Humans tend to favor solutions that add features rather than solutions that remove them, even when removing features is more efficient. And, in business, customers will tell you when you’re missing something they need, but they’re unlikely to explicitly tell you when you’re overwhelming them with unwanted features.
1 min read Oct 04, 2024
This document is a draft of the vision and strategy for a company I’m thinking of creating. It’s a work in progress and will be updated as I refine my thoughts.
5 min read Jul 23, 2024
Usually, smart people know that great days are very uncommon. They know that people most of the time suck and the best approach is not to look for incredible gains but rather small, compounded, improvements. However, we tend to think about the bad days the same as the average ones—“It was just a bad day”. Or worse, we don’t think about bad days at all. We think in terms of compounded improvements, but never in compounded failure.
1 min read Feb 28, 2024
This is my go-to advice (extracted from Paul Graham’s Superlinear Returns essay) for ambitious individuals seeking to make something people want. It precisely articulates what they should do and is concise enough to re-read it often.
1 min read Jan 14, 2024
As always, my writing is influenced by my learning. Recently, I was revisiting a blog post from around 2014 about hacker culture and the art of asking smart questions in technical open forums. I’ve taken the ideas from that post and applied them to a wider range of situations. You should read this guide to improve your question skills and increase your chances of receiving a satisfactory answer.
11 min read Oct 13, 2023