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Poker of Boxes

I asked a young man in his early 20’s why he voted for Trump.

This is his answer.

“I’m 23.

I’m straight.

I’m in college.

And I voted for Trump.

The book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck destroyed my idea of happiness.

It tells simple truths we forget in everyday life.

Five lessons from the book:

  1. Take responsibility

    You’ll never run out of problems.

    True happiness comes when you find the problems you enjoy solving.

  2. You’re always wrong

    Mark Manson’s law of avoidance:

    “The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”

    Have the balls to challenge your beliefs.

  3. Reverse-engineer execution

    Action comes before motivation.

    D…

I had a 21-year-old lecture me on work/life balance.

Alex came to do an internship in Germany.

  • We paid for his flight.

  • We paid for his hotel.

  • We pay him daily allowance.

I asked him to stay an extra hour to complete his code.

I’ll play -

I was 21 when I met my wife.

22 when I proposed.

I was 23 when we had our perfect summer wedding & honeymoon; in the woods, in a tent, next to a lake.

At 24, we each landed jobs, and had our first son.

At 25 we bought our first (and only) house.

Method I was taught at BCG for breaking down a hard problem: 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹 > 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁 > 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹.

1. Start with customer calls while you’re still generating hypotheses to make sure you're smoking out all of the possible issues.

2. Use data to size and validate the things you’re hearing.

3. Return to customers at the end to make sure what you…

How to be Strategic

Just in case anyone is under the wrong impression, my newsletter is not a Democracy. It is my universe, which I founded, where I am God. And I will smite your comment if you annoy me.

Perplexity’s API only has one endpoint but despite that, if you familiarize yourself with it, you can craft some pretty useful workflows.

In this week’s Knowledge Series, I take a look at how product teams can take their Perplexity skills to the next level and build an automated competitor analysis email that keeps you in the loop with ne…

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The five different portfolio career profiles (my working thesis):

  1. The True Specialist: someone who operates in a niche, offering a specific skillset to a specific industry, in a way that drives a specific outcome. They have similar clients and work on similar types of projects.

  2. The General Specialist: someone who operates in a less nichey …

The five types of portfolio career-ists

My playbook for micro SaaS startups to get to $10k/mo in 3 months:

(I've done this 20+ times)

1. Identify a popular SaaS.

2. Identify one sub-audience you understand who uses it.

6 most powerful paradoxes of life: