Philosophy, marketing, systems design, problem solving, and history — the ideas behind how I build and why it works.
You've built something real. Revenue is there. But growth has plateaued and you can't figure out why. The answer is almost always one of four systemic traps — and the fix isn't what you think.
Everyone talks about "first principles thinking" but most people use it as a buzzword. Here's what it actually means to strip a problem back to bedrock — and why it's uncomfortable.
You don't "run" attention. You build it. The companies that win the next decade will treat audience and distribution like compounding infrastructure, not a line item.
Most operators spread resources across twelve priorities. The highest-leverage move is almost always doing the opposite: find the one bottleneck and pour everything into removing it.
The industrial titans didn't just work harder. They built systems that made individual effort irrelevant. The lesson hasn't changed — only the tools have.
Most founders treat their tech stack like a shopping list. But every tool you add is a dependency, a data silo, and a compounding decision. Here's how to think about it architecturally.
New essays on philosophy, systems, and strategy dropping soon. In the meantime, the best way to get my thinking is a conversation.
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