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74 from 1 Jan 2001 to 20 Jul 2026
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2026 1

  1. Building on ATProto

2025 1

  1. AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant

2023 2

  1. Those Great New Calendar Tools Probably Won't Help You
  2. Do I Hate Investors?

2020 7

  1. My Monopolies
  2. Designing Tomorrow’s Privacy
  3. Don’t Make Board Decks
  4. Entrepreneur, Stage 1: Bootstrapping, Burnout, and Babies
  5. The First Two-Million-Dollar Check
  6. How TechCrunch is like the Iliad
  7. P-Hacking in Startups

2019 7

  1. The Automator's Dilemma
  2. Series: Blockchain Without Blockchain
  3. Series: Power tools
  4. Series: Venture Capital
  5. My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
  6. A Writing Report: Two Years In
  7. The Rights You Lost When the Document Died

2018 32

  1. Follow your weird
  2. Review of the 2018 iPad Pro
  3. We Were Promised Flying Cars and Five Hour Work Weeks
  4. Great advisors reveal your truth, not theirs
  5. Hold on to your why
  6. Owning My Strava Ride
  7. How to Neg a Founder
  8. An alternative crypto-history
  9. The virtue of a tool
  10. Several short sentences
  11. Decentralize Your Data
  12. Trusting more with the blockchain
  13. Blockchain without Blockchain
  14. The power of better tools
  15. The Market Is Wrong About Your Problems
  16. Owning my writing
  17. Why We Hate Working for Big Companies
  18. Abandoning Trello
  19. Great design is ruining software
  20. Putting OKRs Into Practice
  21. Where does your work live?
  22. Founding Myths are Pernicious Propaganda
  23. Apple Has a Focus Problem
  24. My Computers Are All Broken
  25. Software At the Coal Face
  26. Strategy Is Culture
  27. If You Take Venture Capital, You’re Forcing Your Company To Exit.
  28. One Investor Isn’t Enough
  29. Unicorns Distract Us from a Graveyard
  30. Venture Capital Is Built on Serendipity
  31. Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption
  32. Why the Most Successful VC Firms Keep Winning

2017 21

  1. The Tension at the Heart of a Freemium Business
  2. Should You Open Source Your Product? That’s the Wrong Question
  3. Moving Beyond Silicon Valley Software Companies
  4. Stopping the Software Factory
  5. Framing the Risk in Your Business
  6. Productivity Is Not About People
  7. Leadership Is Direction Plus Constraints
  8. When It Comes to Culture, You Can Be Right, or You Can Be Successful
  9. The High Cost of Fitting In
  10. How Can I Help?
  11. It Shouldn’t Get Easier
  12. Learning to Write
  13. The Job of the Filesystem
  14. The Wrong Successes Kill Companies
  15. The Binary Future of Software Companies
  16. Start With the Dangerous Questions
  17. Your Whiteboard and Post-Its Aren’t Kanban
  18. I’m Often Asked
  19. Why That Startup Advice is Useless
  20. Developing My Future
  21. No, You Don’t Learn More from Failure

2015 1

  1. The case for the iPad’s long-term future

2001 2

  1. Advising
  2. Consulting