hi i’m michael 👋

Hello friend!

I’m so happy to have you with me on my journey. Welcome! 🥂

Every Tuesday, you will get an article with actionable ideas on entrepreneurship, engineering, and life.

Here are my five most popular essays:

• Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix

• How to Be a 10x Software Engineer

• Build Your Brand, Not Your Business

• Aftermath of 2 Failed Course Launches 🤦‍♂️

• 3 Ways to Create Luck in Your Career

Finally, if we haven’t met before, feel free to say hi on social media below ⬇️

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🔥 Checkout my products and services here.

Fun facts about me:

• Ex-Netflix, Amazon Engineering for ~7 years

• I now help VC-backed startups build their MVP’s as an engineering consultant.

• Each article takes me a median of 10 hours to write.

• I work with a writing coach twice a week, who helps review each piece that I send to you.

• I learned most of my writing skills from doing 4 years of Speech and Debate in high school.

• I spend almost all of my Sundays and Mondays writing this newsletter.

• I qualified for the National Spelling Bee as an 8th grader and placed 45th (out of 275). I misspelled the word “Flicflac” in round 4.

• I’m in “Elite Smash” (top 3% online) at Smash Bro’s Ultimate, a popular video game.

• I’m also National Master in Chess, and 99.9% percentile in rating on Chess.com.

Cheers,
Michael