The List

If you’re new to my writing, here’s the full list of essays that live on this blog. I’ve also put together a shorter list that I’ll keep updated — my “must reads.”

(P.S. Some of the older essays may be paywalled halfway through if they’re in the archive now, but the first parts should be interesting on their own.)

Popular*

On creative work, motivation & ambition

• Status Limbo

• Pursuits That Can’t Scale

• Love the Mission or Love the Game

• Trophy Jobs

• Early-Arriver Arbitrage

• Hands-On, Thumbs-Off

On the future of startups, investing, & media

• Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

• One-Round Wonder

• Big TAM Founders, Small TAM Startups

• The Generational Business Trap

• Companionship Content Is King

On the science of building products

• Don't Build A Social Network, Build A Social Utility

• Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Products

• Great Products Have Great Premises

• Don’t Build Habits, Build Rituals

• What I Learned at Clubhouse

Some of these essays have been featured by Substack or other publications and magazines. You can also check out my new year post with 24 top-of-mind ideas.

Full List

• 3 Hours or Nothing

• How to "Go Direct"

• The Taste Subsidy

• On Airchat

• "New Social App"

• New Media, New Standards

• Hands-On, Thumbs-Off*

• Placeholders of Life

• Early-Arriver Arbitrage*

• Rabbitholes as Portals

• Second Encounters

• The Time-Boxed Startup

• The New Wordmark

• Great Products Have Great Premises*

• The Creator Search Fund

• Time-to-Lameness

• Pursuits That Can’t Scale*

• Love the Mission or Love the Game*

• Books Are the New Athleisure

• Crypto Social Games

• Companionship Content is King*

• “Healthy” Social Apps

• 5 Years of Angel Investing

• Status Limbo*

• The 20/20 Workweek

• Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Products*

• 24 Working Theorys for 2024

• The Idea That Won't Go Away

• One-Round Wonder*

• How to Do Business School Right

• Don't Build a Social Network, Build a Social Utility*

• The "High Potential" Handicap

• Big TAM Founders, Small TAM Startups*

• Why Are All the Public Intellectuals Men?

• Full-Stack Something

• The Brunch Test

• Unbundling Cash & Equity

• Define the Game

• Trophy Jobs*

• The Generational Business Trap*

• Generalized AI Anxiety

• Product vs. Production

• Collective Experiences

• Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business*

• What I Learned at Clubhouse*

• Ritual Social*

• Community Fission & Fusion

• The Group Chat Renaissance

• Group-Generated Content

• The Revival of Consumer Social

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