Michael Fan
Notes, mostly to think out loud.
· 4 min read
Everyone talks about how AI lets you delegate more. That's half the story. The real challenge is knowing what not to delegate. Once execution gets cheap, the scarce resource is decision velocity, and the job becomes protecting it.
Read →ProductivityAI
· 4 min read
I used to think productivity was about managing time. It isn't. The real constraint is cognitive energy, and not all hours are equal. Once AI makes execution cheap, the job becomes allocating your best units to the highest-return work.
Read →ProductivityAI
· 5 min read
The fix for something that finally matters isn't 300% more effort. It's a small, sustainable increase in attention. I learned this swinging between two wrong extremes: dropping my whole life for what I wanted, then pretending I didn't want it at all.
Read →ProductivityCareer
· 3 min read
Health isn't one goal you finish. It's a sequence of bottlenecks. Six months ago mine was body fat (20.6% to 16.5%, done). Now it's LDL cholesterol and fiber, where a six-pill-a-day supplement covers under 10% of the daily target.
Read →HealthProductivity
· 4 min read
61 apps, 48,100 events, $31,160 of Claude usage. The data says AI is most useful as a chief of staff, not a coach. Apps that produce artifacts win. Apps that produce advice die.
Read →AIProductivity
· 3 min read
A quote attributed to Bezos: only start companies with friends after 40. Before then, most people are still figuring themselves out, and that uncertainty creates friction. Great teams aren't built on friendship alone. They're built on clarity.
Read →EntrepreneurshipCareer
· 5 min read
Amazon FBA, crypto, influencers, AI: same story, different decade. Every generation thinks it found the shortcut. The winners learn to adapt instead.
Read →CareerAI
· 3 min read
Why my main productivity app got less important: I stopped managing tasks and started building systems that make each recurring problem disappear for good.
Read →ProductivityAI
· 2 min read
ACP (OpenAI + Stripe) standardizes checkout. UCP (Google) covers the full journey. What merchants actually do. (Seeded draft.)
Read →Agentic Commerce
· 2 min read
The priority-ordered checklist: complete attributes, valid schema, real-time price and stock, structured reviews. (Seeded draft.)
Read →Agentic CommerceDTC
· 2 min read
The honest P&L view: it compresses brand premium and adds take-rates, but cuts CAC and support cost. (Seeded draft.)
Read →Agentic CommerceDTC
· 3 min read
An operator's playbook: clean data beats a pretty storefront. (Seeded draft, GEO format example.)
Read →Agentic CommerceDTC
· 3 min read
Why the AI-native ecommerce leader is worth more than the title suggests: benchmark pay against the headcount they replace, not the title they hold. (Seeded draft, formatting example.)
Read →Agentic CommerceCareerAI
· 2 min read
How cheap code changes everything for ecommerce: the constraint moved from engineering to judgment, taste, and distribution. (Seeded draft, formatting example.)
Read →AIDTC
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