The margin notes
Ideas — observations, free for the taking
Observations and startup ideas, written down before they're ready. Free for the taking — execution is the hard part anyway.
A decision log as a product, not a habit
Most decision-journal tools fail because they add friction at the moment of deciding. What if the log wrote itself from your calendar and messages, and just asked you to confirm the reasoning after?
Reference checks as a marketplace
Reference calls are broken — candidates pick references who love them. A blind, structured, opt-in reference network would produce far more honest signal for both sides.
Book notes that compound into an assistant
Every book I read produces notes that then sit in a folder forever. What if the notes were structured enough from day one to become a queryable assistant, not just an archive?
Hiring “trial sprints” as a category
Paid two-day trial projects work far better than interviews for evaluating early hires, but there's no good tooling for running them at scale. Feels underbuilt.