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Your dreams demand your best hours
a short reflection on the inequality of time
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Anu
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Intellectualism Goes Mass-Market
Substack wants to be the final boss of the creator economy, even as it cringes at the term itself.
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Anu
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Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.
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Anu
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Cool Self
A theory of life about searching for your best.
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Anu
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The Rise of the Software Creator
Theory #42 | In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
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Anu
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Writer-Builders
Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man
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Early-Arriver Arbitrage
Theory #35 | The arena rewards those who arrive early.
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Pursuits That Can’t Scale
Theory #31 | For people who aspire to build things that do
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Anu
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Love the Mission or Love the Game
Theory #30 | Are you a Type I or Type II entrepreneur?
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Anu
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Companionship Content is King
Theory #29 | Why short-form video has a ceiling & how companionship content escapes it.
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Anu
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Status Limbo
To get status, you have to give up status.
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Anu
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One-Round Wonder
Theory #23 | Can a startup have the best of both bootstrapped and venture funded paths?
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