Biweekly prompts, workflows, and mental models to launch your startup sooner, validate faster, and stop wasting time on ideas the market doesn’t want.

My personal Substack. Personal views only. Actually, not even personal views. I don't even know what my personal views are anymore. It doesn't matter. Read anyway!

Traction Thinking dishes out snark-powered playbooks that help first-time founders turn half-baked ideas into venture-scale traction — faster than you can say “pivot.”

By Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Exploring and practicing Stoicism & other philosophies of life.