Is success or failure brought by chance or through one’s own actions? How I learned to build products people care about.  

I’m insanely excited and honored to be writing a column at Fast Company Labs. It will be a narration of things I’m learning while building Draft.

Two years ago I crashed and burned at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. When I realized what I had done wrong, I endeavored to build Draft, a new way to improve people’s writing, without repeating my mistakes–and I think it’s working. Here’s what I did differently.

I introduce Draft and a process I’m using to try and build something innovative to help people write better, while avoiding more technology for technology’s sake. Also, how I met Ashton Kutcher :)

Here’s the article.

 
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How I find ideas in trivial details. The guy who stares at screws.

Some folks have been interested in where I find blog ideas and ideas in general. If some of this type of thing interests you, keep your eyes open for future posts. Today I just want to share a tiny little bit about where I get ideas... Continue →