Invest your time before you invest your money. Start running before you buy running shoes. Build something before you buy the domain. Learn via YouTube before paying for a course.

The older I get, the more I realize you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.

My biggest takeaways from Stewart Butterfield: 1. Product design is about creating understanding, not removing friction. Teams obsess over reducing friction and removing steps, but 70% to 80% of product design challenges are actually about helping people *understand* what your product does

Marketing is the new bottleneck.

Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

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I have this unusual take on AI and the future of work: Knowing "what to do" is more important than knowing "how to do". AI is basically solving all the "how tos" But the "what to do" seems almost impossible for AI, because in most cases it's something that has never been done

A mentor once told me: “When you don’t know what to do next, clean your desk, make a list, and start with the smallest thing that matters." Every major project begins with a single act. Big tasks paralyze you because your brain sees the mountain, not the path. Build stairs.

here's my explanation for why people use Claude Code instead of Cursor

4 H’s to hiring - heard from a Partner at Menlo Ventures: Horsepower Hunger Hustle Humility

Every company should hire an internal AI transformation person. No need for a fancy title like Head of AI. Just give them full latitude to clean up inefficiencies across sales, hr, finance, etc. There's so many manual workflows and arcane bs that can easily be fixed with LLMs

At some point you will get an urge to vibe code an app. It’s very important that you listen to that urge and just get started.

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People generally don't go after their most ambitious ideas. But that's what creates the most value. Plus there's fewer people who play in that space. Go for the hard thing.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says AI is ushering in a "job singularity" – a Cambrian explosion of new job families across every imaginable field. “There's going to be a flurry of new entrepreneurial activity with micro corporations, solo institutions, and single-person unicorns.”

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." — Patrick Collison, founder of Stripe

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Enterprise LLM Market Share #1 Anthropic - 40% #2 OpenAI - 27% #3 Google - 21%

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, has a deceptively simple mantra for navigating the chaos before product-market fit: "Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff." He recalls a Paul Graham line that shaped his early founder days: "Startups are like sharks. If they stop

Let's zoom out and think of everything AI has unlocked in the last 10 years. — We can now generate and edit Hollywood-grade video [Seedance 2], speech [ElevenLabs], music [Suno] and image [Nanobanana, Midjourney] — We have access to infinite senior software engineering code [5.3