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Advise Like an Investor: The Company Selection Filter

Your advisory portfolio is an investment portfolio — pick for the liquidity event, not the logo

AI Answer Box Keyword Triage

Segment your keywords by intent, quarantine the informational ones, and start teaching the AI

Self-Mastery3 steps

Anger as a Secondary Emotion

Before reacting in anger, name the fear or hurt beneath it — connecting emotions replace the distancing one

Strategy4 steps

Bezos's Three Tests for a New Bet

Big idea, right owner, legitimate plan — an idea needs all three or it dies

Influence3 steps

Bring the Insight to Win Over Skeptics

Earn trust from more-experienced people by owning customer insight, not by faking expertise

Strategy4 steps

Build for Where the Models Are Going

Design products for the capability one to two years out, not today's model ceiling.

Category-Attribute Fit

Don't pick a market then decide how to win. Work out what wins there, and only pick markets where that's who you are.

Mindset5 steps

Conditioned Response Interception

Spot the reflex, intercept it, choose differently: a 30-year narrative, rewritten daily

Productivity4 steps

Context-First Agent Debugging

When a coding agent won't do what you want, treat it as a missing-context problem, not a model problem.

Mindset4 steps

Don't Stop Until You Reach the End

Distrust expert answers and drive every problem to ground-truth yourself

Mindset5 steps

Float Down River (Surrender Over Summit)

Stop climbing mountains that only reveal more mountains: go mummy mode and follow the current

Full-Stack Relationship Orgs

Replace support, success, research, PR and marketing with two teams that own a human relationship end to end.

Influence4 steps

Guild Nights

Six interesting people, one topic, at your house, catered — the highest-ROI network you can build

Productivity3 steps

Hand the Toil to the Model First

Delegate the boring, repetitive parts of engineering to agents before anything else, and collapse the path to production.

Hire Founders (Eyes Open to the Costs)

Recruit ex-founders for outsized output and truth-telling, budgeting for high attrition

Hire the People That People Pick

Win great hires over months by adding value first, long before there's a role

Mindset3 steps

How Might the Opposite Be True

Break a scarcity or false-tradeoff frame by forcing yourself to argue the reverse

Inquiry Before Advice (Be a Thought Partner)

Resist giving advice — explore first, keep the monkey on their back, and develop the person instead of the answer

Self-Mastery3 steps

Learning Curve, Environment, Problem

Evaluate whether to stay in or leave a role using three questions, not job titles

Optimizing for Feelings

Name the emotion the product must evoke, build to that, and use metrics only as an honesty check.

Communication3 steps

Pinch Before Crunch

Raise small irritations early, while they're still a pinch, before they compound into a relationship-damaging crunch

Marketing3 steps

Product-Led SEO

Treat SEO as a product you build for the search user, not content you optimize for a keyword.

Programmatic vs Editorial Decision Rule

Go programmatic only where scale meets a real use case — otherwise you scale nothing.

Project-Chosen Leads and the Mutt Hire

PM is a role on a project, not a department — and you staff it with multi-disciplinary makers, not title-holders.

Radical Trust Building

Not radical transparency — let people know you as humans, so the permission dialog gets the benefit of the doubt.

Self-Mastery4 steps

Reflex Archaeology (Pen-and-Paper Truth Seeking)

List your most reactive moments, then ask why until it hurts or lands: every reflex has a root

Repair: What Did You Hear Me Say?

When a response feels wildly off, ask 'what did you hear me say?' — then re-try from what they actually heard

SEO Conversion-Metric Rigor

Rankings and traffic are not results. Hold SEO to the same efficiency standard as paid.

Productivity3 steps

Single-Owner Review Limits

Cap reviews, approvals, and meeting size so one accountable owner drives the pace

Situation-Behavior-Impact Feedback

Deliver hard feedback as an undeniable subjective observation, not a verdict

Startup-Within-a-Company Team Design

Build new things inside big companies with small, senior, trusted teams and manufactured discipline

The 15% Rule

Step just 15% beyond your comfort zone to deepen relationships without triggering the danger zone

Mindset5 steps

The Adaptation That Overshoots

The strategy that saved you as a child is the one wrecking your life as an adult

Communication3 steps

The Art of Inquiry

Ask genuine what/when/where/how questions from real curiosity — never 'why', never to confirm a hypothesis

