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29 pieces, distilled from a working vault. Filter by movement or by the subject they were filed under.

—FiltersMovement is the editorial cut. Subject is how the piece was filed in the vault.
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29 pieces

  1. Account-Based Marketing & B2B Demand Generation: A Field GuideMost of what I've learned about B2B marketing can be compressed into a single uncomfortable truth: **you are not marketing to a company, and you are not…Marketing7 min
  2. Building a Content Engine: Ideas, Retention, Consistency & CommunityGrowing an audience looks like creativity from the outside and turns out to be a *system* on the inside. The creators who build real communities aren't more…Communities2 min
  3. Building a Demand Engine: Positioning, Audience Research & ReferralsA "marketing plan" used to feel like a deliverable to me — a document you make so it exists. It isn't. It's an engine: a few connected parts that, when tuned,…Marketing3 min
  4. Building Software & Apps: From Engineering Principles to Flutter & No-CodeI've built software by writing every line, by composing pre-made components, and by not writing code at all. They look different but they rest on the same…Code3 min
  5. Content, Storytelling & Organic Growth: What Actually Holds AttentionI've made content that died in silence and content that compounded for months. The difference was almost never production quality. It was whether I understood…Marketing5 min
  6. Data Systems Foundations: Databases & AlgorithmsYou can go a surprisingly long way in data work without understanding what's underneath — until the day you can't. Two foundations repay the effort more than…Data Science4 min
  7. Design Principles: Minimalism, UI Fundamentals & the Developer HandoffDesign looks like taste from the outside and turns out to be mostly *process* on the inside. The best designers I've learned from don't have better instincts…Design3 min
  8. Forming an Operations Team That ScalesOperations is where good intentions go to die at scale. A team that runs beautifully at ten people can quietly fall apart at fifty — not because anyone got…Leadership2 min
  9. From Markets to a Real Operating Plan: Economics & Financial ModelingEconomics gets taught as theory and used as intuition. The two ends of it that matter most to me are the most micro (how prices and quantities actually move in…Economics4 min
  10. Lessons on Strategy, Self-Knowledge & Connection (via a Board Game)Some of the most useful frameworks for living don't come from self-help books. They come from a board game, from noticing how you actually learn, and from a…Life4 min
  11. Machine Learning Foundations: The Mental Models That Make It ClickMachine learning stops being intimidating the moment you realise it's a small set of ideas wearing a lot of math. These are the mental models that made it…Machine Learning5 min
  12. Natural Language Processing FoundationsNatural Language Processing is how machines make sense of human language — and underneath the modern magic of large language models sits a foundation of older,…Natural language Processing3 min
  13. Negotiating Contracts as a Solo FounderOver one week I went from receiving a corporate work agreement with an uncapped liability clause to a signed contract with a cap I could live with. Along the…Entrepreneurship6 min
  14. Performance Marketing on Paid Social: Brand, Algorithm & the Core-4Paid advertising is where I learned that "spending money to get attention" and "buying profitable growth" are completely different skills. Anyone can do the…Marketing5 min
  15. Pitching, Persuasion & Handling the NoThe fastest way to ruin a pitch is to make it about you. Almost everything I've learned about selling comes back to a single inversion: **the customer is the…Sales6 min
  16. Prompt Engineering: Getting Real Output From AIMost people treat AI like a search engine and then wonder why the results are mediocre. The reframe that changed everything for me: **prompts are instructions,…Artificial Intelligence3 min
  17. Prospecting: How to Keep a Pipeline That Never Runs DryProspecting is the part of sales everyone wants to avoid and nobody can escape. It's supposed to be hard — if you had a choice between prospecting and swimming…Sales6 min
  18. Putting AI to Work: Automating the Repetitive Parts of Knowledge WorkThe most valuable thing reasoning AI does isn't writing essays — it's quietly eating the repetitive research-and-synthesis work that fills people's days. I…Artificial Intelligence3 min
  19. Python Fundamentals: The Parts That Matter EarlyPython was the first language that didn't feel like fighting the computer — and that's by design. If you're starting out, a handful of fundamentals carry…Python3 min
  20. Running a Lean Team: Delegation, Incentives & Staying Close to the WorkBuilding a company young teaches you things in the wrong order. You learn the lesson, then you understand why it mattered, usually after it's already cost you.…Entrepreneurship3 min
  21. Self-Mastery: How to Study, Master the Mind & See ClearlySelf-mastery sounds grand, but in practice it's three smaller skills: learning efficiently, understanding what shapes your state of mind, and being able to see…Self help4 min
  22. The Craft of Cold Email & Outbound: How to Start Conversations With StrangersI've sent a lot of cold email — enough to watch it fail in ways no dashboard could explain, and enough to learn what actually makes a stranger reply. The…Sales5 min
  23. The Data Science Workflow: From Messy Data to DecisionsThe glamorous part of data science is the model. The *real* job is everything before it. The unglamorous truth I keep relearning: **most of the work — and most…Data Science3 min
  24. The Formula for Irresistible Video HooksIn video, the hook isn't part of the work — it *is* the work. You have about four seconds in short-form, a minute or two in long-form, and if you lose people…Video Production3 min
  25. The Freelancer's Playbook: Skills, Pricing & ContractsI went from earning very little as a teenager to a real income in a few years by freelancing — and the lessons that got me there are unglamorous and…Entrepreneurship3 min
  26. The Repo-as-Bridge Second BrainFor years my best thinking lived in a notes tool my AI couldn't see. Every session started with a paste-a-wall-of-context ritual, and the quality of the output…Tech3 min
  27. Validating a Startup: The Lean Canvas & the Truth About Venture CapitalMost startup ideas die not because they were bad, but because nobody pressure-tested them on one page before pouring years into them. Two things have saved me…Entrepreneurship3 min
  28. Web Design vs Web Development: The Front-End / Back-End Map"Web design" and "web development" get used interchangeably, and that confusion quietly causes a lot of mis-hires and mis-scoped projects. They're related,…Tech2 min
  29. How Networks Actually Work: A Practical Map of Computer NetworkingNetworking felt like alphabet soup to me until I had a map — a way to see how the pieces stack. Once the layers clicked, everything from "why is this slow" to…Computer Networks4 min