This is a collection of some of the essays I've written over the past six years.
Some are longer, while others are shorter.
These essays should give you a general idea about what it's all about around here.
But even more importantly, they should help you to see things from a different perspective...
On Getting started
- The first step
- From stuck to unstuck
- How to figure yourself out
- What’s holding you back?
- Overcoming procrastination
- What you really need to get started
- Stop bullshitting yourself
- You don’t need
- Let’s get uncomfortable again
- The importance of doing
- You can do whatever you want to
- All chips all in..
- Decision capital
- It all adds up
- Creating your own freedom
On Ideas
On Mindset
- It’s ok
- Not everything
- It’s not enough
- The only investor
- Your real competition
- No one will
- Not everyone
- We all want..
- Everything sucks
- The grandpa test
- Learning to enjoy learning
- A bigger pie
On Standing Out
- How to become the best at anything
- Ten questions to ask yourself today
- On mastery
- There’s more than this
- How to be three steps ahead of everybody else
- Don’t forget that
- Why it’s so hard
- Perfection vs consistency
- How to REALLY stand out
- The currency of the 21st century
- Changing the game
- Don’t stop when it gets difficult
- Don’t be an expert
On Growth
- One person a day
- Be your worst..
- Do more bad work
- The real bottleneck
- It’s a lot easier
- Spread it
- Don’t get fat
- The end of consumers?
- It still works
- On accelerating
- Forget about users
- It grows organically
- On growth hacking
On Success
- It’s never about luck
- Just once or twice
- If it’s easy
- Just keep going
- The Rule of 97%
- Small wins
- It’s a numbers game
- The secret sauce
On Failure
- How to get back up again
- Reinventing yourself
- How to stop feeling like a failure
- How to be rich (even when you’re a failure)
- Getting back up again
- What to do when you don’t know what to do
- Our strengths grow out of our weaknesses
On Innovation
- It’s about go-to-market innovation
- Innovation, money and laziness
- Why you’ll never build the next Facebook
- 10 things that kill your creativity
- The ultimate guide to building any product
- What’s your side product?
- Monetize your shitty customers
- Our need for information kills innovation
On Writing
- Why no one reads your stuff
- The Ultimate Cheatsheet for becoming a super blogger
- The ROI of Blogging (or why I blog)
- 10 or 11 unusual things I learned writing every day
- Why you shouldn’t blog on Medium
- 100 things I learned after 100+ blog posts
- Blogging is dead (and what still works)
On Being an Entrepreneur
- The 25 Rules for being an Entrepreneur
- Filling the blanks
- Why you should not quit your job
- 10 things The Lean Startup didn’t tell you
- The digital nomad lie
- From Employee to Entrepreneur in 10 steps
- Why Corporations will never innovate like Startups
- How to be the world’s best public speaker
- Why we hate our jobs