Author: cheerful.egg

I got rejected 5 times when I was in college.  No, I’m not talking about my dating life (although I got rejected many times in that too), but my attempts to join Strictly Funk, a college dance group I loved. Every semester, I auditioned, dan…

Paul Graham recently wrote a blogpost that’s been making the rounds on LinkedIn. In it, he argues that founders should get deeply involved in the minutiae of running their businesses (what he calls “Founder Mode”), rather than relying…

Have you heard of NotebookLM? It’s an AI-powered tool from Google that lets you upload a bunch of documents into a virtual notebook, and ask it questions. I use it a lot in my work. It’s super helpful for integrating information across mult…

Longtime readers of this blog will know that I believe passive investing works better than active investing. Active investors spend too much effort researching their investments and picking stocks. But the vast majority of them fail to beat a simple pa…

Quick note: I’m testing different topics to write about. This week, I’m trying a Marketing-related post to see how much you’ll enjoy reading articles like these. Let me know in the comments or by dropping me an email When I first star…