Blog
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Dialed
The interviewee tells the host that the length of the human attention span has dropped to 47 seconds. That seems long.
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The Hierarchy of Whats
Everything is a What. Also, a Why. Also, a How. It's the Theory of Whelativity.
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Memory makings
Film photography memories captured and recalled.
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Where are the products?
Analysis of Paul Graham's 2010 essay and the market opportunity for attention management.
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The Next Bottleneck
Examines current and future bottlenecks in software development, including the implications of AI.
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What You Need Is Motivation
People-centered leadership and organizational dynamics in the age of cultural disillusionment.
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Urgent Is Not the Way
Corporate overreliance on urgency and its costs to employees, managers, and businesses.
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Dear Cat
An open letter to my mother's cat.
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Flattened
How conformity in work and media reduces individuality.
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You Won't Remember This
Knowledge, retention, and screen-based self-help.
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The Gap Theory of Exceptional Success
Finding and leveraging systemic vulnerabilities for success.
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Performative Investing
Venture capital hype cycles and their evolution.
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Pickup Basketball and the Joy of Immediate Feedback
Preference for feedback-rich environments.
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First Principles for Product Marketing 1
Non-urgent important work and complexity management.
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The real Defense Against the Dark Arts
Self-awareness and vulnerability in relationships.
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The Unnatural Practice of Attention
The natural equilibrium is attentional entropy.
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A Product Request
A user story about self-control and personal discipline.
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The Attention Value Problem
Economic perspectives on attention valuation.
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The Communication Problem (or "Why I Love Voice Notes")
The implications of the Communication Problem are sobering: I'll never fully understand you, you'll never fully understand me, and we should think about how we want to handle that.
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Never Pooped On
Most people live a more carefree life; some small percentage of them, on any given day, will get pooped on.
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Hello and welcome
I'm Ethan, and this is my personal blog.