Some people who succeed wildly in school don’t achieve their apparent potential in the business world. Some others who do okay (or worse) in school manage to build an extremely successful life. Why is that? What we learn in school & must unlearn in business & in life: (1/10)

Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

In today's 996 chest-thumping culture, don't forget about the quiet ones keeping your company together..

SHOWING TRACTION BEFORE YOU HAVE TRACTION Everybody knows that startups thrive when they have “real” traction — that is revenue, active users, great retention curves, and a fast growth rate. However, startups also find themselves in a catch-22 where they're not able to raise

Risk management 101. Setup clear constraints and non-negotiables first, only then take risk without breaching those. The act of setting what you can't *absolutely* breach will give you clarity and freedom to take bold bets and play freely.

My father died of cancer two years ago. A family member in her twenties was just diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. In a month, I become a father myself. I've been thinking about the noise. When life is smooth, your brain manufactures a hundred urgent things. Career pivots.

Looking for an HR generalist who knows that great recruiting is about finding people who make everyone else better. What you'll actually do: Build a recruitment engine that finds exceptional people before they're looking. The best talent doesn't apply to job boards. Design

When people tell you that you’re “too serious” or “too intense” - take it as a compliment. Most people are too casual with the most important things in life.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I

India is treating the AI wave like the SaaS wave. And that’s going to backfire. The SaaS wave was a very specific kind of win. We didn’t win because our products were always elegant. We won because we had two blunt arbitrages the market rewarded for years: we were cheap, and we

The number of UPI Autopay mandates that get declined is massive! Only 10% of Airtel Payments Bank’s UPI Autopay mandates are approved — meaning over 90% are BD (business declines). Officially, BD refers to transactions failing due to a low balance, daily limits or an incorrect

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iOS vs Android of AI is here guys.

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

Openclaw's Peter Steinberger 🦞 at Y Combinator; takeaways All apps will become APIs or disappear Apps that will remain will be games or sensor-heavy Your agent, not you, will be the primary consumer of software Personal AI agents will quietly take over daily workflows We are possibly

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Google and Microsoft just co-authored the spec that turns every website into an API for AI agents. The second-order effects here are massive. Right now, browser agents work by taking screenshots, parsing the DOM, and guessing which buttons to click. It works about as well as

True divide that matters is between "Nothing ever happens" people and "You can just do things" people.