The Full Stack Founder (November 2025) . The Full Stack Founder A full stack founder is someone who has enough skills across many parts of a company, from product and engineering to team and capital. It is not about mastery in every area, but about knowing enough to follow what is going on and to join the work when needed. Just like a full stack engineer works across the entire technical stack, a full stack founder works across the entire company stack. ...

40/40/20 for Developers (November 2025) . Most developers spend 100% of their time just coding and wonder why they’re not growing. The game changed when AI got good enough to write code with you. If you’re not adjusting your time allocation, you’re already behind. 40% - actual deep work: writing code, designing architectures learning new paradigms, reviewing other people’s code, the stuff that still needs real human developer as of 2025. 40% - using AI tools: to optimize everything, learning Cursor, Claude Code and new coding assistant tools coming out, MCP and all the experimental AI, bringing collective coding intelligence into your workflow, making yourself faster. ...

World Class Network (November 2025) . If you can take out your phone and reach out to three people performing at the highest level, especially people you’ve actually worked with or know well enough that they’d respond, then you have a world class network. People building businesses at global scale, working on cutting edge science or tech, competing at world championships, creating art or music that reaches global audiences. If you can’t think of any, then that’s something to think about. ...

Here and There in a Game (October 2025) . When you play an open world game like GTA or Skyrim, you experience walking through a whole city or landscape where different locations seem real and separate. The shop is here on this street, the mission location is way over there across town, your safe house is somewhere else. As you play, these places feel genuinely distant from each other, and it takes time to travel between them. But here’s what’s actually happening. ...

Default Mode (October 2025) . Show a bone to a dog and watch what happens. Something deep in its operating system just fires up and it moves toward the bone, same with ants and sugar or moths and light. They have a default mode for this, programmed so deep they cannot help but follow them. Humans aren’t that different, we just have more layers of defaults and most of us don’t even know they’re running in the background. ...