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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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Productivity5 steps

Context Is All You Need Prompting

Treat the model as a brilliant stranger with zero context, and supply what a colleague would already know.

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Mindset5 steps

Dancing With Your Fears

Price the cost of inaction, then stop trying to kill the fears that won't die — have a conversation with them.

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Strategy5 steps

Engineering Financial Space

Convert your job into a contract, cut the burn, and buy back time without a clean break.

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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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Leadership4 steps

High Agency, High Urgency Hiring Filter

Hire for two traits only — people who see a problem and go, and people who go now.

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Mindset3 steps

Measure in Hundreds

If your unit of measurement is one hundred attempts, five failures means you have effectively tried zero times.

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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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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Ship, Quit, and Learn

Design the smallest thing you can ship that is built to be quit — then let shipping it tell you what's next.

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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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Mindset4 steps

The 3-of-500 Months Sabbatical

Frame a sabbatical as 3 months out of a ~500-month working life, and budget 6-8 weeks just to unwind.

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Innovation4 steps

The Better Tool, Same Problems Lens

Every model leap gets normalised within months — build for the boring future, not the euphoric one.

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Leadership4 steps

The Constrained-Resource Headcount Test

When the bottleneck isn't people, each new hire is a net productivity loss unless they uplevel everyone.

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Peak Performance4 steps

The Energy Audit

After every activity, log energised or drained — then do more of one and less of the other.

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Finance5 steps

The Life MBA Reframe

Set a runway budget, name it an investment in yourself, and give people a socially legible story for it.

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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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Influence5 steps

The Path Expert Conversation

Find someone a few years ahead on the path you're curious about, and offer them written questions.

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Strategy5 steps

The Platform Encroachment Test

Build where the platform's mission says it will never go — the general layer is not yours to own.

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Strategy4 steps

The Proxy Goal Ladder

Every metric you chase is a proxy — climb the ladder to the mission before you optimise it.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

The Three-Hour Work Mindfulness Experiment

Steal three hours from a workday, do something purposeless, and study the guilt that shows up.

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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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