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From the outside looking in at the mentors and figures I look up to, I've come to terms with the lack of "excitement," "fun," and "exciting" events.
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Are you one drop of water away from your ultimate self?
What pace is required to break through barriers and become who I need to be?
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Learning to Fly: Bruce Carr's Guide to Impossible Survival
This is a story about learning to fly before you think you're ready.
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Lessons from Ronnie Fieg: Understanding Resonance, Creation, and Scale
Ronnie Fieg built Kith from a single NYC sneaker store into a global cultural powerhouse. His journey offers profound insights on product, creativity…
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III – Solving for The Village
Here's my three-part exploration of how we can build for the next frontier:
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October 2024

Tame your 'founder-superiority-complex' and become a business Jedi
Build a solid vision, create a team of experts, build awesome systems, iterate, and then... get out of the way.
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Building systems and states like Balaji
The key is to create frameworks that are both comprehensive enough to guide others and flexible enough to evolve.
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A lifetime love of building business
That's what I find cool and worthwhile.
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Do you have a plan to escape competition?
Failing to find one power law channel of distribution will break your company
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Escaping Competition Through Contrarianism
"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself." - Peter Thiel
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September 2024

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