Product
The second product problem
Why the second product usually comes too early: how it starves the first, the real reasons founders reach for it, and the test for whether a company is actually ready to build one.
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focus
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Articles tagged focus
Mindset
The 90-minute morning ritual
Morning routine content promises productivity gains, but only two findings survive scrutiny: circadian light exposure and the cost of phone-first mornings.
Mindset
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.
Mindset
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.
Mindset
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.
Mindset
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.
Mindset
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.