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Weekly links. Occasional blog posts.
Two streams. Blog posts are longer notes from inside founder conversations. Mike & Ned's Links goes out every week — the most interesting things we read, watched, or argued about.
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Longer notes.
Frameworks and observations from inside founder conversations. Published when there's something worth saying.
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Get your Why’s and What’s in the right order
Before people care about your solution, they need to care about the problem.
The Product Meeting Your Company Needs to Have
How to keep Product, Sales and Customer Success on the same page.
The One-Pager Every CEO Should Have
This simple framework creates understanding for how your company actually works.
Bad Teams Celebrate Activity / Good Teams Move Metrics
Your roadmap isn’t your product. Here’s the biggest difference between busy teams and effective teams.
The Peter Thiel Question Every Founder Needs to Answer
Why this one question is the most important question for you to answer.
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Mike & Ned's Links.
A weekly link letter from two former operators. Tools, essays, founder lessons, things we're chewing on.
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Aug 31, 2026
This week → Dolly Parton: ‘Find out who you are and do it on purpose’, The AI Unbundling, How Much Should Founders Get Paid?, You are not a model. Don’t price per token
Aug 24, 2026
This week → The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now, Cursor + SpaceXAI: the fastest iterating team wins, The Revenue Per Employee Metric, Your Business Grows to the Edge of What You’re Willing to Learn
Aug 4, 2026
This week → Throughout the week we discover interesting links about self-improvement and building and operating startups.
Jul 23, 2026
This week → How to BEAT the new LinkedIn algorithm in 10 steps, Jensen Huang on the job of the CEO, Marc Andreesen: 17 takeaways from his 3 hour interview, You Finally Closed Your Funding Round — Time to Panic?
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