Your IQ literally drops when you're heated. The part of your brain that handles logic checks out. Leaves you with the part that wants to fight or flee. That's when we make our worst decisions. Break trust with a team member. Send the relationship-ending text. Make the

Everyone is busy at early stage companies. You're either proactively working to level up your task list or waiting for someone else to do that for you. The ones who focus on the former succeed and thrive. The ones who wait for it to come to them, don't. It's that simple.

Everyone agrees with everything on LinkedIn. Everyone disagrees with everything on X. Gotta be a happy median. Maybe that's what real life is for.

Leadership isn't about being the hero of your own story. It's about making everyone else the hero of theirs. Your job isn't to cross the finish line first. It's to make sure everyone believes they belong in the race. Don't create followers. Create more leaders. Do it by

I don't know a single truly successful person with a scarcity mindset. The ones who make it big cheer everyone on, even their competitors. Sounds backwards. But the pie's not fixed. When the category grows, everyone grows. So their success doesn't shrink yours. And when you

You can't be friends with people who work for you. I don't buy into this philosophy. I think you can. And believe it can an advantage in leadership. You just have to be willing to piss off your friends (who are also team members) more often then you do with people who are

The best operators aren't the ones who can take the most punishment. They're the ones who refuse to. I used to pride myself on being the guy who could handle anything. Any timeline. Any ask. Any amount of chaos. Until I realized I wasn't scaling the business. I was enabling

One of the biggest turning points in an early stage business is when you stop thinking it's cool that the business flies by the seat of its pants. And start realizing that it's limiting growth.

he biggest sales job you'll ever make isn't to your customers. It's to yourself. Because it's the stories in your head determine the stories you tell the world. If you're telling yourself you're an imposter, that's exactly what you'll project in every meeting. If you're

Taking one step towards anything new will do a few important things for you. First, it reveals the next step. There’s value in mapping out a step by step plan, but the step you actually take is the only thing will bring the next one into focus. It also helps you decide if

Pretty sure I’d be a banger podcast host. Maybe everyone thinks that tho.

Everything is harder to do than what it's sold to you as.

Everyone's building a personal brand. But personal credibility should be the goal. Personal brand is what you tell people you are. Personal credibility is what you prove you are. You can buy a personal brand. Hire a ghostwriter. Use AI to pump out content. Get those vanity

The most dangerous moment in your business isn't failure. It's moderate success. Failure forces you to pivot. To hustle. To question everything. But moderate success is where businesses go to die (slowly). You're making enough to justify the status quo. Not enough to really

We've normalized something insane. Two people on the same team typing at each other for 35 minutes. The problem is typing gives us time to be clever. To craft the perfect comeback. To sound right while being wrong. Talking forces us to be human. No edit button. No screenshots

I walked into MALK on day one. Asked why we did things a certain way. "That's how we've always done it." Red flag. Your processes aren't best practices. They're fossils. Fresh eyes see the waste you've gone blind to. Here's what to do: Hire people who are curious and

I think I’m too open minded to other people’s opinions to be successful on DTC Twitter.

There's no finish line where suddenly you feel like you made it. No magic number that makes the doubt disappear. No age where you finally stop comparing yourself to the 28-year-old who just raised $50M. We're all out here pretending we're on schedule while secretly terrified

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