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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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Marketing3 steps

Credits-for-Sharing Loop

Pay users in product credits to publicly share what they built — turn usage into free distribution.

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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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Peak Performance3 steps

Exposure Hours

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

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Peak Performance3 steps

Genius-Zone Time Budget

Spend at least 50% of your time on the work you're both great at and love — it's what keeps you showing up.

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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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Innovation4 steps

LLM-Optimized Codebase Architecture

Structure your repo so the AI writes the least code possible — infrastructure absorbs the complexity.

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Marketing4 steps

Milestone-Gated Launch Sequence

Don't spend a dollar on marketing until users start sharing your product unprompted.

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Strategy4 steps

Negotiate From Genuine Indifference

The best position to sell your company is being genuinely fine not selling it.

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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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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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Marketing4 steps

Single-Channel Build-in-Public Bet

Find the one channel that resonates with your exact audience, then double and triple down.

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Strategy4 steps

Speed-to-Aha Over Best Product

Sometimes the correct product decision hurts the aha moment — cut it and get users to magic 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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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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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 In-Product Feedback Loop

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

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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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