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Building a Company from First Principles Oct 2026 The people, the right problem, focus, iteration speed, and simplicity: the principles I keep coming back to when building a company. Shipping Faster with Tiny Vertical Slices Sep 2026 It is possible shipping many times fast and creating a lot more value by being much more extreme in scoping things down. In this essay, I'm making showing how to execute that and what to avoid. On the alphalist CTO Podcast: The Company Brain Aug 2026 I joined Tobias Schlottke on the alphalist CTO Podcast to talk about how Kombo replaced Notion AI with a git repo of markdown files and Cursor cloud agents, and how we think about the lethal trifecta.
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- 01 Put trust first.
- 02 Optimize for your own energy.
- 03 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
- 04 Do things as complex as necessary, as simple as possible.
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