Trapped value is teams not communicating high fidelity enough. Proof? Despite you responding to your team messages and threads across GitHub, Notion, Linear, the next time you meet on a Zoom, you seem to have endless things to catch up on and you guys inevitably repeat and

@asmartbear The agency is priceless. Work on what you want. Work with who you want. Work from where you want.

Sounds naive, but I remember pitching something and getting 10% of folks excited about it. I took the signal from 90% and stopped. Fatal mistake because in business you only need 1% to get excited, but I didn't know that I should measure and what to measure, what questions to

It's also easier if you follow a playbook, because then you can nail 80% of things without having to think. Without having to to fall into potholes and dig yourself yout.

Now I understand why having co-founders helps. You need so many skills for pulling off anything. In the past year, I put uncomfortable amounts of time into blindspots / discovering unknown unknowns. Simple, not easy.

Sounds naive, but indexing heavily on friends for market validation of a niche product was a fatal mistake I used to make. Note to self, don't do it.

Shoutout to @livekit. Been following them ever since COVID, and they have continued to build foundational technologies for media applications. In silence.

I’d imagine that rules around remote collaboration changes as the market changes. In other words, when employers have more leverage, they can demand more responsiveness in Slack.

Who has ever kept a project management system as tidy as the demo video shows you? I find that it doesn't morph at the speed of thought, so they inevitably become stale and a mess.

Noticed that if a luxury gym has wet wipe stations, many people will wipe every little spot they used. But it’s more of a status gesture to fit in. And then everyone does it. But no one wipes the door handles they used. Maybe they would if you put a wet wipe next to each door?

The best entrepreneurs were either: - Gamers. - Hustlers. Our entire childhood and it’s no debate.

People talk a lot about how they use AI to help them work, and some of it has the same flavour as “I spend all my time building a blog engine for my website and never get around to writing any blog posts”.

ARC Raiders is pure cinema 🥰

As a thought experiment, what if we completely rid ourselves of tools that force pro-actively using that tool. So that we can stop becoming a chronic Notion optimizer, instead of getting things done. Free ourselves from the illusion of progress.

Half your day goes to adding items, modifying, etc. You are now a project manager, not a scientist, artist, etc.

In lamen terms, I'm speaking of the dilemma you have run into: you use a task management system (personal or team), you accrue too many references across tools, your mind cannot hold all pieces of information and you feel paralyzed. Cal Newport speaks about his solution being

The simplest system would perhaps reference what's top-of-mind. But the limitation is that a busy, messy mind would end up polluting the tool/reference/system.

Now, there is something to be said about updating different systems of reference so that it pins the most important thoughts, but I find that this constant supervision and maintanence burden slows us down.

The deeper issue is that if the conversations that you are having with your team is constantly evolving, then your "systems" and tools will always be behind "reality".

The issue with knowledge management, project management, and chat tools is that they don't reflect reality. There is something to the idea that the conversations that we have in the current moment more accurately reflect "true reality". What's top of mind.