Reader Journey
Founders
This path is for readers who care about startup judgment, team quality, incentives, and the emotional reality of building something that has to survive contact with the market.
People building companies or thinking seriously about doing it.
Flagship
A few durable places to start
These are the pages and posts most likely to orient you before the archive gets wider.
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Entrepreneurship
The broad founder layer: incentives, hiring, growth, execution, and the slower lessons that company-building keeps teaching.
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Building Edzy
The clearest window into what I am building now and how product, hiring, and mission show up in real decisions.
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Interviews, Interviews, Interviews
A founder note on why hiring in a team of fewer than ten people is company-building, not admin.
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You Can Only Improve What You Measure
A practical essay about why progress gets real only when it becomes visible and trackable.
Start Here
The best first reads for this path
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(DAY 1210) Fighting Solo and Finding Escape Velocity
Building a business in isolation is a lonely battle, but escape velocity comes from staying dangerously close to your users and letting their needs pull you forward.
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(DAY 1203) Motivation Reveals Itself in Conversation
Interviews and conversations reveal a lot if you listen closely, especially when it comes to spotting motivated people, even if finding the right fit still takes time and luck.
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(DAY 1202) Summaries Help Preserve Context
Startups speak with hundreds of candidates and people in the ecosystem, and short summaries become essential if you want to retain useful context months later.
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(DAY 1199) The Moat Is the Personalization Engine
Wharton-backed research on AI tutors reinforces a key idea for Edzy: the real moat is not the chatbot, but the engine that decides what each student should practice next.
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(DAY 1198) Remembering the People Who Actually Know SEO
The SEO people who share real nuance tend to stay memorable, especially when their posts or comments solve problems that actually matter.
Keep Going
More worth reading next
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(DAY 1193) Why Anxious and Avoidant People Attract
Anxious and avoidant relationship styles often attract each other, and there is a real internal logic to why that dynamic keeps repeating.
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(DAY 1181) Edzy and an Invitation to Imaginxt 2026
Edzy has been invited to Imaginxt 2026 at the Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai, and I am thinking through whether and how we should participate.
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(DAY 1175) LinkedIn Services Is a Boon for Freelancers
LinkedIn Services and its proposal flow are genuinely useful for freelancers and independent professionals trying to get into serious consideration quickly.
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(DAY 1171) Giving Someone Another Shot
Most decisions on team fit are a no unless they become a clear yes, but today I chose to give one intern a little more runway.
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(DAY 1168) Practical and Pragmatic Conversations Matter
Met Anshul Gupta from TrueAlpha today, and the conversation stood out for being grounded, practical, and genuinely useful.
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(DAY 1166) Get Out of the Building
A reminder that one of the oldest startup lessons still holds: get out of the building and meet your customer.
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(DAY 1165) Edzy Is Now Live on iOS
After multiple rounds with Apple App Store Connect and a few custom iOS changes, Edzy is finally live on the iOS App Store.