Category: Creator Confidential
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5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page
I was recently chatting with a friend who wanted to reach more software developers. I recalled some of the advice I gave him in my latest post at LinkedIn, which I’ve republished below: I’ve hit the front page of Hacker News 10+ times for Figma and other companies, and picked up five tactics along the…
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Notes on making The Consistency Journal
It’s been almost a year since we started developing the original idea for what turned into The Consistency Journal. This post is intentionally brief and incomplete: Sometimes an experiment needs months or years to work out. Taking on work outside of an experiment can buy the time and relaxation you need to sustain it. It…
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Find diverse sources of happiness
There are many aspects to life. When you let one of these aspects dominate the rest—say, a job, a relationship, a professional goal, or a vocation—you also tie your happiness to it. Whenever it inevitably fluctuates, so will your sense of well-being. A reliable way to create a life is to shrink the influence of…
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The freedom of generosity
A friend of mine practices two hobbies: photography and tennis. He recently found a way to blend them together by volunteering to take photos of local tennis clubs and tournaments. He could probably get paid a small fee, of course, but then he would be taking on a client. He would feel obligated to take…
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Venture mindset
Less than a year after introducing its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas to the world, OpenAI recently shut it down. My guess is the team decided to make a bet on building an AI browser, but the product wasn’t really working, and Google Chrome proved to be a strong incumbent. That resulted in a decision to…