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Just Do the Thing: Impostor Syndrome Lessons

Why W2 Income Is Losing the Wealth Game

Why Most Founders Shouldn't Build in Public

Overcoming Founder Loneliness

Only Get Feedback From Your Customers

Why Founders Give Pessimistic Startup Advice

Customer Support as a Retention Superpower

Time Wasters for Early Startup Founders

A more customer-centric team

Things I wasted time on as an early stage founder

Domains are more important than you think

How we work with lawyers

Which Career Game Are You Playing?

When should you start a company?

How to Decode Fluffy VC Phrases

What I Learned from Three Cofounding Styles

How We 1.5x’d Users in One Month

How Not to Email a Startup Hiring Manager

How Early-Stage Startups Can Win PR Without Agencies

How to Hard Launch Your Company

AI as Your Ultimate Thinking Partner

How I Found the Right Cofounder

6 Games to Play in Your Career

The Danger of Chasing Easy Wins

My Co-Founder Dating Process

AI is NOT Replacing Software Engineers… Yet

Challenges Faced by Women Founders

Severance Party Printouts for Watch Parties

Building MVP of an FAQ Management Tool

Financial System Discrimination

Creative marketing with 2 cents

Fintech & Data Paranoia

Summary: Built to Move

Why We Default to Linear Over Slack

Forcing Functions

Lumon Industries: Redefining Branding on LinkedIn

Now Cash Out in 5 New Countries

Stablecoins: Teleporting Money Across Borders

When Haters Validate Your Startup

How to Build a Kickass Life (by Kevin Dahlstrom)

Innovation Through Constraints: DeepSeek's Secret

The Power of Niching Down

Built an App in 1 Hour with AI

Best Way I Manage my Founder Psychology

Big Decisions Template

Anti-Sell Interview

Stop with the ads

General wedding planning tips

On live TV

Setting milestones & priorities

Vision, Mission & Strategy doc

Empowering my team: Everything is possible

Managing startup crises

Getting hate as a founder

How to Launch with Press and PR

How do we #KnowOurCustomer?

Arriving Home

Onboarding users 1-on-1

The Balikbayan Box

Gradients of a Hug

Naked

Working Well with Hourly-Billed Workers

Making Most of Conferences

My Real Estate Journey

My Beyonce moment / why I write

Why I quit my MBA journey

The Anti-Sell Hiring Interview

Annual Year in Review 2022

How to NOT get hired

Go small to go big

Designing design partnerships

Diversity in our cap table

The perfection of the 40-minute Zoom

Early team: To hire or not to hire?

Top 3 VC catchphrases during a fundraise

Myths about the cofounder search

Treat your hiring process like a product

My deep dive into the CFO Stack

Literal Win: Placing at the Solana Riptide Hackathon 2022

Managing My Psychology

Daily Learnings

How to Prevent NFT Cash Grabs

Why care about crypto

The Autonomy-Impact Axis 📊

Community as a Career Strategy

Comfort through normalization

Founder Ikigai 🔴🟡🟢🔵

Silver linings ✨

Why now?

Taking an asymmetric bet ✨

Shortcutting your life ✂️

How I manage my budget 💸

A new hope for immigrants 🌏

Crafting a successful launch 🚀

Lessons in finance 👉 lessons in life

A 2020 year in review 🔍

Come for the Value Prop, Stay for the Community

What would my ideal university of the future look like?

Reframing Disadvantage

Horizontals and Verticals in a Remote-First World

Forced Situations Keep Us Innovative

Life In the Time of Corona

We're Launching Consensus!

This 2020, Set Yourself Up for Success

How I Prepped for my PM Interviews

KP Fellowship FAQ

My Favorite Products of 2018

2018 Year-End Review

Check-In: 30 Days in my PM Job

From Near Deportation to LinkedIn PM

Hacks for the Early Career Techie

Product Interview Tips

IGTV vs. YouTube – who will win the fight?

The Great Obsolescence of Paper

What I Learned As An Airbnb Host

Wishful Longing

The Ultimate Millenial’s Personal Finance Guide (Part 2: Saving)

How to Get a PM Role Out of College

My Favorite TED Talk: a call for empathy in gender issues (& beyond)

Reflections of the Lost and (Temporarily) Found

The Ultimate Millenial’s Personal Finance Guide (Part 1: Budgeting)

Product Management Interviews for Newbs

A-WOW: Airbnb Words of Wisdom

The Ironic Story Towards Finding My North Star

A Not-So-Lyrical-But-Equally-Meaningful Ode to Mentors

Pricing Page Magic Tricks

To the Women Who Are “Too Nice”

The KP Fellowship: A How-To Guide

The Summer I Turned Adult

Dehumanization is Not The Answer to Equality

Horizons FAQ from a Horizons Fellow

On Opportunity vs. Happiness

One Pretty Badass Woman

Year 1 Startup Learnings