My shirt rubbed my nipple raw when I moved my run from 55 minutes to 89. Dehydration arrived at the same time. Featuring: Safi Bahcall, Emil Zátopek Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc:…
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, Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, Travis Kalanick, Fawzi…
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 doing them when nothing is making you. Featuring:…
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. Featuring: Thomas Reid Read the full post Brought…
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 shareholder. Then he bought more than 1,100 acres in the…
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 answer forces a mental simulation before you lift a…
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 consuming: the signal-to-noise contract or the…
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 reasonable additions. Featuring: Hyman Minsky,…
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 and Southwest's single aircraft type bought each…
Avoiding the work does not mean you are lazy. It means the step in front of you is too steep. Featuring: John Steinbeck Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new…
