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For even the very wise cannot see all ends. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Whenever people talk about advice, they either lament that there is too much survivorship bias (
Read the essay →Every week, I see more people talking about burning out. It seems to be hitting anyone: from seasoned entrepreneurs with glowing track records to people scrapping their side projects because they can’t even handle their day job anymore: peo
Read the essay →If Facebook can survive a 6-hour outage, so can you. Let’s talk about unexpected downtime, which is often a direct consequence of dependency risk. Even Facebook experiences platform dependency risk. In fact, their attempt to avoid platform
Read the essay →Almost every product that ranks #1 on ProductHunt eventually gets copied. Someone sees an interesting product getting traction and decides to build the same thing. They check out the product’s landing page, copy that verbatim, and sign up f
Read the essay →I’ve seen people make the following observation more and more: “you shouldn’t build an audience; you should build a community!” Now, there is a lot of truth to that statement. It appears, on the surface, to redirect self-interest towards so
Read the essay →Pivoting a business is scary. Changing what you offer is like switching lanes on a busy motorway: there are many things to consider, and steering anywhere too quickly can create accidents. You need to understand where you come from and wher
Read the essay →I recently heard a saying: “leaders read, and readers lead.” It made me reflect on my reading choices over the last few years and what I have discovered from switching things up a little. A few years ago, you would have been unable to find
Read the essay →Two years ago, around this time, Danielle and I had just sold my SaaS FeedbackPanda. But we didn’t just sell a business: I quickly learned that I had sold my source of passion and motivation as well. Someone else got to do what I had enjoye
Read the essay →Ever since Danielle and I moved to Canada, I’ve been having a few new adventures. Getting to mow the lawn in our backyard was one of them. For a city boy like me, this was a novel and exciting activity, and it definitely impacted me. Daniel
Read the essay →I did an Ask-me-Anything on ProductHunt this week, and one question stood out to me. Jon Jackson asked me about the kind of life I led while running the business, how stressful it was, and what that looked like. Doing AmAs gives me a lot of
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