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 1268) Cat and Mouse Management
Managing employees who need constant pushing, and the thin line between accountability and draining supervision inside a startup.
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(DAY 1262) Internal Teaching Sessions
The Edzy product team took internal fifteen-minute lectures on Class 10 topics to manually experience what the product should support.
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(DAY 1261) Ten Intro Interviews
A day of around ten intro interviews and the steady work of aligning potential hires with company culture.
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(DAY 1260) Manual Review of Edzy
The Edzy product team manually reviewed the app, with new product features coming soon.
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(DAY 1255) Saturday Push for Edzy
A Saturday work push on the Edzy app focused on making it friendlier for students before the upcoming release.
Keep Going
More worth reading next
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(DAY 1228) Walking Is Underrated
Walking is underrated because it improves health, clears the mind, and creates some of the best thinking time away from screens.
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(DAY 1217) Betteridge's Law and Lazy Headlines
Betteridge's law of headlines captures an exhausting habit in online news: turning uncertainty into question-shaped bait for attention.
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(DAY 1216) Occam's Razor at Work
Occam's razor is a useful reminder at work: while handling ambiguity, the obvious explanation often deserves more probability than we give it.
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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.