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June 2025

We Can’t Build the Future Without Letting Go of the Past
On moving houses, facing the unknown, and choosing to begin again.
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Yon Raz-Fridman
Your Mission Deserves a World-Class Team
Why early-stage founders can’t afford to wing it on hiring.
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Yon Raz-Fridman
The Courage to Build What’s Real
What Apple’s new paper reveals about AI, and why it’s a call to founders to go deeper, not just faster
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Yon Raz-Fridman
What Failing to Act on Conviction Taught Me About Building
Why instincts, timing, and boldness matter—and what happens when you hesitate.
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Yon Raz-Fridman

May 2025

The Next Dot: How to Know What I'm Meant to Build
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
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Yon Raz-Fridman
Unlocking the Best Version of Ourselves: Lessons from a Plum Village Retreat
This week’s letter is a little different.
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Yon Raz-Fridman
Why the Next Civilization-Scale Breakthroughs Might Be Built in the Midwest
The case for America’s heartland as the future of existential innovation
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Yon Raz-Fridman
On the Urgency to Build
The right ideas, executed with velocity, will define the next century.
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Yon Raz-Fridman
Closing a Chapter with Supersocial
Virtual worlds are here to stay as a meaningful social fabric of the internet
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Yon Raz-Fridman
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