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Back to SearchWhy I Said No to Venture Capital for Trends.vc | Daily Essay
Episode 173
On the show Creator Lab, Bilal Zaidi asked me whether I would take investors for Trends.vc. I said no.
Featuring: Bilal Zaidi, Phillip Knowlton, Crai…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
I Got Everything I Wanted at 23 and Stopped Growing | Daily Essay
Episode 172
I got the thing I'd wanted my whole life and then I stopped growing. Doing hard things when your back is against the wall is survival; courage is doi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The 1 Area I Ignored Across 20 Businesses | Daily Essay
Episode 171
I tried more than 20 businesses before one of them worked. One or two made a little money, but none of them got big despite working hard on each one.…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Plenty of Fish Sold for $575M. He Had 3 Employees.
Episode 170
Markus Frind built the largest dating site in the world by himself, ran it on about an hour a day and sold it for $575 million to a single shareholde…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Estimation Trick I Use to Start Moving | Daily Essay
Episode 169
Each day I ask one question: what's the one thing I can do that makes everything else easier or unnecessary? Putting a time estimate beside the answe…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The $1,000 Rule Behind My Trends.vc Reports | Daily Essay
Episode 168
When I wrote my first Trends.vc reports, I focused on density. Each good piece of content either makes you afraid to stop consuming or unable to stop…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Pattern Behind Every System Collapse | Daily Essay
Episode 167
Habit systems, airline networks and 17th-century warships all fail the same way: not from a catastrophic shock, but under the weight of too many reas…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
I Chose to Be Worst at Replying | Daily Essay
Episode 166
Send me an email on Tuesday and you hear back the following Monday. That lag buys six days of unbroken focus, the same way Costco's 14% markup cap an…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How I Stop Procrastinating | The Single Page Method | Daily Essay
Episode 165
Avoiding the work does not mean you are lazy. It means the step in front of you is too steep.
Featuring: John Steinbeck
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Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy | Daily Essay
Episode 164
Erik Seidel folds king-nine because a weak side card leaves you drawing to second-best. Warren Buffett skipped that fold in 1962, spent 20 years buyi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago