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Those Great New Calendar Tools Probably Won't Help You original ↗

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Do I Hate Investors?original ↗

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My Monopolies original ↗

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Designing Tomorrow’s Privacy original ↗

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Don’t Make Board Decks original ↗

22 Jul 2020

Entrepreneur, Stage 1: Bootstrapping, Burnout, and Babies original ↗

7 Jul 2020

The First Two-Million-Dollar Check original ↗

30 Jun 2020

How TechCrunch is like the Iliad original ↗

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P-Hacking in Startups original ↗

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The Automator's Dilemma original ↗

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Series: Blockchain Without Blockchain original ↗

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My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales original ↗

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A Writing Report: Two Years In original ↗

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The Rights You Lost When the Document Died original ↗

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Follow your weird original ↗

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Review of the 2018 iPad Pro original ↗

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We Were Promised Flying Cars and Five Hour Work Weeks original ↗

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Great advisors reveal your truth, not theirs original ↗

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Hold on to your why original ↗

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Owning My Strava Ride original ↗

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How to Neg a Founder original ↗

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An alternative crypto-history original ↗

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The virtue of a tool original ↗

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Several short sentences original ↗

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Decentralize Your Data original ↗

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Trusting more with the blockchain original ↗

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Blockchain without Blockchain original ↗

9 May 2018

The power of better tools original ↗

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The Market Is Wrong About Your Problems original ↗

17 Apr 2018

Owning my writing original ↗

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Why We Hate Working for Big Companies original ↗

10 Apr 2018

Abandoning Trello original ↗

6 Apr 2018

Great design is ruining software original ↗

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Putting OKRs Into Practice original ↗

20 Mar 2018

Where does your work live?original ↗

13 Mar 2018

Founding Myths are Pernicious Propaganda original ↗

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Apple Has a Focus Problem original ↗

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My Computers Are All Broken original ↗

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Software At the Coal Face original ↗

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Strategy Is Culture original ↗

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One Investor Isn’t Enough original ↗

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Unicorns Distract Us from a Graveyard original ↗

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Venture Capital Is Built on Serendipity original ↗

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Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption original ↗

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Why the Most Successful VC Firms Keep Winning original ↗

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The Tension at the Heart of a Freemium Business original ↗

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Should You Open Source Your Product? That’s the Wrong Question original ↗

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Moving Beyond Silicon Valley Software Companies original ↗

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Stopping the Software Factory original ↗

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Productivity Is Not About People original ↗

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Leadership Is Direction Plus Constraints original ↗

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The High Cost of Fitting In original ↗

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How Can I Help?original ↗

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It Shouldn’t Get Easier original ↗

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The Job of the Filesystem original ↗

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The Wrong Successes Kill Companies original ↗

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The Binary Future of Software Companies original ↗

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Start With the Dangerous Questions original ↗

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Your Whiteboard and Post-Its Aren’t Kanban original ↗

1 Mar 2017

I’m Often Asked original ↗

23 Feb 2017

Why That Startup Advice is Useless original ↗

16 Feb 2017

Developing My Future original ↗

1 Feb 2017

No, You Don’t Learn More from Failure original ↗

24 Jan 2017

2015

The case for the iPad’s long-term future original ↗

24 Jan 2015

Undated

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