Self-Mastery7 steps

The Bootloader: Structured Morning Self-Reflection

Boot the day with exercise, then run an hour of red-yellow-green review across every role in your life

The Career-Stage PM Skill Stack

Master three skills as a junior PM, three different ones as a senior — not all twelve at once

The Cascading Metrics Review

One hour a week of public metric probing that forces every leader to actually know their business

Peak Performance4 steps

The Core-Functions Red Alarm (Burnout Triage)

Sleep, diet, exercise, play, socialisation: when the fundamentals break, your body is the scoreboard

The D5/D7 Ungameable North Star

One metric that fuses retention, engagement and growth — tracked as growth rate and cohort slope, never absolutes.

Strategy4 steps

The Differentiation Stack

Four ordered tests a product must pass to matter, not just exist

The Double Diamond Product Process

Alternate broad exploration and narrow selection across customer, problem, and solution

Self-Mastery4 steps

The Four Steps of Deep Personal Transformation

Suffer, seek truth, self-compassion, compassion for others: the order real change follows

Finance5 steps

The Front-Loaded Advisor Equity Structure

Equity only, a three-month cliff, vesting front-loaded to the value, and an exit built in

Marketing3 steps

The Funnel-Position Defense Against AI Overviews

AI answers eat top-of-funnel search. Move your SEO to where intent and conversion live.

Entrepreneurship5 steps

The Growth Advisor Sourcing and Vetting Gauntlet

Wait for PMF, source through VCs and channel-leading companies, and borrow a trusted expert to vet

Self-Mastery4 steps

The Inertia of Society (Why Transformation Stalls)

You traded individuality for acceptance before you could speak; reclaiming it is the fear

The Made-Up Name Reset

Give a team or feature a name nobody recognizes, so nobody can skip the argument about what it should be.

Communication6 steps

The Operator's Manual (Answer First)

Answer the question, then explain — or shut up. The tactical checklist for PM communication

The Pantry Test

If the idea starts with the ingredients you already have, you are not working backwards

Self-Mastery5 steps

Therapist Speed-Dating: Safety, Intellect, Router

Pick for felt safety first, intellect second; the rest is implementation detail

Strategy3 steps

The SEO Go/No-Go Investment Test

SEO is not free. Price it fully, then compare it against every other growth channel.

The SEO Staffing Stack Rank and Impact Clock

Internal expert, then a relentless doer surrounded by advisors, then agencies — and 3 to 12 months to prove it

Communication6 steps

The Six Characteristics of Exceptional Relationships

A diagnostic checklist of six qualities that mark how far a relationship sits along the contact-to-exceptional continuum

The Surgeon Management Model

Spend over half your time making your top 10% feel like a supported surgeon who can't be blocked.

The Team Is the Product

Choose the company you want to build first, pick a problem worthy of it, then treat every hire as a product launch.

Leadership7 steps

The Three-Chapter Hiring Playbook: Find, Assess, Close

Hire the top 1% by hunting signs of excellence, then closing with the whole exec team and the family

Self-Mastery3 steps

The Three E's of Career Growth

Grow faster by deliberately balancing experience, exposure, and education

The Three Realities and the Net

Stay on your side of the net — speak only to behavior and your own reaction, never the other person's motives

Influence4 steps

The Trust Equation

Trust = (credibility + reliability + authenticity) / perception of self-interest

Marketing5 steps

The Two-Bucket SEO Fit Test

Does your product mint pages by itself? The answer decides your entire SEO strategy

Productivity4 steps

The YOLO Rule: When Not to Run an Experiment

Experiments have a cost — sometimes shipping 40 things fast beats testing 10 things properly

Top-Down TAM SEO Forecast

Forecast SEO from market size down, not from keyword-tool volumes up.

Influence5 steps

Trust as Currency

Trust is built by repeatedly setting and meeting expectations — and it buys you resources

Two-Sided AI Adoption

Pair top-down executive buy-in with a bottom-up tiger team of excited power users.

Values as a Mirror

Don't author values. Interview the whole team, harvest their exact words, and write them back as a story.

Innovation5 steps

Working Backwards (Problem-First Product Development)

Start from the customer problem, not the ingredients you happen to have in the pantry