Are “wide-open” social networks the way that we should be interacting with each other? Maybe we should return to our roots in the physical world and build focused communities? Communities with shared interests and ideas, where people feel like they belong.

I’ve been told that I used to be a very curious person. Somewhere along the line I lost it, and now I’m trying to get it back. I’ve effectively created a system where I can choose what stays with me in the long-term. Having a reliable method to actually keep track of everything, rather than forgetting everything after a week, makes me so much more excited to discover and analyze new things. For one of the few times in my life, it makes learning, and following my curiosity, actually fun.

Over my career, I’ve accumulated a set of skills that have helped me work faster and get more stuff done in less time. I’ve mostly kept all of this knowledge to myself — until now. I’m sharing all of my secrets: The tools and strategies that I used to become a better analyst and PM. The Basics, Web Automation , Alternative Data Sources , Dashboards for Repeatable Analysis and Data Sharing , Scripting Languages (Python), No-Code Applications and UIs.

Many of us feel the most engaged in our work when we're building something new. Often times, the first step on that journey involves pitching your idea to someone in order to get their buy-in. In my career so far, I've had a few chances to pitch ideas that I was super excited about. But each time, no matter how clear or precise I tried to be, I struggled to get support to move forward. Something was missing, but I didn't know what. I recently learned a little bit about what VCs look for when they're evaluating startup ideas

It's time to come back to why now was the time for me to start working towards a side-project. Sure, months of remote work from home, and a global pandemic has left a huge void of time that can now be focused on something else. But, for every motivation, there's a spark that ignites it. For me, that was discovering the no-code/visual programming tools, Bubble and Webflow.

If you listen to or read enough startup and venture content, you'll start to recognize similar themes repeated over and over again. One that has consistently stood out to me is the investor concept that "Ideas don't matter. It's the founding team and their ability to execute that matters." This is meant to say that anyone could've had the idea for Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, etc (and others did). But, the only reason why we know of those companies today is because of how the team successfully executed on their vision by building products, listening

I have never been a startup founder. I am not a venture capitalist. I’ve spent a total of ~48 hours in the Bay Area. But I’m super interested in startups, venture, and thinking about the future. Today, most of venture capital (how startups raise money) sits within a few blocks in California, drawing startup founders and innovators from all over the world to converge to this region, Silicon Valley.During the COVID-19 response, this set-up began to crack. In a world where work from home became the norm, and Silicon Valley real estate was still