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But the key lesson, the thing I would impart to any aspiring bloggers, content creators, or newsletter proprietors, is that the cornerstone of internet success is not intelligence or novelty or outrageousness or even speed, but regularity.

Max Read • Matt Yglesias and the Secret of Blogging

My notes from Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham: The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users lov... See more

- “Starting a blog was the single most important decision that I made in my twenties. It’s the thing that unlocked a lot of other opportunities.”– Andrew Chen

Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating

Every day, first thing, most people get a blend of randomness all at once. In this high-dimensional space, you’re being pulled in a bunch of different directions, not really making progress. Progress is doing some math today and doing some more math in the same area tomorrow. A little bit of compounding progress along the same direction each day ad

Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

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.@dharmesh on why every founder is fighting the 2nd law of thermodynamics

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Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing

Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

Prioritize work to minimize opportunity cost. This prevents you from only pursuing incremental futures. In each quarter how much time to allocate incremental ~ 60%, to big new initiatives ~30%, to guidance & infrastructure ~10%.

Substack • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking

“When you try to do something for everyone, you don’t get it right for any one.”

Scott Belsky • “Prefer” Postmortem: 6 Lessons Learned From Building An Independent Pro Network

productivity for the knowledge worker means the ability to get the right things done. It means effectiveness.