# Big Desk Energy > startup insights, stories, and vibes sent to your inbox every Tuesday This file provides information about Big Desk Energy to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [Sicko mode](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/sicko-mode): The dumbest trick that works. - [Full circle](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/full-circle): Two years ago I bought Oliver Darcy breakfast. Last week I spoke at his summit. - [Unconventional thinking](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/unconventional-thinking): You don't build an A+ company with B+ talent. - [SaaSpocalypse](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/saaspocalypse): I built my own software instead of paying $100 a month. It cost me 100 hours and $300 a month. - [Proud padre](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/proud-padre): Introducing MADRE: a luxury wellness club in Medellin. - [Eating glass](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/eating-glass): The hardest part of building a company was never the building. - [Dark side of startups](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/dark-side-of-startups): Airtable sold for $1.285B and some of their employees got nothing. - [Build vs Buy](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/build-vs-buy): The two bets that built my career. - [Vulnerable](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/vulnerable): The hard part is asking what you're getting wrong. - [Forever Summer](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/forever-summer): Recapping the beehiiv Summer Release Event 2026. - [Watch us burn](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/watch-us-burn): Up next: beehiiv Summer Release Event 2026 - [Remote All Hands](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/remote-all-hands): How we run our remote company. - [Cannes 2026](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/cannes-2026): Back to the Croisette for a second time. - [Tokenmaxxing](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/tokenmaxxing): A behind-the-scenes of AI adoption at beehiiv. - [Founder Mode (pt. 2)](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/founder-mode-pt-2): Back to the basics. Back to the support queues. - [10 Lessons from $30M ARR](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/10-lessons-from-30m-arr): 10 lessons from the last 10 months of this journey. - [Summer Release Event 2026](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/summer-release-event-2026): Some people are calling it the biggest event of the year. - [Creator-first](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/creator-first): Why email wins and closed platforms lose. - [MCP Rules Everything Around Me](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/mcp-rules-everything-around-me): My top five newsletter workflows that save me hours. - [2026 Company Offsite](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/2026-company-offsite): What's up San Diego? - [4 Years](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/4-years): RIP Andrew Platkin. - [WHCD 2026 (kinda)](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/whcd-2026-kinda): Recapping beehiiv's first ever White House Correspondents' Dinner. - [I slept 8 hours](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/slept-8-hours): If only every day was a monthly wellness day. - [We almost sold](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/we-almost-sold): The numbers said one thing. I believed another. - [Back to back](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/back-to-back): Consecutive weeks with massive product launches. - [My new yacht](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/my-new-yacht): Recapping our first company trip to Austin. - [beehiiv MCP](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/beehiiv-mcp): The first newsletter platform you can run directly from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity. - [SXSW 2026](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/sxsw-2026): Recapping our first company trip to Austin. - [Monthly Investor Updates](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/monthly-investor-updates-2026): One of my top pieces of advice for any founder. - [Mastermind v5](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/mastermind-v5): Here are my top 10 takeaways from the past week. - [I slept 3 hours](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/slept-3-hours): Wake up. It's 2026. You're getting left behind in the dust. - [Welcome to London](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/welcome-to-london): We’re going international... - [Zone of genius](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/zone-of-genius): One of the most difficult parts of scaling a startup. - [Storymaxxing](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/storymaxxing): The cat is out of the bag on this trend. - [¡Viva Digital Products!](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/viva-digital-products): Recapping the latest launch from beehiiv. - [$2M MRR](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/2m-mrr): The four-year overnight success with lots of ups and downs. - [Startup revenue playbook](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/startup-revenue-playbook): 10 tactics that helped us reach our first $1M in revenue. - [2026](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/2026): It's so good to be back. - [2025 Habits ](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/2025-habits): The best investment I've made as a founder. - [Candor](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/candor): Locked in here for the winter. - [Black Friday 2025](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/black-friday-2025): The beehiiv BFCM playbook. - [Medellin](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/medellin): Locked in here for the winter. - [Chapter 4](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/chapter-4): Confirmed: still so early. - [Appropriately Hyping](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/appropriately-hyping): How we generated 10,000 RSVPs. - [Have you tried AI?](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/have-you-tried-ai): It'll fix all of your problems. - [The Series A Story](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/series-a-story): From Jessica Alba to Mexico City. - [Product Immersion](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/product-immersion): Ship or die and the introduction of cooldowns. - [Fandom](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/fandom): Stories from New York and LA. - [Winter Release Event](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/winter-release-event): Announcing our biggest news yet... - [Golden Flow](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/golden-flow): Making our new user experience golden. ## Pages - [](https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/)