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AI as Your Personalized Just-In-Time Tutor

Feed AI a curriculum tuned to how you learn, then prove understanding by teaching it back.

Innovation4 steps

AI at the Core vs AI at the Edge

Decide whether to sprinkle AI onto existing code or rebuild the workflow with the LLM as the core

Innovation7 steps

AI-First Product Leadership: Hold the Paddles

If AI steers your product, the product leader must own the objective, features, data and infra.

Strategy5 steps

Backwards From the Peak: Ambition Set by Potential, Not by Numbers

Derive goals from what the thing could be, then work backwards; today's numbers are not the anchor.

Choosing a Startup PR Agency

Vet PR agencies on month-one behavior, writing samples, and lead time — not on big-brand logos.

Mindset6 steps

Conviction-Over-Demand Career Navigation

Stop chasing the most in-demand role; chase the conviction where you can make a dent and learn.

Decompose the Strategy You Disagree With Into Hypotheses

Break a plan you doubt into assumptions, find the one you reject, and design the smallest test.

Deep Work vs. Ping-Pong Day Design

Split every day into deep work and reactive time, and refuse to open Slack before noon.

Define Success Before You Prompt

The clearer your definition of success and failure, the better the work you get from people or AI.

Diagnose Agent Failure as Structural, Not Stupidity

When an agent does the wrong thing, check its context, tools, and scope — not its intelligence.

Diagnose With Data, Treat With Design

Data tells you where the problem is; only a creative process tells you how to solve it.

Dictate-and-Template AI Story Scaling

Prime ChatGPT with your team's exact template, then dictate context naturally to generate an org's worth of specs.

Self-Mastery4 steps

Dimensionality: Every Strength Is Its Own Weakness

See yourself as infinite dimensions so feedback becomes data, not an identity threat.

Dissolve the Roles: Build Small Builder Teams

Shrink teams and drop role labels so AI-empowered individuals own the whole problem.

Innovation6 steps

Diverge-Then-Converge Roadmap Reset

On a platform shift: drop the roadmap, keep the objective, let teams go crazy, then pick 4-5 bets.

Peak Performance4 steps

Engineering the Creative Peak

Single-shot coffee, a two-hour deadline, and a good night's sleep — dial in the state, not just the effort.

Ethnographic Insight Over Stated Preference

Observe what customers do, not what they say — AI transcript-reading is not true customer insight

Feedback as a Daily Practice: Opt-In, Check Intention, Name the Difficulty

Make feedback frequent and safe by pre-agreeing to it, checking your motive, and admitting it's hard.

Find-the-Nugget Angle Selection

Ignore the company's own messaging; find the single thread reporters care about and double down.

Entrepreneurship3 steps

Follow the Pull

Bet your career on the thing you enjoy, are good at, and others value — even if it's not the plan.

Founder-Led Marketing as a Goodwill Bank

Log what you learn, package it per platform, bank goodwill to spend later

Strategy2 steps

Freemium Two-Product Rule

Make the free tier good enough to spark word of mouth and the paid tier different enough to justify upgrading

Goal-Talent-Purpose-Process: Managing People and AI With One Playbook

Treat managing agents like managing people: same four levers, different resources.

Productivity3 steps

ICE Prioritization

Score every experiment idea on Impact, Confidence and Ease to run a high-velocity testing program fairly

Incumbent Anchoring

Position your product as taking on a household-name incumbent, never as a new category.

Leadership5 steps

Lean Team by Design: Slow Hiring, Player-Coaches, Generalists

Hire painfully slowly, replicate your first-10 DNA, and bet big on the exceptional

Make the End User Feel Like a Winner

Design agents that don't just do tasks — they make the user look good and feel like a winner.

Move the PMF Score: Reposition + Speed to Value

Raise a low product-market-fit score without changing the product — refocus expectations and collapse time-to-value

Must-Have Benefit Excavation

A three-question survey sequence that turns 'they like it' into the exact hook that acquires customers

Productivity3 steps

One Agent Per Lane

Beat context overload by running many narrow, purpose-built agents instead of one do-everything agent.

Opinionated Simplicity

Ship one compelling opinion instead of ten confusing options — you learn faster being wrong than being neutral

Self-Mastery3 steps

Passion-Project Learning (An Eval for Your Life)

Learn new tech by picking one passion project that forces you to touch everything you need to learn

Practitioner-Sourced Wisdom

The best advice comes from people on the ground doing the thing — not from pontificators.

