Building benefits tech, halfway to 100 countries, and thinking out loud about philosophy.
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The paradox of being a great product leader:
you're not all in on your product, you're all in on your customer.
I've seen PMs get frustrated when the roadmap changes. That's actually a good sign.
The perfect roadmap isn't one that never changes. It's one that evolves as fast as the market does.
After years of building on my own, I'm now building with a company that serves entrepreneurs.
Solopreneur, corporate, 0-to-1 startup builder. If you've never fit neatly into one lane, maybe you were never meant to.
Unique experience is underrated.
Don’t let a messenger you don’t like keep you from getting a message you need.
Learn 2x as fast if you learn from both the best and the worst around you.
Is it that lovers of history become empathetic to others, or is it that empathetic people become lovers of history?
I don’t often find one without the other in a person - perhaps because both involve putting yourself in another’s shoes.
Feeling bad doesn’t mean you’re doing bad, it’s natural to feel stuck sometimes.
Recognize those feelings and choose actions that aren’t controlled by them.
You don’t have to act the way you feel, you can act as if you feel amazing—and that’s how you break free from the rut.
Aspiration is the combination of inspiration and reality.
Only inspirational makes it just a dream.
Only realistic means it’s just work.
Bringing these two together is how an idea becomes a movement and changes the world.
The promise of communism: you will no longer be exploited by the Rich Man.
The promise of capitalism: work hard and you can become the Rich Man.
Neither promise is guaranteed, but one works best with the true nature of man and his ego.
Being indecisive lulls us into a sleep, and time will fly until we finally wake up again.
Choice brings responsibility, responsibility is often accompanied by fear.
That’s okay. You can’t run a marathon without getting tired, and you can’t do important work when you’re asleep.
Youth have time and energy but don’t fully grasp their value. The elderly, with less vitality, deeply understand time's worth & find peace in stillness.
Who holds the true advantage—those with energy & time ahead, or those with wisdom & appreciation for life’s fleeting moments?
My wife’s winning social media strategy: don’t read comments…on any post.
This is great because:
- Too many troll bots
- 0 accountability, so 0 quality
- Algorithm prioritizes mob-think
It’s concerning to see, even on my curated feed, the intentional distortion of reality.
You don’t get what you thought you wanted because you’re about to get what was really meant for you.
It’s usually better to do the thing you’ve been putting off suboptimally than to wait.
Do some initial prep, and then go after it.
Delaying will only inflate the problem and delude you into thinking more prep is needed.
The moment your words leave your mouth, they no longer belong to you.
So be thoughtful of what you share and with whom.
Being a giver has amazing benefits, but in the past, it caused me problems.
I felt like I needed to figure everything out on my own, and I didn’t ask for help from my friends and family.
Then I reframed it to “asking means giving someone a chance to help”, and that’s a win-win.
The better you manage your ego, the better the leader you can be:
- Take all the blame
- Give away the credit
- Give more than you ask
- Listen more than you speak
Leaders trade short term validation for the delayed gratification of long term outcomes.
Many people focus more on the narrative than on results. Talking vs doing.
The narrative approach gets you quick gratification, but can become conditioned into a bad habit.
Unless you’re campaigning for election, best to bias towards results.