Building My Health OS
I used Claude Code, a Mac Mini, and an Apple Ultra to build a personal health operating system — and an AI assistant called Zeus that messages me on Telegram when my body needs attention.
Blog
14 posts
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Writing Again
Six years between posts. Here's why I'm back.
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Building High Performance Startup Teams
Insights from 2 weeks at Stripe exploring best practices for building top-performing teams. Building teams is equal parts art and science.
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TAM for Startups - Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
Total addressable market can be a big challenge for startups. Here is how to approach TAM with a bottom-up methodology.
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9 Concepts to Master for Successful People Managers in Startups
Everyone's first management role comes with growing pains. Here are 9 concepts every people manager should master.
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How Can Europe Win the Global Startup War?
A blueprint for how Europe can compete with Asia and the USA to build world-beating startups, focusing on venture capital, talent, and a single market.
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How to Hypercharge Your 2020
Practical tools and frameworks for planning, goal setting, and measuring progress -- drawn from a decade of applying startup operating models to personal growth.
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Books Read in 2019
A look at the 16 books I finished in 2019, with a bias towards startup and philosophy books.
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What a Difference a Year Makes
Reflecting on a year of change, growth, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Why I Learned to Code After a Decade in Tech
After nearly ten years managing partnerships and engineering teams at Twitter and Stripe, I enrolled in a coding bootcamp. Here's why a senior operator decided to finally learn to build, and what the experience taught me about engineering, learning, and the gap between managing builders and being one.
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Top 10 books that changed how I think in 2018
I read a lot of books in 2018. The majority on management and strategy; these books are the ones which challenged my existing mental models of the world the most
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How to Build an Exceptional Work Culture that Values 'Originality'?
In any organisation you will encounter many different types of performers. There will always be a mix of A+, B and C type people. Something I've been preoccupied by is how to maintain originality in organisations. I believe this is made possible through malleable top-performers and organisational planning and foresight on how to nurture 'Originals' in cultures should be a focus for every leader.
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The challenges with app marketing and distribution in 2017
App marketing has distribution and scaling challenges as a system. There are a tonne of supply constraints and demand scarcity economics which will impact the ability for newcomers to launch and distribute mobile applications. This is an except from a talk I gave at PGC Connects analysing the forces at play and potential routes to circumvent these.
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The Godfather of great management & Silicon Valley management practices
A founder and operator guide to scaling tech companies courtesy of Andy Grove. Andy Grove's management philosophy is a long-time favorite of Silicon Valley founders. During my time managing teams at Twitter this management framework was launched in the company by Dick Costolo as part of Twitter's people management and operations philosophy.