Myth I need to find a mentor.
Better I need one idea and one week to try it.
People · zero to learning from others
Steal ideas, not personas.
People worth following give you one idea you can use Monday morning. Not inspiration — a specific move.
Building blocks
Four things to extract
Idea, craft, voice, influence.
Four things to extract
- Idea — one move you can try Monday
- Craft — what they ship on schedule
- Voice — plain words vs jargon
- Influence — who they learned from
Craft
What they do repeatedly
Not what they say — what they ship on schedule.
Not what they say on podcasts — what they publish repeatedly. Essays on schedule. Products that ship. That repetition is the craft signal.
Voice
How they sound
Plain words vs jargon is a choice you can copy ethically.
One idea I took
Go deeper
Steal ideas, not personas
Taste is knowing what to take and what to leave.
Gallery
My people collection — one detail per piece.
Paul Graham
Do things that do not scale — still the best filter for side projects.
One sentence essay titles — the constraint is the craft.
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Grid as ethics — order as generosity to the reader.
Current crush
Placeholder — one person in focus this month.
Notes
- A good question is worth more than ten opinions.
- I learn from public figures — friends get protection.