A Social Gameshow

Victor sent me a random WhatsApp message one Sunday He referenced a social media gameshow called HQ https://medium.com/swlh/the-rise-and-fall-of-hq-the-social-media-trivia-game-show-3a15d58a528e which I never got around to reading - somehow, I wasn’t convinced. But a week later I got thinking, ...

July 2024 Take 1

Product Weekly: July 2024 Take 1 Product Review I went to a block party recently and noticed that the wristbands were rather unique: made of cloth, with a plastic fastener that made it reusable. It was pretty sturdy and hard to take off - if you didn’t pay attention to how the fastening ...

Mid-year Check-in: Reading List

I haven't read as much as i could this year, so thought it would be good to do a dump of everything I have going on on the book front, just to keep track somewhere outside my head. Read recently Lateral thinking, Ed de Bono: Long, arduous read that slowed my reading pace for months, but great ...

Waiting for a Mentor

I see a lot of people online asking others who’ve demonstrated some mark of mastery in an area to be their mentor. Now a mentor can provide numerous advantages, especially when they’ve been directly involved in the thing you’re pursuing, so this isn’t an attempt to argue otherwise. Let’s face ...

The Thrill of Shipping

There’s a feeling when you take an idea and execute on it to produce something tangible. It’s such a powerful feeling, and even better in a group setting when you can tangibly feel the excitement of being part of something that actually gets done. This feeling compounds: the more you ship and ...