One possible solution to having less time to work after having kids: work on harder things. The hardest kinds of work can't be done for more than 4 or 5 hours a day anyway.

The best new ideas always have unanticipated benefits. So it's stupid to require people who want to do new things to enumerate the benefits beforehand. The best you can do is choose smart people and then trust their intuitions about what's worth exploring.

Why do most teams that understand their customers still fail at creating winning products? They fail to translate that understanding into the right product. Why? Chiefly, because they make a long series of average choices. They choose between 2 or 3 obvious options but remain

A good heuristic for founders - if it wasn’t your product, would you still use it?

This is a video of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, which shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other's range [📹 Voyageurs Wolf Project]

"The modern devil is cheap dopamine." Naval

Repeat this to yourself this week: • Narrow the focus • Up the quality • Increase the speed

Brutal capitalism in action.

Stumbled upon this music theory course and it has to be one of the most effective landing pages I’ve ever seen: lightnote.co

Y Combinator on how to focus on the right problems:

Sam Altman's powerful life advice:

The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.

The classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.

How much product managers make in salary, equity, and total comp in the U.S., Europe, and Canada: 1. The median starting total comp for a PM in the U.S. is $139,000. 2. A 90th-percentile senior individual-contributor (IC) PM can hit $350,000 in base salary and close to

Wow — art piece with Grok 3 and Replit on the iPhone.

The best way to win is not to start by developing a strong product but to discover a strong market need. If there's strong market need, but you have a weak product, you can iterate and make the product better over time. You can control your product iteration. You can't

A gum launching robot [📹 HTXStudio]

One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known. A thread of some examples: Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:

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Something I taught 14 yo: Most progress is a mix of steps forward and steps back, just with with more of the former. But you can get a run of steps back. So to judge progress accurately you need to use a big enough window, or it could look like you're failing.