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Adapt the Model, Don't Build One

Post-training is the new pre-training — steer an off-the-shelf model to your outcome instead of pre-training your own

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Self-Mastery4 steps

AI as Undermind Mirror

Use a structured five-days-of-questions prompt to make an LLM reflect back patterns you already sense but can't articulate.

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Communication4 steps

Audience Is the Hero, Presenter Is the Mentor

You are not the hero of your presentation — the audience is; your job is to be Obi-Wan, not Luke.

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Peak Performance4 steps

Build Taste by Watching Adjacent Software

Develop design intuition by watching real people use OTHER products, not your own.

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Can They See What I'm Saying? (The Star Moment)

Make ideas visible — through a diagram, a drawn napkin, or one unforgettable star moment — so the whole room aligns on the same picture.

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Strategy3 steps

Choosing a Startup PR Agency

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

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Leadership5 steps

Culture as Calcification: The Pocket Rollout

You cannot melt an enterprise's culture — you chip it, one advocate-led pocket at a time.

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De-Ambiguate Upstream: The Brief as a Prompt

Design is slow only when the brief is vague; remove variables upstream like you'd add context to an AI prompt.

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Innovation4 steps

Delay the Primal Mark

Stay in low-fidelity blocks and conversation as long as possible before drawing anything that looks real.

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Design Tenants (Decision-Making Rules, Not Principles)

Replace feel-good design principles with 3-4 opinionated tenants that settle recurring debates for good.

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Marketing3 steps

Find-the-Nugget Angle Selection

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

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Marketing3 steps

Incumbent Anchoring

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

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Strategy4 steps

Interview for Design in the DNA

Before joining, verify the founders valued your function from the very beginning; it can't be grafted on later.

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Planning in Seasons

Replace rigid roadmaps with secular 'seasons', loose quarterly OKRs, and deliberate slack

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Innovation5 steps

Product as Organism: the metabolic loop

Treat an AI product as a living system that ingests signals, tunes on rewards, and improves with every interaction

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Marketing3 steps

Publication-to-Story Fit Map

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

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Peak Performance3 steps

Rewiring Stage Fright (The Pre-Talk Ritual)

Treat nerves as fight-or-flight chemistry and deliberately reset your body and mental model before you walk on.

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Marketing5 steps

Soft Launch / Hard Launch Decoupling

Let engineering ship when it's ready and let marketing launch when they're ready — never on the same date.

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Communication7 steps

The Conference Talk Prep Loop

Narrative before slides, rehearse until it's automatic, then own the room before anyone is in it.

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Communication3 steps

The Contrarian Coverage-Gap Angle

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

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Communication3 steps

The Direct Funding Pitch

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

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Strategy5 steps

The Elevator-Pitch Product Vision Template

Fill six slots — customer, need, name, category, reason to buy, differentiation — and you have a vision statement.

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Strategy3 steps

The Enterprise AI Adoption Ladder

Three sequential stages that separate companies winning with AI from those spinning their wheels

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Communication3 steps

The Jargon-Strip Clarity Test

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

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Communication3 steps

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.

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Strategy6 steps

The Now-Next-Later Roadmap

Replace the Gantt timeline with three confidence buckets so plans get vaguer as they get further out.

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Strategy4 steps

The Roadmap as a Prototype for Your Strategy

Treat the roadmap like a design mock-up: its value is in the feedback it provokes, not the document itself.

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Influence4 steps

The Sales Team Parity Argument

Ask for exactly the accountability sales gets: budget, experiments, and outcomes — not named deals on named dates.

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Communication4 steps

The Slide Doc Spectrum (One Point, One Big Idea)

Match slide density to the medium — cinematic stage to circulated slide doc — while every slide makes one point serving one big idea.

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Leadership5 steps

The Torchbearer Five-Act Movement Structure

Lead change as a movement across five acts — Dream, Leap, Fight, Climb, Arrive — fueling the right emotion at each phase.

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Leadership4 steps

Values, Not Behaviors: The Culture Car Wash

When you change companies, keep the values that got you hired but recalibrate the behaviors to the new culture.

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Communication4 steps

What Is / What Could Be (The Presentation Sparkline)

Alternate between current reality and a better future to create longing that moves an audience to act.

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Strategy3 steps

Win on the Platform, Not the Features

Durable products win on invisible infrastructure — reliability, reach, privacy — not on the feature list

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