Archive
Writing by Victor Macias
Founder stories, startup playbooks, interviews and notes on habits, newest first. New here? Start with what happened to Nui Foods or the Kickstarter playbook, or see my picks.
- Reflections from Beyond Barriers 2024: Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in New Delhi, India
- How to Rewire Your Brain: My Journey From OCD to Mental Freedom
- The Road to Rapid Learning: How Scaling Transforms Your Marketing Strategy
- To-Do Lists Suck: Here's Why a Someday/Maybe List is Better
- Ideal Daily Schedule: How to Plan Your Perfect Day
- Startup Notes: Survey Results Are In
- The 3-3-3 Method for Time Management and Productivity
- Day Theming: How Dorsey and Musk Theme Their Days
- Overcome Procrastination: The 2-Minute Technique for Building Momentum
- The Power of When Quiz: Find Your Chronotype
- From Strengths to Superpowers: Unleash Your Full Potential Through Daily Practice
- Don't fix your weaknesses, create guardrails instead
- Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast: Meaning and How to Use It
- Startup Notes: Starting Over After Nui
- Life Without Goals: Why I Live a Goalless Life
- Understand your weaknesses and fill the gaps with technology and/or people
- Self-Love Experiment: My 45-Day Mirror Challenge
- Self-love is critical for long-term success
- Build new habits by doing what's easy
- Track inputs to increase your odds of success
- Do more quality work with the Unschedule
- Make your habits so easy that it's laughable if you don't complete them
- What if resistance is life showing you what to subtract?
- 'Easy' is Life Showing You What to Add
- The Power of Saying YES: How Juggling Multiple Projects Unlocks Your Productivity
- How to Find a Winning Startup Idea: The OSP Method
- How to Get Your First 100 Customers With a $0 Budget: Five Ways
- Crowdfunding for Startups: How We Raised $100,682 on Kickstarter (With Templates and Tools)
- Troy Polamalu Interview: Confidence, Respect, and Humility
- Nely Galán Interview: The Tropical Tycoon on Her Path to Success
- Startup Business Loan With No Money: What Works Instead
- Landon Donovan Interview: Meditation, Self-Doubt, and Ego
- 12 Best Books for Starting a Business, Picked by a Founder
- Michael B. Jordan Interview: Rejection, Confidence, and Legacy
- What Must an Entrepreneur Assume When Starting a Business? Three Hard Truths
- How to make steady progress toward your goals
- Daily Notes: Streamlining Inbox Management and Chat GPT Experiments
- What Happened to Nui Foods? The Nui Cookies Shark Tank Story, Told by a Co-Founder
- Guilt-Free Play Fuels Quality Work
- Make It a Treat
- Buy Experiences, Not Things
- Document what you do
- Show your process
- Diversify your self-esteem
- Coronavirus: What if Social Distancing Was The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened To You?
- How To Focus When You Have Too Many Ideas
- Pre-Selling for Startups: How to Test Your Idea Before You Spend Money
- How To Break Through Fear and Finally Reach Your Dreams
- How To Build The Variety Habit