The Questions I Ask Before I Recommend AI Hello Reader, Last week, I shared my recent article in Valiant CEO about why every successful founder eventually becomes the bottleneck. The response was overwhelming. What struck me most wasn't the number of people who read it. It was how many people told me afterwards: "I finally understand what you mean." That mattered to me. Because the real challenge isn't explaining AI. It's helping people see that AI isn't the starting point. Over the past few...
5 days ago • 1 min read
Good morning Reader, Last week, I wrote about how building something worthwhile changes the builder first. The company evolves. The story evolves. And, almost without noticing, so do you. But there is another stage in the journey that many successful founders eventually reach. The business has grown. Their expertise has become valuable. Clients want their judgement. Teams rely on their decisions. Opportunities increasingly depend on their involvement. From the outside, it looks like success....
12 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Every Sunday, I sit down and reflect on the previous seven days before writing this email. And every week, I'm left with exactly the same thought. How did so much happen in just one week? Conversations. Ideas. Challenges. New relationships. New opportunities. New perspectives. It feels as though months of progress are somehow compressed into a handful of days. A few weeks ago I was still in Bali, surrounded by founders from around the world, questioning assumptions and...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Good morning Reader, Every Sunday, I sit down and reflect on the previous seven days before writing this email. And every week, I'm left with exactly the same thought. How did so much happen in just one week? Conversations. Ideas. Challenges. New relationships. New opportunities. New perspectives. It feels as though months of progress are somehow compressed into a handful of days. A few weeks ago I was still in Bali, surrounded by founders from around the world, questioning assumptions and...
19 days ago • 1 min read
Good day to you Reader, Over the past few weeks I've written about conviction, asking better questions, and appreciating the people we assume will always be there. This week reinforced another lesson. We tend to imagine that life changes in dramatic moments. The investment. The big client. The breakthrough. The overnight success. But, in my experience, that's rarely how it happens. The future usually arrives quietly. Through conversations. One meeting introduces another. One idea leads to a...
23 days ago • 1 min read
Good day to you Reader, Over the past few weeks I've written about conviction, asking better questions, and appreciating the people we assume will always be there. This week reinforced another lesson. We tend to imagine that life changes in dramatic moments. The investment. The big client. The breakthrough. The overnight success. But, in my experience, that's rarely how it happens. The future usually arrives quietly. Through conversations. One meeting introduces another. One idea leads to a...
25 days ago • 1 min read
The Things We Assume Will Always Be There Last Sunday I landed back in London after a month in Bali. It was one of the most productive and transformative weeks I've had in a long time. The conversations were exceptional. The ideas were exceptional. The people were exceptional. I came away with new perspectives, new opportunities, new friendships, and a renewed sense of conviction about where we are heading with yoorz.ai. But something unexpected happened when I got home. I spent time with my...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
The horizon never comes with guarantees.Bali, Indonesia Hi Reader, I came across an interesting clip this week following the SpaceX IPO. Elon Musk reflected on the early days of SpaceX and said something most founders rarely admit: He thought the company would probably fail. Not 50%. Not “it might be difficult.” Fail. The IPO is impressive. The valuation is impressive. The technology is impressive. But I don’t think that’s the most interesting lesson. The most interesting lesson is that one...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Better questions. Better decisions. Hi Reader, I've spent the last 3 weeks in Bali surrounded by founders, entrepreneurs, operators, and investors. Different industries. Different backgrounds. Different businesses. But I've noticed something interesting. The highest-value people rarely give you answers. They give you better questions. Questions that force you to think differently. Questions that expose assumptions. Questions that challenge certainty. Questions that make you realise you've...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read