I stopped trying to win arguments

When being right becomes an addiction

You can't learn to ship from a book

Most advice about execution treats it like a skill you can study

You're building a house of cards without realizing it

The difference between a job and a dependency

Why your best decisions still feel wrong

The thing nobody tells you about uncertainty

If you're 45 and thinking about starting something

By your 40s, you know people.

No amount of information resolves uncertainty

Nobody teaches you how to act while uncertain

The five questions for self-aware founders

And how they're answered differently

The thing you're afraid of becomes the thing you engineer.

Fear makes you optimize for the wrong metric.

You're in sales whether you want it or not

If you can't sell, you can't build anything that requires other humans.

Your perfectionism isn't helping you ship better work.

It's preventing you from doing the work at all.

How mismatched expectations disguise themselves

You don't manage people

Your first hire programs how everyone else will work

The three things your first hire actually does

What we get wrong about smart

Was he "smarter than me"? Wrong question.

When "never give up" becomes the problem

Operational work closes loops

The 70/30 test

Your smartest people are protecting their image

Nobody admits confusion

The ambitious goal changes what you build

How ceilings compound

Speed is how you get to quality

Why slow doesn't make it better

Learning faster than failing

Success is outrunning your own decay

The right kind of being wrong

Why some mistakes compound and others just cost

Find your amplifiers

On resonance and the people who make you exponential

The invisible operating system

Why teams need to see how you think, not just what you decide

The dual timeline

How founders live in the day and the decade simultaneously

Your learning velocity dictates your growth

The difference between accumulation and acceleration

When in doubt, just ship it

Uncertainty is the signal, not the problem