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Innovation
Innovation isn't invention — it's the disciplined practice of solving real problems in new ways, then shipping before it's perfect.
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Hell Yeah You Can Be Employed & An Entrepreneur!
Being employed and an entrepreneur aren't mutually exclusive. Figure out what success looks like for your business, match it to the time you can realistically spend, and build both simultaneously.
Four questions to help start your side business
I use four anchors to validate your business idea before you build: your specific primary user, the one job they need done, the exact context they're in, and the single metric that proves it works.
Five bullship excuses you need to get over right now
Stop waiting for perfect. Ship something good enough now, fail fast to learn, make time by defining what success actually means to you, build with almost no money, and hunt ideas by noticing what…
What should you build next - Honest answers to Reddit business questions
Stop guessing what to build next. Listen to what your customers are actually doing with your product, balance that against your own intuition, then ship it.
Ideas are not businesses... BUT THEY CAN BE!
I spent 20 years learning what not to do. Now I'm helping people shortcut those mistakes and turn ideas into actual businesses. It's just as rewarding as building things myself.
Why "Doing Nothing" is actually the secret to success
Constant grinding gets you halfway. The other half is patience—building a real plan and letting it actually play out instead of constantly tweaking it.
Why 'We're At War' Means You're About to Get Screwed
When leaders call work a 'war,' they've usually run out of incentives and ideas. Why boardroom war talk is a lazy manipulation to make you work harder for less, and what to ask when you next hear it.
Five things I did to build a killer team
How I fixed a team that couldn't ship: less process, more trust. The Dunbar number, why high-trust low-process teams win, and the five moves I made to build a team that actually delivers.
Everything I love about being unemployed
Two weeks after leaving full-time work, a raw update: reclaiming my own hours, making meetings a choice, ditching micromanagement, and watching the confidence the job chipped away come rushing back.
Is your business idea viable AND valuable?
For 15 years we obsessed over whether an idea was viable. AI made building nearly free, so viability isn't the question anymore. The real one: is it valuable, to your user and to you?
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