Product Scrapbooking

Continuously file every real-world clue about every opportunity so it's ready when the roadmap arrives.

Publication-to-Story Fit Map

Match each story type to the one publication most likely to cover it, before pitching anyone.

Pull the Thread on New Tools

Judge a new AI tool by where it'll be in a week or a month, not where it is on day one.

Self-Mastery3 steps

Raise Your Happiness Baseline

Big events only move you temporarily — the real lever is lifting the baseline you always return to.

Ramble-Mode Onboarding

Onboard an AI agent by voice-rambling everything you need, not by wiring up APIs and structured fields.

Finance5 steps

Reactive Pricing After Demand Signal

Let users pull pricing out of you, then validate willingness-to-pay and margins

Seek To Not Be Needed, But Be Valuable

Build a self-reliant team that's resilient to chaos by systematically removing yourself as a dependency.

Simple, Novel, Emotional: The Shareability Formula

Make it simple, make it show something new, make it feel something — then cut the cleverness.

Innovation3 steps

Solve the Problem Behind the Problem

When an agent can't do a task, escalate API-to-browser, then reframe to the underlying need it can solve.

Strategy Activation via Crossing the Chasm

Treat internal strategy rollout as an adoption curve — over-communicate the why and manage early adopters vs laggards

Communication4 steps

Street-Smart Decision-Making

Give the customer's perception as much weight as your logic — model the narrative, not just the numbers.

Strategy7 steps

The Carve-Out Cohort Turnaround

To fix a load-bearing product, secede from the metrics system with a small randomized cohort.

The Contrarian Coverage-Gap Angle

Give reporters the bold opposing view on a trending topic they're already covering positively.

The Direct Funding Pitch

Pitch funding news by pattern-matching a beat reporter and stating the deal in three sentences.

Entrepreneurship4 steps

The Durable Wrapper Test

Own a workflow you care about for a decade, then orchestrate 20 models beneath it

The First 30 Seconds Onboarding Bet

Earn the next 30 seconds by making one thing feel magical fast

The Hire-an-Agent Onboarding Model

Set up an AI agent exactly like you'd onboard a human EA: own identity, delegated access, earned trust.

Influence3 steps

The IC Compensation Anchor

Believe your IC worth, then neutralize the 'grow into management' pay dodge by naming your non-management intent up front.

The Internal-Signal Quality Bar

It's done when it makes YOU laugh or tear up — not when someone else approves it.

The Jargon-Strip Clarity Test

Say what your product does out loud in plain answers; if the writing can't match, strip the jargon.

The Lightweight-First Outreach Opener

Open cold with a one-line 'are you open to ideas?' instead of a full pitch, to earn a reply.

Mindset3 steps

The Lindy Commitment Test

However long you've sustained something is roughly how much longer you can trust it to last.

Marketing5 steps

The Micro-Influencer Wide-Net Playbook

Skip the big creators; onboard thousands of trusted micro-influencers like teammates

Communication4 steps

The Relentless Iteration Loop

Read-through, add, repeat 50-100 times, set aside, return — then hand to editors. That's the secret.

Innovation4 steps

The Same-Day Prototype Validation Loop

Idea in the morning, real users testing by afternoon, decision by evening

The Sean Ellis Test

A one-question survey that reveals product-market fit before your retention data can

Entrepreneurship3 steps

The Sharp Problem

Build for old, enduring needs re-imagined with new tech so the improvement is 3-10x undeniable

The Shipyard Team

Organize product work as a six-capability pod of controlled chaos with sensory 'tendrils' to customers

Strategy4 steps

The Two Departments That Matter Test

Find the 1-2 departments whose 10x effort produces a 10x company outcome, then work there.

Strategy4 steps

The Word-of-Mouth Machine PMF Test

Real product-market fit is organic pull, not award-winning launch spikes

Marketing5 steps

Value Delivery Engine: Activation-First Growth Sequence

Fix conversion, engagement, referral and revenue before you obsess over acquisition

Leadership6 steps

We Might Be Wrong, But We Are Not Confused

Make being wrong cheap and being confused unacceptable, in both thought and execution.