Matthew Finlayson
07[Colophon]

About

Who I am, what I care about, and how this site works.

Based in
Vancouver, BC

I'm Matthew, a builder working at the intersection of software, marketing, and sports. I like problems where distribution and product are the same problem, and where a small team with good systems can outpace a much larger one.

Most of my work is some version of the same loop: find a market that's mispriced, build something genuinely useful for it, and wire up the systems that let it compound. I care more about durable leverage than about launches.

This site is my public operating system: a living archive of what I'm building, learning, reading, and thinking about. It's organized like documentation because that's how I actually think: in indexes, notes, and revisable entries rather than a highlight reel.


[Operating principles]
  1. 01Systems over heroics: boring things done consistently win.
  2. 02Write it down. A note is a cheap experiment in thinking.
  3. 03Build for leverage, not applause.
  4. 04Taste is compressed experience; shorten the loop.
  5. 05Useful beats clever, almost always.