Writing “Zen of Business Operations." It covers topics like "Enlightened Laziness " and "Less data provides more Information." (also an excel memes reply guy)
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4 Oct 2025
13 Business Lessons from Taylor Swift
As a top 3% global listener of Taylor Swift with nearly 2 decades of business experience, I'm uniquely qualified to present this mini-master course of 13 lessons from Life and Times of Taylor Swift
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“the wise elder has learned the limits of worry”
children are playful in part bc they haven’t yet learned to worry about outcomes
many teens and adults struggle to be playful because they have learned to worry
the wise elder is playful bc she has learned the limits of worry, and how worry itself limits your perception
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Give me your best overlooked detail from Star Wars. No big ideas or characters. I’m talking little things that often get overlooked but are critical to making the OT work so well.
Give me your best Star Wars nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.
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Jun 2
I’ll start: In ANH when the M. Falcon escapes the Death Star: Leia immediately concludes Vader attached a tracking beacon: It silences nitpicks that they’d be able to escape so easily; establishes Leia as a seasoned character in the war; and efficiently sets up the final sequence
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May 29
Ridiculous take.
This drive is possibly the greatest highway drive in America.
Getting to see the Rockies rise above the plains, progressively, over half a day, is an American birthright and existential experience.
May 29
The most "boring" drive between two American cities: Denver to Kansas City, MO.
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Like many VCs, I really do believe Anthropic and OpenAI are the last startups.
There is no point to building anything else.
Everything has been solved or will be shortly.
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May 18
Sometimes a sentence cuts right to the heart of the human experience in a profound way.
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May 17
“Transparency Provides Less Information”
New post from Zen of Business Operations
"Transparency of the the details leads to noise around what’s important; that is why it provides less information"
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May 14
Isn't it odd how we say "meteoric rise" even though meteors are specifically defined by their falling?
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May 14
He’s about to send the report to the senior execs. Drop some #REFS in the summary page because he deleted a random cell in an amortization table
@ExcelHumor
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May 8
The bottlenecks will continue until morale improves:
"...actually do the last mile of work that they can’t. And it turns out the last mile still takes up a giant chunk of time."
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May 5
The last 20% isn't most of the work, it's all of the work.
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May 3
parenting is hard actually. but doing hard things is good. i don't know why everybody started talking like hard things are intrinsically bad. you can't just relax your way into a good life. it takes effort
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May 1
Crazy how backwards this is. The "yes guy" is now in infinite supply, just type `claude` and you've got a new one. The "no guy" is the one in demand: the one who points out all the problems with all the slop your slopcannons are trying to merge to prod.
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Apr 27
after years of searching, the student gave up and went to Best Buy and got a 48 inch LG OLED AI B5 4K Smart TV that was on clearance.
at the checkout counter, the Master said "Is there anything else I can help you with today?" and at that moment the student was enlightened
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Apr 27
When you want the LLM to do that one simple thing:
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Apr 25
“Everyone can code now!”
Dude, no one can code now.
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Apr 21
One of the most fundamentally annoying parts of gardening is that every time we remove a weed, we're providing selection pressure that helps the weed species evolve to become better weeds.
(Also applies to relationships, politics, AI alignment...)
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