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November 1, 2023
My Map for Fatherhood
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October 26, 2023
There Are No Bad Teams: A Lesson in the Importance of Vision
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October 19, 2023
A Better Way to Work: With Friends
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October 12, 2023
Vulnerable Questions: A Tool For Deeper Connection
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July 22, 2023
Golden Failure
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July 15, 2023
Patience is bad advice (for a young person)
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July 7, 2023
“Should I Stay Or Should I Go? – Unearned Contempt versus Unearned Love
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June 29, 2023
Emotional Resistance and Happiness
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June 22, 2023
Freedom
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June 15, 2023
In Plain VIEW - an antidote to self-management
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June 1, 2023
High contempt for school and the future of learning
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May 3, 2023
"Return To Sender" Leaders: How We Avoid Giving Feedback & Crush Connection
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April 27, 2023
The Zenned Up Predator: The Fuel of Enlightened Action
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November 3, 2022
The Rat Race Antidote: Get to the Office Last
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October 27, 2022
The Failure of Certainty
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October 20, 2022
Canceling the NIMBY Delusion: How Honoring Our Past Will Save Our Future
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October 13, 2022
A meditative journey through dystopia
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March 24, 2022
Snakes and Platypus
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March 23, 2022
Linear Action, Exponential Results
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March 14, 2022
The Ice Cream Sales Plan: Why Startups Should Never Pay Sales Commission to Their First Sales Rep
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February 11, 2022
Will hardware wallet Ledger eat Coinbase’s user base and become crypto’s biggest exchange?
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February 10, 2022
Why retiring early is a dumb idea and what I learned from my mistake
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February 8, 2022
What a SaaS founder should pay their first sales rep
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February 7, 2022
A beginner’s take on the hardware wallet industry and Ledger’s massive advantage
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February 6, 2022
A practical guide to finding your life purpose in 2022
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January 24, 2022
Why managers suck at managing their best employees and how to fix it
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January 22, 2022
How to fire your top performer and improve your team’s performance
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January 19, 2022
The Secret To Flow Is Not What You Think It Is
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January 16, 2022
The Best Leaders Are Harder To Spot
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January 15, 2022
A Failure of Trust
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January 13, 2022
Ease Your Pain: Sales Metrics for Startups
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January 11, 2022
The Sales Valley of Death & Big Salty, Salesy Tears
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November 24, 2021
The Greatest Monetary Experiment in History
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October 13, 2021
The "More Time" Fallacy
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October 11, 2021
Turtle Talk
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September 30, 2021
Best of SaaStr Annual 2021
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September 23, 2021
The Founding Fathers were Bitcoiners
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September 15, 2021
The Brutal Career Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me
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January 10, 2020
The Secret to Avoiding Burnout: Balancing Energy with Output
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December 17, 2019
Dear Sales Rep: the phone is not the ENEMY
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November 25, 2019
Can I have a discount with that?
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November 7, 2019
Performance fear
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October 23, 2019
The best professional gift EVER
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August 16, 2019
"Check your emotions at the door" is BS advice
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August 9, 2019
The most underrated value today is TOUGHNESS
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July 18, 2019
Take a chance in your career
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June 12, 2019
The most important sales manager skill is EMPATHY
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May 9, 2019
Tough love: the key to early career sales success
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March 28, 2019
3 Productivity Hacks That Actually Work
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March 8, 2019
#QuoteMoreWomen
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February 26, 2019
The greatest for of empathy is FEEDBACK
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January 16, 2019
3 Reasons Your First Job Needs To Be Sales
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