Archive - Matt Hackett's Notes

January 2025

How to Find Ideas Worth Building

Out: Pivot until exponential growth — In: Build the future humanity needs.

Jan 24 •

February 2021

My loss and yours

I’m mourning a particular and overwhelming loss. Just after I hit send on my last newsletter, I got a strange call from a friend of my mom’s. I knew…

Feb 18, 2021 •

January 2021

How did my plague year go?

I resisted reviewing my accomplishments and pitfalls in 2020. But when I finally did it, I was shocked at how much good had happened and how much I've…

Jan 8, 2021 •

October 2019

wild collaboration

Oh hey, I’m Matt, and I send these so irregularly you may have forgotten who I am or what this is.

Oct 28, 2019 •

April 2019

Travel and pre-startup anxiety

Apr 3, 2019 •

November 2018

I’m fresh off a variety of travels, from the dunes of Oregon (yes, the coast of my home state has magnificent dunes dotted with pine trees) to…

Nov 26, 2018 •

June 2018

Space APIs, $$$ and messy process

The year so far has resulted in two themes: software-defined places, and investing.

Jun 26, 2018 •

May 2018

Swimming in lightbulbs

2018 is a blank check of time I’ve been gifted by the gods, a gift I don’t want to squander.

May 18, 2018 •

March 2018

Unsolicited advice

As I write this, I’m brushing the side of Douala as we take to the South Atlantic (Ed.: I failed to format and send this until now, about five days…

Mar 16, 2018 •

February 2018

A new chapter opens

It’s now been a couple of weeks since I was neither fired from nor quit but definitely left Beme, my startup.

Feb 15, 2018 •

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