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The walk: what the research actually says about thinking on your feet
Walking reliably boosts divergent thinking and does little for convergent problem-solving. The founder accounts line up with the data better than most productivity claims.
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Focus, doubt, energy, and decision-making. The internal work behind building a company.
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Always-available founders: the cost
Founder availability reads as commitment. The research on attention, after-hours work, and the founder bottleneck says it teaches the team to stop deciding.
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Imposter syndrome at year five
Imposter syndrome at year five is not the year-one version aged. It is the gap between what you built and what people assume you built. Here is why that distinction matters.
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The discipline of shipping ugly
Ship ugly does not mean ship broken. Linear, Basecamp, and Reid Hoffman all point to the same narrow target: minimum aesthetic, maximum function.
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Founder advice that aged worst
Five iconic pieces of founder advice that failed to generalize when capital got scarce, users got picky, and remote work got real.
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The script for saying no
Derek Sivers, Tim Ferriss, and Warren Buffett all have famous scripts for saying no. Each works in its domain. None works everywhere.
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Decision journals: the practice, the science, the templates
Annie Duke, Shane Parrish, and Daniel Kahneman all prescribe decision journals. Here is what the evidence says and how to build one that works.
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Finding focus when your team is split across four time zones
Practical advice for founders running teams across several time zones, past the surface-level instruction to simply go async.