I just published E-commerce in Post-COVID Era

Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

The older I get, the more I realize you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.

Marketing is the new bottleneck.

My biggest takeaways from @stewart: 1. Product design is about creating understanding, not removing friction. Teams obsess over reducing friction and removing steps, but 70% to 80% of product design challenges are actually about helping people *understand* what your product does

Invest your time before you invest your money. Start running before you buy running shoes. Build something before you buy the domain. Learn via YouTube before paying for a course.

New collected podcast. Links below. In the Arena 0:00 Inspiration All the Way Down 2:40 Life is Lived in the Arena 4:51 If You Want to Learn, Do 6:14 In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 7:30 When You Truly Work for Yourself 10:11 Find Your Specific

Show us your craziest automation. The one that breaks the rules (and maybe a few APIs :P). Let’s see what the future of work really looks like. #wrrkAI #automation #buildinpublic Sign up for our early access here https://t.co/YPbgPXUSpL

Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor. I then ended up founding several companies, one of which ended up

Everyone needs to hear this…

I'm 24, dropped out of Duke, joined YC, and bet everything on a startup. Here's what actually happens when you go all-in: 1. Your co-founder relationship matters more than your product: You can pivot products. You can't pivot people. Most startups die from founder breakups, not

If you are pinging someone who’s busier than you, you should have a single well-thought-out specific ask. Only ask for something you truly cannot do on your own, and where you have done everything you possibly can by yourself. For example, if you’re asking someone to send an

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

vibe coding:

karpathy speaks like someone who’s running a mental compiler in real time with minimal interpretive latency & almost zero runtime garbage. he’s not verbose. he just threads complexity into compressed lossless statements. most smart people can be dense, but they lose clarity.

Latest OpenAI numbers from the FT: 800m users, 5% paying (40m). $13bn in ARR. Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user. 70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API. $8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.

My biggest takeaways from Head of Google search (and former head of product at Instagram) @rmstein: 1. The next year of AI products will establish user habits for many years. People are building their new habits right now, like how quickly everyone started relying on ChatGPT.

This is how Anthropic decides what to build next—and it's brilliant. Instead of endless spec documents and roadmap debates, the Claude Code team has cracked the code on feature prioritization: prototype first, decide later. Here's their process (shared by Catherine Wu, Product

Good product design reduces clicks. Great product design reduces thinking

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The best product builders are relentless product users. Taste comes from opening apps, stumbling through onboarding flows, hitting walls, and feeling the difference between smooth and clunky. Chefs don’t learn taste from recipes. They taste food until they can tell what’s