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Every week, I share my thoughts and experiences on business, entrepreneurship, and life. Here you'll find insights from my journey as a founder and entrepreneur.
Clarity Is the Cure
When your brain doesn't know what's coming next, it panics. Cortisol spikes. Heart rate climbs. Your entire system shifts into survival mode. But here's what I've learned: clarity isn't just a nice-to-have. It's the difference between drowning and swimming.
The Best Advice a Father Ever Gave
Walking through rainy London streets, my wife told me about Haldun Dormen—one of Turkey's most beloved thespians who just passed away at 98. When he was young, he wrote to his father about his dream of becoming an actor. His father's reply contained just one sentence that shaped everything: "Whatever you want to do, do it. But do it in the best way you can." Permission paired with a standard. Freedom paired with excellence. It's the advice I want to carry forward to my own children.
Society Calls You a Dilettante. I Call It Strategic Redundancy
For as long as I can remember, I've been told to focus on one thing. At 47, after launching more than 20 businesses since 1998, I finally realized the truth: my inability to specialize wasn't a weakness—it was my superpower. While specialists become fragile when their industry changes, I built redundancy. Multiple pillars of expertise that let me pivot, adapt, and survive when markets disappeared overnight. If you've spent your life jumping between interests and feeling guilty about it, stop apologizing. You're not a dilettante. You're building an M-shaped mind.
The Mailbox Method: Why Your To-Do List Doesn't Need Drama
What if your to-do list didn't need a pep talk? Most entrepreneurs treat their daily tasks like battles to win—pumping themselves up, fighting resistance, pushing through. But that intensity creates the very obstacles you're trying to overcome. The mailbox method is different: you don't hype yourself up to get the mail, you just go get it. Your tasks work the same way. Each one is simply mail waiting to be collected—no drama required.
The 9 Brutal Truths About Building a SaaS Business
Rob Walling has spent 20+ years building and exiting SaaS companies. In his video "The Brutal Truths of Building a SaaS Business," he lays out the 9 realities that nobody warns you about—from the long slow ramp of death that kills most founders' dreams, to why your social media audience won't save your launch, to the churn problem that destroys everything you build. I watched it, took notes, and wrote down my key takeaways so I can reference them whenever I need a reality check. These truths aren't meant to scare you off. They're meant to prepare you.
Resilience Isn't About Never Giving Up
Resilience has become a buzzword that celebrates "never giving up," but this definition keeps us stuck in the wrong battles. Real resilience isn't about grinding through failing strategies for years—it's about moving forward no matter what happens. Your project failed? Move to the next one. Your biggest customer left? Find the next ten. Strategic quitting isn't weakness; it's the underrated skill that separates people who succeed from people who just burn out. The difference between swimming against currents and surfing waves is knowing when to let go and when to push forward.
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