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7 things to post about to stay relevant as a founder online
You already know the pressure. Every founder today is expected to build a company and a personal brand at the same time. Investors check your LinkedIn before they reply....
6 strategies to create value online without adding to the noise
Most founders know the feeling. You open LinkedIn for five minutes and suddenly you’re staring at another thread about “10x growth hacks,” another AI-generated carousel, or another founder pretending...
4 keys to handling the guilt of slowing down
There’s a strange kind of guilt that shows up once you become serious about building something. You finally get a quiet weekend, a lighter calendar, or a rare moment...
Looking Back at Lewis and Clark
History is usually written in the third person, even though it has to be lived in the first, and Fehrman takes advantage of the rich and deep documentation of...
How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
That picture, “Burial of an Unknown Child,” became the defining image of the disaster, a depiction of tragedy so viscerally infused with loss that, even today, it appears on...
What Jack Kerouac Left Behind
Six months later, in February, 1943, most of the men Jack sailed with that summer—including Glory and the pastry chef—were killed when the Dorchester was torpedoed by a German...
5 weekend habits that separate high-output founders from burned-out ones
By Friday night, most founders are carrying around a week’s worth of unresolved decisions. Customer fires, investor updates, hiring stress, product bugs, cash flow anxiety. The problem is not...
How Good Is the U.S. Men’s World Cup Team, Really?
Pochettino’s approach seems to involve preaching optimism and a “why-not-us?” ethos, channelling a dash of “Ted Lasso” into his sunny messaging. He insists that the key ingredient for World...
“I Love Boosters,” Reviewed: A Socialist-Surrealist Shoplifting Fantasy
As an aspiring designer herself, Corvette has a complex relationship with Christie: infuriated though she may be by Christie’s racist and classist condescension, Corvette also considers her a creative...
Stop Funding Problems Start Fueling Proven Strengths
I’ve built and sold companies, scaled brands fast, and learned a hard lesson: throwing money at problems doesn’t fix them. It just hides them until the cash runs dry....
If You’re Ready for a Career Reinvention, Here are Some High Growth Fields
The world is changing and with it, careers that were once rock solid are being reimagined and in some cases are falling by the wayside. This has left many...
The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello”
Like the recent Broadway play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” “Well, I’ll Let You Go” is a portrait of people living in isolation, their walls up—a situation ripe for an...