A Bit Gamey

How I built an app in a day

Launching teaches you what you should have been building

Oct 11 • Phil Martin

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How mimetic desire shapes startups

We mistake popularity for evidence

Oct 4 • Phil Martin

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September 2026

When earning more stops making sense

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Sep 27 • Phil Martin

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How to find the obvious solution

The obvious is nearly always simple

Sep 20 • Phil Martin

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Solve the problem, not the idea

Your product is not someone’s problem

Sep 13 • Phil Martin

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The rise of taste

What makes art good is the point of view

Sep 6 • Phil Martin

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August 2026

What Kevin Kelly taught me about starting, experimenting and persisting

The best way to criticise something is to make something better

Aug 30 • Phil Martin

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How Steve Jobs persuaded people

Think different

Aug 23 • Phil Martin

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Building our AI skill stack

Stay under your own power in the age of agents

Aug 16 • Phil Martin

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Find the bottleneck

Balance flow, not capacity

Aug 9 • Phil Martin

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Why clever people make bad decisions

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one

Aug 2 • Phil Martin

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July 2026

Proven Better New: How to build products people want

Keep what works, fix what doesn’t and add what’s missing

Jul 26 • Phil Martin

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