting than your first. First impressions count for a lot, but if you can’t continually build on that energy, the relationship isn’t likely to have legs beyond the initial spark. I call this kind of fire-starting ability aligned dynamism, which is when ideas vary but energy

Change is painful and especially unwelcome when there is nothing dire to fix. But what you must realize—and relay to your team—is that proactive changes that feel premature are far better than reactive changes that feel inflicted upon you. As my friend Tim Ferriss once said, “The more voluntary suffering you build into your life, the less involunta

Optimizing the product you’re making is ultimately about making it more human friendly and accommodating to natural human tendencies.

When you feel lost in ambiguity, ask a different question.

The only time you should force new behaviors or terminology is when they enable a

Your job is to find and identify a single person to be responsible for every kind of task being completed.

NETWORKS ARE SERVED, NOT LED.

A friend who worked for Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page told me that when teams presented product and business goals to Larry, he would often reply, “What would it take to achieve 100x of what you’re proposing?”

Be frugal with everything except your bed, your chair, your space, and your team.