When looking for something to read, you can choose between fiction, non-fiction, plays, poetry, this blog post, your other emails… the list goes on. And then within each of those categories there’s genres: within non-fiction there’s self-help books, biographies, journalism, memoirs… the list, again, goes on. There are many kinds of memes, just as there many kinds of writing. And like different kinds of writing, different kinds of memes do different jobs.
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Today I break down the framework that shapes many successful founder stories, share examples from brands like Spanx, Tesla, Patagonia, Huda Beauty, and Ben & Jerry’s, and share a Spotify podcast playlist I’ve pre-loaded with successful leaders sharing their (very well-crafted) founder stories. ⤵️
First: What is a founder’s story?
It’s the company’s origin story. It’s the tale of the individual or group that brought a company to life. This is the story the founder tells when he or she talks about the business.
How to create a culture of dogfooding
2024-12-04
Happy New Year! New Year, new you amirite!? I spent a few hours over break reflecting on 2023 using this Figjam template (which you can copy and use - for free!). I know we set OKRs and goals for our jobs, but as a Builder, it’s helpful to do a similar exercise for yourself too. What do you want to accomplish in 2024 and how does that set you on a path to reach your longer-term goals?
If there’s one word that will define engineering and tech in 2023, it will be “Efficiency.”
From Meta to Google to early-stage startups, tech companies have gone from a “growth-at-all-costs” mindset to figuring out how to get more out of the teams they have. This focus on efficiency is usually seen as a way to drive two essential company goals:
Improve quality and speed of software delivery; and
Enable engineering teams to have a more significant impact on the business bottom line.
In this post, I’ll analyze one big meme.
This meme was posted by @sterlingcrispin to Twitter on March 26th, 2023. I hope picking a meme and really breaking it down by looking at each piece, as if it were a poem or painting, is a valuable exercise — and not just me killing the joke by explaining it too much.
Crispin posted this meme as a response to the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT4 (which came out on March 14th, 2023) and the nauseating amount of Twitter discourse about it in the weeks that followed.
One of the most delicate balancing acts I’ve tried is one of knowing when to step all the way in and when to jump all the way out—in writing, in friendship, and mostly, in parenting. The stakes always seem high, the list is always long, and shame, fear, and regret don't take one minute off.
To counter-balance the decision fatigue that often comes with caring (or in my case, over-caring) I’ve been imperfectly practicing my own liturgy of lightheartedness, inspired in part by the following concepts:
Today many jokesters take precautionary measures against cancel culture. They self censor. They avoid the thorniest of topics or at least exhibit extreme caution around them.
Then there’s South Park.
Since its debut in 1997, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have poked the bear. Whether it’s race, sex, religion, trans issues or #MeToo, they keep on poking. And 26 seasons later, they still haven’t gotten mauled. After their latest cannonball into taboo waters—the special episode “Joining the Panderverse”— the duo seems mightier than ever.
This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make meaningful contributions to work, but feel they aren’t that smart and don’t have any talent.
Be audacious. Most people who are talented or smart are scared of doing things. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s more often than not the case. The ability to do scary things on their behalf is extremely powerful, both in terms of advancing the goal/project and also getting them to better utilize their talents.