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The average worker is interrupted every 11 minutes. We switch tasks more than 300 times a day. Spend 1/3 of the day reco...
13/10/2026

The average worker is interrupted every 11 minutes. We switch tasks more than 300 times a day. Spend 1/3 of the day recovering from distractions.

92% of people never actually achieve their goals. We spend too much time being in motion, instead of taking action.

Learn to protect your time. Create systems to prevent distractions before they happen. Schedule time for email, social media and check them in batches.

Exercise: Close your email client and messaging apps completely. Set two dedicated 30-minute blocks on your calendar. One at 11:00h and one at 16;00h to process, reply to and clear all communications in bulk (Inspired by "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss).

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09/10/2026

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08/10/2026

When you step out of the lab to launch a spin-off, you are entering a market full of established players with more capital, more leverage and far more experience than you.

That is why every academic founder needs to watch "Peaky Blinders".

Strip away the period drama and the story is a masterclass in strategic leverage and executive poise.

He does not win by having the biggest team or the deepest pockets. He wins because he stays completely calm under extreme pressure, plans three moves ahead and never enters a negotiation without knowing his exact edge.

If you want to learn how to hold your ground in investor boardrooms and project quiet authority when you are the underdog, watch how Tommy commands a room.

Exercise: When hit with a hostile or skeptical question from an investor or enterprise buyer, pause for five seconds while maintaining calm eye contact before uttering your first word (Inspired by "Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss).

What you do matters more than anything else. It really does not matter how much you work. It matters what you are doing ...
06/10/2026

What you do matters more than anything else. It really does not matter how much you work. It matters what you are doing when you work. You can work 100 hours a week, but if you are doing the wrong things, it will not matter.

The most productive thing you can do is say "No". Time is the currency of productivity. Every time you say no to something, you gain back time. The only way to focus on the things that matter is to say "No" to the things that do not.

The best deal is spending money to buy time. Any time you can spend money to buy time, do it. Money is infinite. Time is finite. Take the trade every time. Delegate to people, software and the word "No".

Energy management is key. Your first hour of the day and your last are not the same. Align your best energy with your top priorities. Rest as hard as you work. Great work depends on great rest.

Exercise: Identify three incoming requests this week. Such as a low-value academic committee meeting, an unstructured coffee chat or a distraction grant. Decline them immediately using a polite, firm refusal. Treat time as your rarest currency (Inspired by "Doing What Matters: The Power of Purposeful Productivity").

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You can spend 80% of your week tinkering with slide colors, answering low-priority emails and and still end the week hav...
01/10/2026

You can spend 80% of your week tinkering with slide colors, answering low-priority emails and and still end the week having achieved zero commercial progress.

Real progress comes from the 20% of tasks that feel uncomfortable. Making cold sales calls, asking hard questions about cash runway or confronting technical roadblocks head-on.

Busyness is not momentum.

Exercise: Identify the single most uncomfortable task on your schedule today. Cold-calling a potential pilot client or confronting a co-founder about equity. Complete it during your first hour of work before opening email, LinkedIn and WhatsApps (Inspired by "Eat That Frog" by Brian Tracy).

I have seen founders spend 40 minutes walking through beautiful slides, explaining how their algorithm will change the w...
29/09/2026

I have seen founders spend 40 minutes walking through beautiful slides, explaining how their algorithm will change the world.

Then the investor asks: "Can we see it work?" and the founder freezes.

A messy, 30-second live demo that works speaks louder than 50 polished slides of theory.

Stop hiding behind your deck. Show the raw proof, let it break, fix it and show it again. Action builds trust. Slides build doubt.

Exercise: Record a single 30-second unedited video showing your core software feature or hardware mechanism in its rawest working state and send it to three prospective advisors without any explanatory text (Inspired by "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon).

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Every second you spend comparing your life to someone else's is a second spent wasting yours. So stop comparing and crea...
24/09/2026

Every second you spend comparing your life to someone else's is a second spent wasting yours. So stop comparing and create your own definition of success instead.

You see a 23-year-old software founder announce 1M€ in revenue after six months and suddenly your three-year deep-tech development cycle feels like a failure.

But comparing hard science to software is absurd. Biology, advanced materials and hardware have physical constraints. Software just has code.

When you compare your timeline to someone else's easy road, you rob yourself of the patience required to build something genuinely revolutionary.

Define success by your technology's physical breakthroughs, not someone else's software sprint.

Exercise: Take three pieces of popular startup advice (like "ship an MVP in two weeks" or "fail fast") and write down why laws of physics or regulatory compliance make them dangerous for your deep-tech startup (Inspired by "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz).

In academia, team size is a status symbol. A bigger lab with more postdocs and PhD students means a larger grant and mor...
22/09/2026

In academia, team size is a status symbol. A bigger lab with more postdocs and PhD students means a larger grant and more institutional prestige.

So when researchers launch a spin-off, their first instinct after funding is to start hiring full-time staff.

It feels like real growth, but it is often just ego. Every full-time salary is a permanent obligation that eats away at your cash regardless of whether you hit product-market fit.

Stop measuring your startup's success by headcount and start measuring it by capital efficiency.

Exercise: Calculate your monthly financial burn if you fill your planned full-time roles. Now recalculate that same burn rate using specialized contractors for those same milestones. Write down the difference in total months of survival runway gained on a whiteboard (Inspired by "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries).

17/09/2026

When scientists start companies, the default instinct is almost always to add. More features to the product, more slides to the pitch deck, more steps to the business plan. We are trained to add detail to prove our rigor.

In "Subtract", Leidy Klotz reveals a fundamental human bias. Whenever we try to make something better, our brains naturally default to adding, even when subtracting works far better.

Real commercial momentum happens when you strip away the non-essentials.

It is cutting features so you can ship a working prototype this week. It is dropping technical jargon so investors instantly understand your value.

If your startup feels cluttered or stuck, pick up "Subtract". Adding creates complexity. Subtracting creates progress.

Exercise: Open your pitch deck right now and force yourself to delete half the slides. If you have 20 slides, cut it down to 10. If you have 10, cut it to 5. You speak to the core commercial value.

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