Reality has a surprising amount of detail

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...

How To Be Successful

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

Randy Hunt, Etsy Last Lecture

I like James Carse’s distinction between finite and infinite games. A finite game, like chess, is one that you play for awhile and when somebody wins, you stop. An infinite game, like life, is one where the goal is to be able to keep playing. To win at life means to keep living. Most pursuits […]

Success is Stamina: To Win Means to Keep Playing

The Burnout List

A forty year career

The four kinds of luck

Is It Worth the Time?

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity

Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea

Write Like You Talk

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Software Disenchantment

Good challenges vs. bad challenges

﻿I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on.  I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...

The days are long but the decades are short

Pure UI

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