A Bit Gamey

Five principles to productise yourself

The only safe investment in the long run is in yourself

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

Five psychological stages to product success

Winning the war of the heart

Oct 26 • 

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Four skills to survive the AI revolution

Accept the coming change and develop high-leverage human skills

Oct 19 • 

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Phil tries to understand MCP: The universal plug for AI

Model Context Protocol lets AI plug into tools, apps and data.

Oct 12 • 

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Five step storytelling framework

Zoom into the moment

Oct 5 • 

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September 2025

Reasons to be cheerful

Progress is neither automatic nor inevitable, but it is the most reliable trend we know.

Sep 28 • 

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Being unknown is an advantage

Nothing to lose and everything to gain

Sep 21 • 

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Thirteen principles for startups

Paul Graham, legendary tech investor, suggests the most important thing for startup founders to do is understand their users. Everything else flows from…

Sep 14 • 

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Five product development steps Elon Musk applies

Building exceptional products requires the application of first principles thinking, driven by iteration and efficiency.

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Five superpowers comedians can teach us

Comedians have learnable superpowers which we can all benefit from.

Aug 31 • 

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Share a spiky point of view

Pick a fight (in a good way)

Aug 24 • 

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Why efficiency blinds us to opportunity

Seen costs and unseen opportunities distort decision making

Aug 17 • 

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