Push away the ‘all-in-one’ promise, because it’ll only cause you to be more distracted when you’re looking for focus. I’ve had this methodology for a while, this post’s purpose is a simple (and growing) list of tech-enabled and non-tech items that are single-purpose. What's the impetus? I just finished reading 4,000 Weeks by…

Why is crypto so hard and stupidly difficult to set up? I was reading an article by Packy McCormick (The Interface Phase), where he (seemed to have) first hand felt my frustration: …the web3 experience still remains complex and confusing to all but the most technical or committed. I was…

Humans are too focused on trying to build correlation and causation of things that have already happened. I was in Kosovo and was having an argument with a colleague, that the path that we are walking down right now — we feel is a straight line that is due to…

With the latest Mark Zuckerberg announcement of Facebook focusing on the metaverse (and potentially even changing their name to reflect as such), I’ve been seeing more folks shining a spotlight on the “metaverse”. So, what is the metaverse? Sapiens (we humans) are story telling creatures, and outside of all the…

How do you know what to build? Where to prioritize? What direction to steer the ship? Do people like what you’re building? Rahul Vohra from Superhuman and the PMF Survey Jarie Bolander (from the Entrepreneur’s Ethos) and I were scratching our collective head(s) as we started to build Sutro in its early days. We had just been acquired…

Trust is critical to leadership. Trust in the enterprise, trust in the people that work with you, and trust in yourself. Jarie Bolander from the Entrepreneurs Ethos (you should totally check it out and subscribe to his podcast), texted me this podcast from the Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish. The…

I have never seen the night sky (in its fullest) before. And when I did, it was eye-opening. My sister, Shrina Kurani and her husband Marius von Essen are big hiking folks. …

Tonight, I left my phone at home. I went to the pizza place (Hoza Pizzeria) at the corner of 15th and Franklin, in Oakland California, and ordered a vegan slice of pizza and a beer. I was anxious, and I realized that I grabbed for my pocket at least 7…

2x is different than x^2 Startups (and businesses) continually strive for hockey stick growth, but a word of caution - you need to really be ahead of the game to make sure you can manage the ‘exponential’. I know the title is a little misleading, the exponential doesn’t need to be x^2 it can be…