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Thinking Out Loud
Opinions on mindset, growth, and AI. Essays, not tactics — the tactical stuff lives on productgrowth.blog.
You Didn't Skip the Hard Part. You Rescheduled It.
When the urgent task is hard, we swap it for something easy that feels productive. The hard part comes back later, bigger, with interest.
procrastinationavoidancecareersmindsetpsychology7 minYour CEO's Old Job Is Your New Problem
Before you take the job, find out what your CEO used to be. An engineer-CEO and a marketing-CEO break their teams in opposite, predictable ways.
careersstartupsleadershipfoundershiring7 minYour Skills Have a Half-Life. Your Grit Doesn't.
Skills depreciate. Degrees expire. The willingness to grind when it sucks is the only thing that compounds.
mindsetaigritstartups7 minI Lied at My First Job Interview
The uncomfortable truth about career growth: big brands won't make you better. Freedom to experiment will.
careergrowthstartupsexperimentation4 minThe Upside of Naivete
George Dantzig solved "unsolvable" problems because he thought they were homework. The same principle builds empires.
growthstartupsmindsethiring6 minAlgorithm of Elon Musk's Billion Dollar Success and how you should use it.
Elon's success isn't recklessness, it's a method. Breaking down 'the algorithm' he uses at Tesla and SpaceX, and how you can apply it.
startupsleadershipfirst-principlesproductivity13 minData-Driven + Intuition-Driven: Making the Best Business Decisions
Why the best business decisions start with data and end with intuition — and how to blend the two.
decision-makingdataintuitionbusiness3 minSteve Jobs on Marketing
In the words of the genius himself: the speech Steve Jobs gave before announcing the Think Different campaign.
marketingbrandingapple3 min