Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This company/team/self framework proved itself…

thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions

I recently asked on Twitter: If you've been in a company that "held itself to high standards"...what do you think was behind that ability to stick to those standards? What made that possible? One response from Mani Fazeli stood out: Founder CEOs with uncompromising…

For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has…

A few weeks ago I bought a piano. It’s a digital piano, which I’m quite excited about for a few reasons: I remain haunted by forgetting to water our piano as a child, it was a ninety pound package that I could install myself rather than a standard piano’s…

Virgil Abloh (Rockford, IL 1980) is an architect, engineer, creative director, and designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he completed a Master´s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of…

How to make better software with systems-thinking

With advancements in machine learning, screenshots are quickly becoming a universal data format. It's now (relatively) easy to extract meaning (image-to-text), layout information (object recognition), text (optical character recognition, OCR),  and other…

Over the last decade, I’ve interviewed and assessed more than 5,000 investment managers. One of the most important things I’ve learned in that process is what separates the great investors from the rest. The great ones view investing as a game, and they know…

ready player one. what did you get done this week?

It's the honest introspection part that everyone falls down on.

Because no one wants to admit they were wrong.

Especially to themselves.

- @naval

Why the sky high valuations for useless blockspace is existential to crypto, and how we can change this dynamic.

Thanks to David Minarsch, David Shi, Cem Dagdelen, Richard Blythman, Xinyuan Sun, and Barnabé Monnot for feedback and review.

Why I keep writing the same essay over and over again.

How the fastest growing companies are reframing their offering to win the hearts of customers

The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last

As more companies embrace new AI-enabled capabilities, a commonly held position is that established players will "win" by integrating AI features into their exi...

USD-pegged stablecoins are crucial for maintaining US financial dominance and stability. Here's why they are vital defense technology.