Writing
I write The Ascending World, about building products and companies, and why I believe the world keeps getting better. A few hundred people read it.
SubscribeOn building products
What I’ve learned leading product at Docquity.
- Stay close to the work7 min
Notes from a flight to Tokyo on shipping cadence, roadmaps, managing teams and what AI changes.
- You can’t A/B test your way to PMF5 min
Why early products should stay closer to an art project than a commodity.
- What the product job actually is4 min
A year into the CPO role: what the job really is, and why it’s the second best seat in a company.
On founders
Why people start companies, and what wears them down.
- The founder arc and the morality of ambition4 min
Why some people may have a duty to pursue remarkable things.
- The real reason startups fail4 min
Startups rarely run out of money first. They die from a thousand tiny cuts.
On the world, and living in it
Why I’m an optimist, and what I’ve learned along the way.
- The ascending world8 min
Why I believe the world keeps getting better, and why this newsletter is named after it.
- The path to engineered luck11 min
My wife’s framework for spotting lucky people, and what it says about luck.
- 50 things I know9 min
Fifty lessons that hold true for me.