Essays
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- Efficiency Is An Excuse To Not Do The Actual Work
- Pain is the Point
- The path to success always requires a stop in hell
- How Could it Be Any Other Way?
- The Perfect Decision Fallacy
- Why is Everyone Like their Parents?
- How I lost 25 pounds lugging my Peloton across the country in the back of my car
- Optimism 2020: A Manifesto
- The Religion of Creation
- Review: The Founders
- 2020 Annual Review
- The Most Important Message of Your Life
- The Responsibility of Freedom
- An Interview with Shaan Puri, founder of All Access Pass
All Essays
- Efficiency Is An Excuse To Not Do The Actual Work
- Pain is the Point
- The path to success always requires a stop in hell
- How Could it Be Any Other Way?
- The Perfect Decision Fallacy
- Why is Everyone Like their Parents?
- How I lost 25 pounds lugging my Peloton across the country in the back of my car
- Optimism 2020: A Manifesto
- The Religion of Creation
- Review: The Founders
- 2020 Annual Review
- The Most Important Message of Your Life
- The Responsibility of Freedom
- An Interview with Shaan Puri, founder of All Access Pass
- I Made a Personal Flag for 2020
- Why You Should Ignore Every Founder's Story About How They Started Their Company
- Happiness is a Flow
- One Reason We're Afraid to Take Action
- The Slideshow of Your Life
- Finding Problems is Only 10% of the Value
- First World Failure
- Participating in the Infinite Game of Life
- Ode to Silicon Valley
- Apollo 11
- Production vs Consumption
- How to Not Suffocate and Drown in a Sea of Slack Channels and Notifications
- Work For Your Lunch
- What Do You Actually Want?
- Create Your Own Greatness
- Future You Masturbation
- How to Find Meaning and Purpose in Life
- Mistakes Are Good
- Commit to Yourself Over Time
- Why Don't We Do the Things We Say We Want to Do?
- Play Against Yourself: Jealousy is a Cancer
- You Don't Get More Points for Willpower
- Fun Friday: Questions for Conversations with Friends
- You're Probably Already Rich
- Before You Lose Weight You Gotta Know You're Fat
- That Time a Developer Stole My Idea and Made Millions
- What Makes You Feel the Most Alive?
- What Makes a Great Entrepreneur?
- The Next Thing
- The Danger of Outrage Narratives
- How to Know What's True
- You Aren't Special
- Obscure and Interesting Memos
- Anticipation is Half the Fun
- A List of Book Lists
- In Defense of Thinking Bigger
- How to Defeat the President, the Senate, and your Party Leaders
- Love of the Game
- The Search for Greatness
- How to critique a startup
- My 2020 Holiday Gifts to You
- You Are Meant to be Great
- Be Usefully Interesting
- How to Beat a Russian Oligarch
- What Stories Do You Tell Yourself That Aren't True?
- How Rich People Talk to Eachother
- Talk is Not Cheap
- What Do Your Work Values Say About You?
- Identity Change
- Become a Missile, Again
- Build 2021 - The Annual Theme & Manifesto
- The Fallacy of Inevitable Greatness
- Lived Experience
- Why I Carry Plastic Straws
- My Favorite Internet Videos of All Time
- Swings are Free
- A Masterclass on Building an Inspiring Narrative for your Company
- Why I Create Annual Themes
- New Years Resolutions Are Garbage (but you shouldn't listen to me)
- The Joy Of Fulfilling Promises to Yourself
- Change Who You Are