Founder Mode
A useful provocation about the difference between operating a company as its founder and managing one by convention.
BuildingLeadership
A relay for useful ideas.
A starter collection of builders, writers, founders, artists, and people who see the world differently—ready to become your personal index.
Reading Desk
7 verified starter sources
7 sources visible
Reading Desk
Startup Advice
Compact operating advice on products, teams, momentum, competition, and the early decisions that compound.
BuildingStartups
The Customer Development Manifesto
Seventeen principles for treating a startup as a search process rather than a smaller version of a large company.
BuildingStartups
David Heinemeier Hansson — World
An ongoing feed about software, independent companies, small teams, technology, and the arguments around them.
BuildingTechnology
The Complete FADER Interview, 2008
A long, unedited conversation about creative range, taste, music, design ambition, and working until an idea becomes good.
CreativityCulture
其实我根本就不叛逆
关于写作动机、独立、市场、文学与现实的一次早期长访谈。
WritingCulture
You’ve Got to Find What You Love
The Stanford commencement address on connecting the dots, doing work you care about, and remembering that time is finite.
LifeCreativity
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Fragments
Short lines / full sources
Lines worth
keeping close.
Every fragment links to a speech or interview. Context stays one click away.
01 / Learning
“Go to bed every night a little wiser than when you got up.”
Charlie Munger USC Law commencement, 2007 ↗
02 / Life “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
Steve Jobs Stanford commencement, 2005 ↗
03 / Creativity “I’m not in a competition with anyone.”
Kanye West TIME interview, 2015 ↗
04 / Writing “文学就是写自己心里要表达的，卖得好，卖得不好，不关文学的事。”
韩寒 《其实我根本就不叛逆》，2007 ↗
People Index
An expanding map
Follow people,
not feeds.
- 01Paul Graham
- 02Sam Altman
- 03Steve Blank
- 04DHH
- 05Kanye West
- 06韩寒
- 07Steve Jobs
- 08Charlie Munger
This is a working index, not an endorsement ledger. A saved idea can be useful without becoming a complete worldview.
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