Balancing Act

Balancing Act

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The Wedge Trap

Stop Being a Tourist

A Random Walk

Entering the DOS era of AI

Overnight Success

Main Character

Taking Pride

Don’t Get One-Shotted

Earn the right

Capital Isn't Destiny

The Best Companies Are Dictatorships

Defaults Matter

You need to hire a Vibe Marketer

The Self-Driving Company

To AI or Not to AI

The Pendulum Keeps Swinging

Talk to my twin

A Letter to Founders

The work behind the work is dead

Care requires conflict

Generated Worlds

Letter to CS Grads of 2025

Memory Changes Everything

Don't do it for X

The Missing Loop in AI

Simple is hard

On deferred gratification

The Conductor's Era

Fork this

Stop solving champagne problems

Trust is the only moat

Function, not form

Clockspeed

Create > Consume

Everything is sales

Local Maximum

Fight Inertia

Beyond Chat

Sweat the Details

Be Proactive

Get discovered by AI or die

Mandatory Fun

Icebergs

Share your obsession

Say the damn thing

Be Vulnerable

The Last Mile of Enterprise Data

Act like an Owner

Don't Look at the Clock

Rise of Asynchronous Intelligence

Fragmentation is a feature, not a bug

Hotkey Startups

Curiosity Is The Only Wall

Vanity Theatre

Software Spend Goes Parabolic

Do Hard Things

I'm Not Good Enough

Software Has Made Us Soft

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