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Strategy6 steps

Breadth-Then-Depth Platform Strategy

Go wide to discover your niche, then put all your wood behind the few arrows that lift the rest

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Productivity5 steps

Celebrate Adoption, Not Shipping

Replace hours and feature counts with customer-adoption outcomes teams can actually steer toward

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Communication5 steps

Clear Is Kind: The Three-Sentence Correction

State the failure, state your belief in them, hand them the responsibility — starting tomorrow

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Self-Mastery5 steps

Conjecture-Driven Learning (Collecting and Connecting Dots)

Don't consume content — generate a conjecture, then hunt across every field for proof of it.

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Finance3 steps

Day One vs Day 100 Feature Packaging

Free the features that create the aha moment; monetize the features whose value only emerges at scale.

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Sales3 steps

Enterprise Price-Ceiling Discovery

Keep asking for more until deals break; losing 20-30% to price is how you find the ceiling.

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Leadership5 steps

Handbook-as-Code

Treat how the company operates as a versioned repo anyone can submit a merge request against

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Strategy5 steps

Lowercase-c vs Capital-C: AI-Proofing Your Skill Stack

Sort every task into what AI does 80% well and what only a human can do — then invest accordingly

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Influence5 steps

Manufacture the Room (Bending the Universe)

Decide which room you must be in, then engineer a legitimate reason to be standing in it

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Finance3 steps

Match Price to Value with a Value Metric

Pick the unit of value your customer gets, then charge against it so revenue scales as usage grows.

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Productivity4 steps

One Click Faster (Clock Speed Management)

Three tactics to raise an organization's pace without lowering its bar

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Finance3 steps

Price Your Product Like Your Roadmap

Treat pricing as a living system revisited every 6-12 months, not a set-and-forget decision.

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Strategy5 steps

Reading a Market Through ARPU and Profit Pools

ARPU is capped by per-capita income; a country's profit pools reveal what it actually values.

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Innovation6 steps

Right Model for the Right Use Case

Route each AI feature to a model chosen for that job, not one popular LLM stretched over everything

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Communication5 steps

Short Toes

Engineer feedback so it lands on the work, never the person — the async collaboration protocol

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Leadership4 steps

The Absurd-Scenario Interview (Screening for Second-Order Thinking)

Pose an impossible hypothetical and grade the chain of consequences, not the answer.

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Peak Performance5 steps

The Apex Survivor Model (Metabolism, Conversion, Adaptation)

Species that lasted 100M years share three traits — run your company on the same three.

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Finance3 steps

The Cross-Functional Pricing Process

Stand up a pricing committee, mine demand and willingness-to-pay with structured surveys, then set price.

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Leadership5 steps

The Deep Dive PM Interview

Make candidates write real async requirements and defend them — a two-way test for remote PM fit

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Innovation5 steps

The Delta 4 Framework

Score old vs new solution out of 10; if the efficiency gap isn't 4+, the product won't stick.

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Strategy4 steps

The Low-Trust Market Playbook

In low-trust markets, trust concentrates — so focus becomes a curse and the super app wins.

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Leadership5 steps

The Org Chart With Your Name On It

Win the promotion by solving your boss's org problem, not by asking for your next title

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Leadership5 steps

The Remote-First Operating Stack

Five mechanisms that make an all-remote company across 60+ countries actually work

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Innovation5 steps

The Technology Wave Specialization Ladder

Ratchet down on a new technology while it's still weird — teardown, no-code, then fun build

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Leadership5 steps

The Transparency Ramp

Default everything to public except three named exceptions, then ramp until it feels uncomfortable

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Leadership5 steps

The Values-Obedience 2x2 (Krishna, Rama, and Founder Dharma)

Plot leaders on values x obedience to see who creates, who sustains, and who must never be hired.

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Mindset5 steps

The Why School (Training Second-Order Thinking)

One 'why' question per meal, answered the next day — how second-order thinking gets built.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Zone of Genius Calendar Audit

Bucket last quarter's calendar by joy, then ask what only you can do

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