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Self-Mastery3 steps

AI Introspection Rubric

Point an AI agent at a folder of your own notes to surface criteria you hold implicitly and turn them into a rubric.

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Influence3 steps

Anchor High, Never Split the Difference

Find the ceiling; a reflexive split leaves six figures on the table

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Leadership4 steps

Barrels-and-Ammunition Team Design

Staff each team from the gap, not from a fixed PM/EM/designer template

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Marketing3 steps

Be The User Reset (Jobs-to-be-Done)

Zoom out and ask what the user hires your product for — then be that user and ask if you'd even buy what you made.

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Influence4 steps

Build Champions Before the Offer

The negotiation starts sooner than you think — plant reciprocity and recruit coaches across the org

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Strategy3 steps

Building Trust Through Speed

Ship an honest 'research preview' early, then visibly iterate on feedback so speed builds trust instead of eroding it.

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Peak Performance4 steps

Conductor: Energy Leads, Emotion Follows, Words Fill the Gap

Shift your energy state on cue and let emotion and words follow automatically

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Communication4 steps

Control the Channel, Pace, and Field

Never negotiate over email; slow it down and pick the room where you win

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Cultivate Agency, Not Skills

When AI hands everyone the skills, agency becomes the only differentiator — and you build it by making things.

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Communication3 steps

Deflect the Number Question

Never name your figure first; make them reveal the range instead

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Leadership3 steps

Deliberate Low-Leverage Leadership

Choose the nitty-gritty tasks 'anyone could do' — because when a senior leader does them, they become high leverage.

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Productivity3 steps

Demos Not Memos

The first 10% of every project is now free — so build something to react to instead of writing documents.

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Innovation3 steps

Design in the Material

PMs and designers should code — not to ship, but to master the material and truly understand what they're designing.

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Communication3 steps

End Strong (Land the Plane)

Anticipate that you'll get pulled out of flow at the end, and deliberately land your ending

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Communication4 steps

Evals as Articulating Success

An eval is just a clear spec of ideal behavior — the shared language of AI product work

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Finance4 steps

Expand the Pie with Performance Triggers

Break the salary band by making it 'we' and tying pay to outcomes

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Marketing3 steps

Head vs Tail in Answer Engines

Why AEO rewards citation frequency and hyper-specific long-tail questions

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Marketing3 steps

Help Center Optimization for the Tail

Turn your support docs into the citation source for obscure use-case questions

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Innovation3 steps

Legibility Framework for Spotting Frontier Ideas

Hunt for illegible ideas — the ones with real energy that nobody can quite articulate yet — and translate them.

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Strategy3 steps

Obviously Good, Then Incremental Correctness

Only make obviously good stuff, ship it in iterations, then reconcile the sprawl back to a naked robotic core.

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Leadership3 steps

Roasting Plus High Standards

Let the team feel safe enough to roast you, then apply high standards without fear — safety makes rigor easier.

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Strategy5 steps

Run Toward the Hard Use Cases

Don't disable high-stakes uses to avoid downside — engineer them to be great

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Innovation5 steps

Ship-to-Learn: The Emergent-Product Loop

When product properties are emergent, launching is how you discover them

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Communication4 steps

Stay in Character (Don't Leak)

Never broadcast your internal insecurities — the audience can't see what you feel, so don't show them

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Productivity3 steps

Stratified Design Work

Split your time between supporting engineers' execution and setting a 3-6 month vision, not polishing mocks.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Taste as a Trainable Model

Taste is a virtual machine in your head that predicts whether your in-group will like an idea — built by reps with feedback.

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Marketing7 steps

The 7-Step AEO Execution Plan

A repeatable pipeline to make your product show up in LLM answers

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Strategy3 steps

The Access-to-an-Audience Moat

In human data the only durable moat is a trusted, targetable audience — not recruiters or ads

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Communication4 steps

The Accordion Method

Prepare a talk by speaking it down to its essence and back out, so it's internalized not memorized

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Marketing3 steps

The Authentic Reddit Citation Strategy

Win Reddit citations by being a real, disclosed user — not a spam farm

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Communication4 steps

The Bow and Arrow

Build a talk around the one thing you want remembered, then add weight so it lands

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Entrepreneurship5 steps

The Company-Inside-a-Company Incubation Playbook

Spin a 0-to-1 business inside a mature company by ring-fencing it completely from the core

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Influence5 steps

The Consultative Interview Flip (Sell the Vacation)

Run the interview like an enterprise sale so there is no competition when the offer comes

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Communication3 steps

The Information-Gain Content Heuristic

Judge content by what new it adds, not how typical it is

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Leadership4 steps

The Maximally Accelerated Question

A forcing question that separates critical path from what can wait

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Innovation4 steps

The Middleman-Signal Disintermediation Play

When middlemen and end-customers both come to you directly, that's the signal to build the business yourself

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Strategy3 steps

The Quality-Volume-Speed Priority Stack

What high-stakes data buyers actually rank: quality first, then volume, then speed

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Communication3 steps

The Soft Pushback

The one-line, zero-aggression ask that recovers ~20% of comp almost every time

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Innovation3 steps

The Tiny Core Principle

Every enduring product has one tiny thing that is a superpower — find it, protect it, and stop bolting on features.

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Leadership4 steps

Three Designer Hiring Archetypes

Hire for one of three profiles — block-shaped generalist, deep-T specialist, or the crack new grad.

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Peak Performance4 steps

Triple Step: The Tree in the Storm

Hold one clear direction while integrating distractions, so nothing can derail your speaking

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Productivity5 steps

Two-Mode Prioritization for AI Products

Prioritize backward from model magic AND forward from customer needs

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