Productivity

This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit coaching app (Nintee) in 2024. It didn’t ultimately work out because an app has marginal influence in ...

Multiple teams were stuck in a morass. We were endlessly debating how a product that cut across multiple Product Groups and different apps would work, and it felt like we were trapped in endless debat...

A single word of advice, given to all startups, and to CEOs of large companies, and they in turn to their teams: “Focus!” But what does that mean, precisely? And anyway isn’t quantity sometimes in fac...

Founding a company is a selfish act. It will consume every waking moment for the next 1-10 years. It’s an act of defiance and irreverence towards competitors and the status quo. This matches the life ...

In an all-hands discussion at Austin Texas’s premier startup incubator Capital Factory, one of the founders started a question with a well-worn preamble: “A bunch of mentors told me the same thing abo...