This week we read
Six pieces from the past seven days. Each one read by hand. Each one chosen for the person building something. No algorithms. No feed.
- 01
On the value of slow decisions
Paul Graham - 2024The best founders we have studied do not rush. They sit with problems longer than their competitors. This essay is the clearest statement of that instinct we have read this year.
- 02
Revenue before product-market fit
Jason Fried - Signal archiveRevenue is not a lagging indicator of product-market fit. It is the leading one. The argument reframed plainly.
- 03
The loneliness at the top is real
SOE Chronicle, Issue 03A founder's own words on isolation - not as a weakness to fix, but as a condition to understand.
- 04
Building in public: three years later
Courtland Allen - 2025What building in public actually looks like after the novelty wears off. Honest. Not a how-to. A reflection.
- 05
The case for constraint in creative work
Austin Kleon - Signal archiveConstraints are not the enemy of creativity. They are the reason creativity happens. Relevant to every founder who has ever felt limited.
- 06
Why most startup advice is survivorship bias
Evan Williams - 2024The co-founder of Twitter on why the stories we tell about building are mostly wrong, and what to read instead.
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