The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to getting there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions: What 20% of sources are causing 80% of my

Shopify's product team has a neat framework for clarifying responsibilities on projects. It's called the AAA framework. Each team member is assigned one of three roles: 1. Aiming: responsible for strategy and direction of what we are building 2. Assembling: responsible for

Just before he stepped down as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote his final shareholder letter. He closed it out with a section he titled, “Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical.” He prefaced his own thoughts with a quote from The Blind Watchmaker,

-1 to 0 is the most important stage in the company-building process. But not enough people know what it is or why it matters. I thought it was about time to define it more clearly. So what is -1 to 0? And why should you take it seriously? 🧵

I’m told mine is a contrarian view on the events of the last few days, so here goes… Contrary to what Kevin Roose and others have written, Microsoft was not a winner of the events of the last few days around #OpenAI. They were in a much better place on Friday morning last week

Today is my last day at Google. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work here with some of the smartest people in the world. It’s been nothing short of incredible. But I’m excited for what’s next. Three years ago, the idea of living in New York City, and working for a

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People talk about first-principles thinking, but most people don't really know what it is or how to apply it. In this week's essay, I do my best to explain it, give you a practical set of steps for applying it in your work, and share a ton of examples of product leaders using

I love how Sam Altman thinks of career trajectory as you would compound interest it doesn’t apply to just investing, but everything you do in life the small gains compound to a completely different trajectory long term

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Olympic 100m race analysis. Noah Lyles was last at 30 meters and did not lead at any point until the final steps. But he was leading when it counted.

A short summary: axios.com/2024/06/23/leo… Leopold Aschenbrenner — formerly of OpenAI's Superalignment team, now founder of an investment firm focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI) — has posted a massive, provocative essay putting a long lens on AI's future. Why it

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon:

Meetings done for the week (year?), Torsten Slok (Apollo) and Henry McVey (KKR) 2025 outlooks fresh off the printer, and the kids still in school for another 2.5 hours. No better feeling. kkr.com/content/dam/kk… apollo.com/content/dam/ap…

I have a BA in English Literature, a minor in Computer Science, a JD, and an MBA. As CEO of Cloudflare, a fairly technical company, the most important has always been that English Literature degree. To be able to write and communicate effectively, easily, and quickly is the job.

Klarna was one of the first to go all-in on AI, replacing 700 customer service staff last year. Now CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says they focused too much on cost and hurt quality, so they’re investing in humans again and will let customers talk to real people.

cloudflare just broke the internet's business model. they launched "pay per crawl" websites can now charge ai crawlers for scraping content. instead of "block all bots" or "let them steal everything," there's option 3: "pay me." why this is a BIG DEAL: every SaaS has valuable