Reading paths
Short, ordered sets of notes. Start at the top and keep going.
- Start here: agency
For when you feel stuck: six short pieces on acting before you're ready.
- Before you leave for college
For anyone about to leave home: advice to a younger self, a story about speed, a few big ideas, and a letter about ordinary Tuesdays.
- Getting comfortable being bad at things
For when you're new at something and it shows: five pieces on looking dumb, filling in the gaps, and failing on purpose.
- The decision you keep putting off
For when you know something has to change but keep putting off the call: one hard look at the question, then small steps that add up.
- How do I choose what to work on?
For when you're picking a job or a direction: the wrong hill, the one metric that doesn't lie, and why to search far wider than feels normal.
- How do you make your own luck?
For anyone who thinks luck just happens: five pieces on taking more shots, leaving a trail, and staying in the game long enough to get lucky.
- How do you start something from nothing?
For anyone with an idea and nothing else yet: dream big, call it a project, find your first users by hand, and do more than seems sane.
- Why do teams slow down as they grow?
For anyone building with other people: what the fastest teams in history did differently, and what quietly slows the rest down.
- Why doesn't anyone get what I mean?
For when you said it clearly and it still didn't land: five short pieces on why explaining fails and what works instead.
- Whose advice should I take?
A path about advice, on a site full of it: whose to copy, why it all contradicts itself, and how to end up with your own list.
- How to think more clearly
For when you want to see things more clearly: five short pieces on noticing detail, catching empty explanations, and why pessimism sounds smart.
- Is everything getting worse?
For when the news makes everything feel like it's falling apart: why the past looks better and the future worse than either really is.