Always solve tasks just a little too hard for the model — keeping a human in the loop is what builds the data flywheel.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
A complete system for winning complex B2B sales through process, not persuasion
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Smart people thinking you're crazy is the moat signal, not a red flag
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder: It's Time To Quit Your Job When You Feel This! · Reid Hoffman
Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Validate your business idea with real paying customers in 48 hours, not months of planning
Noah Kagan Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast) · Noah Kagan
Use scorecard data to treat every customer as an individual
Scorecard Marketing · Daniel Priestley
Discover what customers want through their behavior not their words
How to Start a Startup · Paul Graham
Improve, don't push
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur · Derek Sivers
Define the minimum product customers will pay for, validate it with real-world data, then map a versioned expansion strategy from beachhead dominance to adjacent markets.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
Design your business model around market size, distribution, high gross margins, and network effects.
Blitzscaling · Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
A cascading rhythm of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings that serves as the heartbeat of the organization.
Scaling Up · Verne Harnish
Ten execution habits that dramatically increase profitability and reduce the time it takes to manage the business.
Scaling Up · Verne Harnish
Systematically turn customer complaints and process jams into profit gains
Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises · Susanne Mariga
Your biggest growth opportunity is the people who refuse to buy from you
Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Virtuous Pricing Cycle
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No · Alex Hormozi
Transform rejection and criticism into your most valuable innovation signal
Loonshots · Safi Bahcall
Regulate LH for hormone balance
How to Optimize Testosterone & Estrogen | Huberman Lab Essentials · Andrew Huberman
If your business plan is longer than a page, it is probably too long
The $100 Startup · Chris Guillebeau
Narrow your customer segment until you know exactly where to find them
The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
Convert vague generics and hypotheticals into concrete past behavior
The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
Treat compliments as noise and redirect conversations toward concrete facts
The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
Test product changes with controlled experiments to know what actually works
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries
Work in the smallest possible increments to find problems faster and waste less
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries
Build the smallest thing that lets you start learning from real customers
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries
Turn ideas into products, measure customer response, and learn whether to pivot or persevere
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries
Watch what customers do, not what they say, and let them hijack your roadmap
Masters of Scale · Reid Hoffman
Hand-serve your first users obsessively to discover what millions will love
Masters of Scale · Reid Hoffman
Split time equally between building product and pursuing traction from day one
Traction · Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares