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What I Learned at Clubhouse 📓
After 2 years at Clubhouse, I’ve taken away many personal lessons on how to build and scale startups — especially products, communities, and teams — and…
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The Generational Business Trap
On the varied longevity of businesses & why we shouldn't idolize permanence.
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Anxiety, Agency, & Ikigai in the Age of AI
In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest online discourse.
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Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
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The Generational Business Trap
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Ritual Social
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Collective Experiences
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The Revival of Consumer Social 📈
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Product vs. Production
HQ Trivia, TikTok Trivia, & the not-so-subtle art of creating compelling live media.
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Collective Experiences
On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
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Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
In 2023, we’ll see more Silicon Valley startups that operate like small businesses. And some of them will have big outcomes. Perhaps even billion-dollar…
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Ritual Social
In consumer social, rituals have been likened to just a feature, a mechanic, or a new entry strategy. They haven’t been celebrated as the main thing…
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Community Fission & Fusion
Communities are fundamentally groups, and groups aren’t static, they’re dynamic — constantly forming, evolving, fragmenting, and even breaking apart.
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The Group Chat Renaissance
What's old is new again. The most important way to connect today predates every ‘social network’ and effectively predates the web itself — it’s the…
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Group-Generated Content
User-generated content (UGC) platforms have historically focused on the individual, but content creation is increasingly collaborative. Each contributor…
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