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Self-Mastery4 steps

AI as Your Learning Engine

Stop only asking AI to do work for you — spend your spare hours making it train you

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Marketing4 steps

B2C2B: Horizontal Wedge to Enterprise

Win a billion-user consumer use case first, then let personal users carry the product into their workplace.

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Leadership3 steps

Best-Idea-Wins Culture: Speak Up, Then Commit

Engineer a culture where the junior person's idea can win — then walk the chosen path decisively.

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

Build in Private (Best Work Is Done Alone and Quietly)

Skip the public-building playbook and pour your limited time into customers and product instead.

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Strategy4 steps

Bundling vs Unbundling Wave-Reading

Read where the market sits in the eternal bundle/unbundle cycle to decide vertical vs horizontal.

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Leadership3 steps

Champion-Led Agent Adoption

Roll out new AI tooling by letting a few excited early adopters pave the way for the team.

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Innovation4 steps

Decompose-and-Ensemble

Break a broad problem into specific tasks, then solve each with a specialized model in an ensemble.

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Strategy4 steps

Determinate vs Indeterminate Optimism (Betting Under Deep Uncertainty)

Founders need one specific plan; allocators need many bets and a discount on their own forecasts

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Do The Five Fundamentals Harder

Startup success isn't secret knowledge — it's executing the well-known basics far past normal effort.

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Innovation4 steps

Eval-Driven Product Development

Design the test for your AI product alongside the product, then hill-climb the model against it.

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Peak Performance3 steps

Exposure Hours

Build taste as a trainable skill by quantifying time spent watching real people use products

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Mindset3 steps

From Brick Layer To Architect

Reclaim the 10% of high-leverage architecture work by delegating the 90% of implementation to AI.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Learn the Tokens, Not the Depth

In the AI era, master the symbolic vocabulary of a domain rather than its exhaustive depth

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Marketing4 steps

Lego Brick vs Lego Box (Selling Solutions Up-Market)

Sell ready-made solution boxes to move up-market while still building composable bricks behind the scenes.

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Strategy3 steps

Model Maximalism

Build at the edge of what models can barely do — the next model will make it sing.

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Strategy3 steps

Nine Nos For Every Yes

Guard product quality with creative restraint — every feature you say yes to is a puppy you must care for forever

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Innovation4 steps

NLX: Designing the Natural-Language Interface

Conversation is an interface with real constructs — design it, don't just let the model lead

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Productivity2 steps

Poor Man's Fine-Tuning (Few-Shot + Role Priming)

Steer a model with in-prompt examples and a role identity instead of a full fine-tune.

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Productivity4 steps

Product-First AI Prompting

Steer AI builders by describing the end-user experience ambitiously, then iterate like you're coaching a collaborator

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Productivity4 steps

Prompt Sets Are the New PRD

Communicate product ideas by building the prototype, not writing the doc — demos before memos

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Read Old Books You Know Nothing About

With ~50–100 books left in a lifetime, spend them on time-filtered classics in domains you're ignorant of.

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Innovation3 steps

Reason About It Like a Human

To design or debug AI behavior, ask what an equivalent human would do in the same situation.

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Mindset3 steps

Remove the Emotional Filter From Decisions

Strip emotion out to get the raw decision, then handle feelings separately afterward.

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Innovation4 steps

Reset Through Better Abstractions

Don't fear throwing work away — a better abstraction compounds and recovers sunk cost fast.

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Leadership5 steps

Ship-Fast Operating Model

Lightweight bottoms-up planning, PM-light teams, and iterative deployment in a fast-moving domain.

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Strategy4 steps

Solve Before Scale

Run in a distinct 'solve' mode before you ever switch to 'scale' mode

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Strategy4 steps

Stickiness Over Moats

Stop chasing barriers competitors can't cross; build accumulating value they can't easily replace.

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Leadership4 steps

Systems Over Headcount (The Small Bus)

Solve with better systems and talent density instead of adding people; a smaller bus turns faster.

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Strategy4 steps

Task Loss, Not Job Loss

Your job won't vanish — analyze it as a bundle of tasks and keep swapping the tasks AI absorbs

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Productivity4 steps

Tasks, Not Problems

Delegate to AI agents by handing them scoped, verifiable tasks — never open-ended problems.

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Productivity3 steps

The Agent Foothold Onboarding

Onboard an AI agent like a new hire: environment first, easy tasks next, then scale.

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Mindset4 steps

The Barbell Media Diet

Read only the up-to-the-minute and the timeless — distrust everything in the middle

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Strategy4 steps

The Broccoli-Inside-Sugar Product Strategy

Hide your ambitious vision inside a form factor people already want and use daily.

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Innovation3 steps

The Escape Hatch Principle

Abstractions should let power users drop to raw control when the model doesn't fit their problem

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

The Foundation Reset Heuristic

If the market stops sharpening your path, the problem is the foundation — not the effort.

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

The In-Product Feedback Loop

Stream user reactions straight into your team's consciousness by building feedback into the product itself

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Productivity4 steps

The Parallel Agent Workflow

Run several AI agents at once and insert yourself only where your expertise actually matters.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

The Superpowered Individual (Combination-of-Skills Career Moat)

Go deep in one craft, then use AI to add adjacent crafts until you become un-replaceable

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Innovation4 steps

The Three Dimensions of an Agent

Score any 'agent' on autonomy, complexity, and natural interaction — each a spectrum

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Innovation4 steps

The Two-of-Three Inflection Test

Only build a new zero-to-one product when at least two of three inflections line up

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Mindset3 steps

Understand It to Dissolve the Fear

Fear of a new technology is misunderstanding — spend time with it and you'll see its edges.

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Mindset4 steps

Update Your Priors: The AI Capability Arbitrage

Re-test what AI can do today and demand more of it — old scar tissue is leaving alpha on the table

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Leadership3 steps

Values Reverse-Engineered from Why You Win

Don't philosophize your company values — extract them from the reasons you're actually succeeding.

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

Vertical AI Opportunity Finder

Build where the winning data is locked behind a company or industry's walls — foundation models won't go there.

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Mindset3 steps

Your First Company Is a Zero (Build the Founder Muscle)

Treat your first three founding years as a craft apprenticeship, not a success you owe yourself.

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