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Build for the Future Model

Design product ideas for the model capability that is coming, not the one you have today

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Build Infrastructure, Not Features

Ask 'what has to be true so anyone could build this in an hour?' and build that instead.

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Calories Per Hour: Intensity Over Hours

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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.

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Choose the Hard Path

When choosing between options, pick the harder one because it wins whether or not it works out.

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Core-Behavior Synthetic Training

Ship an AI feature by naming its 3-4 core behaviors and teaching them with model-generated data

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Eval-First AI Product Development

Define what 'correct' looks like as evals first; the spec becomes the scorecard, not the build instructions

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Full-Stack Relationship Orgs

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

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Job Trials Over Interviews

Interviews don't predict performance; make the interview as close to the real job as possible.

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Meeting Armageddon

Once a year, delete every recurring meeting and forbid new ones for two weeks.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Merge With the Unreasonable

Don't try to become a visionary; find one and connect your APIs to theirs.

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Optimizing for Feelings

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

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Pair Programming as a Management Tool

Two people on one computer isn't half the code, it's the fastest path to the right code.

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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.

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Prompting-as-Prototyping

Validate a product idea by prompting a model in a local browser before building anything

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Communication4 steps

Radical Trust Building

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

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The D5/D7 Ungameable North Star

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

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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.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

The Personal Values Framework for Career Decisions

Write down what you actually care about, then reject anything that violates it, no matter how shiny.

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Leadership4 steps

The Six-Week Review Operating Cadence

Short, frequent check-ins where leaders pair on problems, not catch you slacking, create velocity.

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Leadership5 steps

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.

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Values as a Mirror

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

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