Tight Aggressive Entrepreneurship - Play Permissionless

Many founders tend to fall at one of two extremes: they overanalyze and never ship anything, or they ship tons of random crap. The first is more common, the second is better. At least you’re shooting on goal. But both approaches are far from optimal. In poker, most world class players play a style known as “tight aggressive”. They are tight about entering pots, but play aggressive when they do. That seems like a great strategy for entrepreneurship too. Carefully choose what you work on, but once you do, pursure the project with intensity. The issue with the “just ship it” approach is that you waste a ton of energy on stuff that has a near zero percent chance of turning into something meaningful. Not every brainfart deserves to see the light of day. You also don’t pursure your bets with intensity if you’re betting on everything all the time. But there is a risk once you start weighing your bets instead of just focus on shipping. You might get stuck in analysis paralysis. It’s a fine lin

Many founders tend to fall at one of two extremes: they overanalyze and never ship anything, or they ship tons of random crap. The first is more common, the second is better. At least you’re shooting on goal. But both approaches are far from optimal. In poker, most world class players play a style known as “tight aggressive”. They are tight about entering pots, but play aggressive when they do. That seems like a great strategy for entrepreneurship too. Carefully choose what you work on, but once you do, pursure the project with intensity. The issue with the “just ship it” approach is that you