Growth is removing what's holding you back, not adding more
Personal growth and product growth follow the same law: progress comes from stripping away what's binding you, not accumulating more.
25 Sept · 2 minAttention, not memorization, is the durable skill
In a world run by AI, the ability to memorize becomes meaningless; the ability to pay attention stays valuable forever.
27 Oct · Martijn Verbove · 1 min
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Failure is the tuition fee for competence, not a verdict
Every real skill, including entrepreneurship, is bought with failed attempts — the goal is to fail fast and extract the lesson, not avoid failing.
14 Sept · 1 min · Founder Ground95% zero-ROI AI projects come from anxiety, not bad models
Most enterprise AI initiatives fail not because the technology underperforms but because companies have AI anxiety instead of an AI strategy — pilots with no success criteria, no owner, no kill switch.
8 Sept · 2 minLaunch day is really a year-long process
Treating launch as a single event misreads how long the actual work of getting traction takes — plan the whole runway, not the day.
1 Sept · 1 minGrowth comes from fixing the biggest bottleneck, not adding more features
A review of Gymlab's funnel with an experienced operator showed the highest-leverage moves were converting to freemium, fixing broken screens, and tracking onboarding drop-off — not building more.
25 Aug · 1 minEvery autonomous system reduces to collect, validate, transform
An autonomous organization is a composition of just three primitives — collecting data, validating it, transforming it — everything else is arrangement of those three.
18 Aug · 1 minWorking joyfully outperforms working hard
Productivity is a downstream effect of a happy mind, not a hack layered on top of grinding.
11 Aug · 1 minThe browser is a programmable runtime, not just a viewer
Bookmarklets — JavaScript saved as a bookmark, built by asking Claude to inject a UI onto a page — turn the browser bar into a personal toolbox with zero installs or servers.
4 Aug · 1 min