My First Million

The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.

Learning from experts is more efficient than self-directed learning for successful people

Sean hiring AI tutors at $500/hour, Jess Ma hiring biology tutors to enter biotech

Successful people should budget significantly for expert-led learning rather than trying to learn everything themselves

Self-directed learning builds deeper understanding and costs less

Hire domain experts as tutors when entering new fields rather than reading books and taking courses alone

Reinvestment Runway Analysis

Evaluating businesses based on how effectively they can reinvest profits back into growth versus needing to deploy capit

Gossip as Information Efficiency

Using other people's experiences and recommendations as an efficient way to make decisions without direct experience

Plunge Tour Marketing

A product seeding strategy where you deliver products for free to influential people in a concentrated geographic area w

Eat This Not That Content Format

A content format that directly compares mainstream products against better alternatives, explaining why one is bad and p

Six Inches Framework

A business execution philosophy focused on tackling the most immediate, obvious problem in front of you rather than comp

Comfortable Beginner Framework

A systematic approach to entering new fields by accepting beginner status, hiring experts as teachers, and building know