Writing on company building, product engineering, and leadership.

All of my long-form thoughts on startups, leadership, product engineering, and more, collected in chronological order.

Startup First Principles

The best founders know when to use a framework and when to break the rules because they intuitively think using first principles.

Saying no is table stakes

In the startup world, opportunity cost is everything. For every single thing we decide to focus on, we are consciously (or unconsciously) saying no to 10,000 other things.