Compounding isn’t just for capital. It’s for reputation, relationships, and craft. Play long games.

There are two major ways people interact with others: 1. Relational -- you are focused on how the interaction strengthens the relationship 2. Transactional -- you are focused on what you will get out of the interaction #1 thinks #2 is: abrasive, cold, self-centered, mercurial,

1/ One of the most valuable things you can do for your career – whether you are an investor or a founder – is to see what “great” actually looks like.

In our Series C round at Linear, we gave all current and former teammates the opportunity to sell a portion of their vested options. From the start, we’ve aimed to make Linear’s equity program as employee-friendly as possible. Now including path to liquidity.

Josh Waitzkin cautions against the “simmering six.” Elite physical performers oscillate between extreme intensity (9-10/10) and calm rest (1/10) Josh suggests that mental performers tend toward an anxious middle ground of consistent effort (6/10) that limits their ability to

Founder writing vs. committee writing

The biggest drain on your team isn't the impossible challenges. It's the people who turn simple tasks into complex ones. Keep the simplifiers. Avoid the complicators. It's not easy to spot, often the complicators are seen as having a great attention to detail & high care. But

I ran into an investor friend who was summering in California. He ordered a glass of Santa Barbara pinot and told me: “I didn’t drink for a year. Then on New Year’s I woke up and realized how boring my life had become. So I had a few drinks that day, and suddenly life had color

How to spot high agency people: Quit something of prestige.

$HOOD BREAKING: Robinhood announces that they have filed with the SEC to launch Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI), a concentrated portfolio of innovative private companies leading their industries. Well folks, looks like Robinhood is going to IPO a fund that allows retail to

a lot of ppl forget that the underrated pitch for joining a startup is also the daily toolkit flex in addition to the equity upside. i mean you get to ditch the bloated enterprise garbage & live in linear, claude code, cursor, notion, etc. working in a startup is basically a

Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props. What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your

A cruel reminder for most designers because it is the simple reality. You serve the brief, nothing more. You're hired as a tool to solve a business problem. But some designers are able to transcend this. They solve problems while also expressing an original worldview with

big companies only really execute well when there’s someone worth copying. they need a target. a template. a rival to imitate. google got its act together only once openai gave it a north star. same playbook with android vs iphone… apple led, google followed. facebook did it

YC Partner Kevin Hale: Marketing is a tax you pay for not making your product remarkable YC Partner and former Wufoo founder (acquired by SurveyMonkey) Kevin Hale is asked how founders should balance working on product with other company priorities like marketing. He gives the

If I was Apple, this is what I would go all in on- Audio as the natural interface for AI, especially with airpods as the hardware form factor for two reasons: 1) The amount of people with airpods in all day (already) makes it the easiest surface to launch to. You don't need to

Storytellers peddle hope-ium. And as we all know, hope is often not a strategy.

knowing how something was made greatly appreciates the value for it. in an era where so much can be generated, i suspect we’ll get more glimpses into the craft behind seemingly innocuous moments.

When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting Such a great design detail 💡