Dominik Nitsch | Generalist & Multipreneur
Entrepreneur, Lacrosse Athlete, Writer & Productivity Nerd. Frameworks & strategies for those who don't want to specialize. Join hundreds of generalists and unlock your full potential. 🔓
How to Hire Generalist Talent 101 [#115]
How to Hire Generalist Talent 101 [#115] Hiring specialists is easy. But finding the right generalist for your startup? This is how you do it. You can also read this in your browser. Hey there! Even if you're a jobseeker, this one might be interesting for you - you'll get an inside look at the logic of hiring managers. Today, we’re taking a look at the startup side of things: how to actually hire a generalist, what to look out for, and how to run the process. Let’s dive in. 🤿 A few years ago,...
Don't build a life where the reward is 5 years away [#113]
Don't build a life where the reward is 5 years away [#113] What if you died tomorrow? You can also read this in your browser. Founders and athletes share a dangerous superpower: the ability to delay gratification for years. We all work hard for some distant goal in the future: achieving a breakthrough innovation, having a life-changing exit, competing in a major international tournament, maybe even in the Olympics. And we make a lot of sacrifices on the way. Gratification exists on a...
How to 10X your chances of getting a job interview [#111]
How to 10X your chances of getting a job interview [#111] Six steps to beating out the other few hundred applicants to the generalist position of your dreams. You can also read this in your browser. One question that pops up a lot recently is: how do you find a job as a generalist? Today, I want to explore what I’d do if I was currently on the job hunt - based on my experience running a recruiting business for generalist positions in early-stage startups. Let’s dive in. 🤿 The biggest...
How I took agency over injury rehab & personal training [#109]
How I took agency over injury rehab & personal training [#109] The public health system isn't made for athletes. Here's how you make your own rehab + training system. You can also read this in your browser. The beauty of building a generalist career is that you get to do a broad variety of things. The beauty of writing a newsletter about building a generalist career is that you get to write about a broad variety of things. Today won’t be about interviewing, hiring, bootstrapping, generalist...
Prediction markets are smart – and that's a problem [#107]
The Dark Side of Prediction Markets (& why they feel so compelling right now) [#107] When the only place for young people to find agency is a casino, we have a problem. You can also read this in your browser. Hey there! My initial plan for today was to write another edition of Generalist’s Paradise (my short-form format), but once I started out writing my thoughts, I realized they’ll turn into a long-form newsletter. Hope you enjoy. “How many beans are in this jar?”, we asked every year at...
Why the best founders are never in a hurry [#106]
Why the best founders are never in a hurry Go from frazzled → collected using this 4-step frameworks (with inspiration from elite athletes). You can also read this in your browser. In my day-to-day work, I speak to a lot of founders – old and young, with varying degrees of experience and background. I think it’s possible to cluster them into 2 groups: the frazzled ones and the collected ones. One of my discovery calls last week exemplified the “frazzled” archetype perfectly: we had set a...
2025 Content Review | Facts, Figures, & Outlook for 2026
2025 Content Review | Facts, Figures, & Outlook for 2026 Full breakdown of one year of writing 50+ newsletters and 183 LinkedIn Posts. Read this if writing online is on your list for 2026. You can also read this in your browser. Every year, I review the stats from my journey as a creator (so that Chenell Basilio from Growth in Reverse has plenty to work with in a few years). Here’s the breakdown for 2025: [1] Stats [1a] Newsletter Dec 22nd, 2024: 511 Dec 30th, 2025: 1,092 Nice, steady growth....
How to develop skills & achieve your goals in 2026 [#102]
How to develop skills & achieve your goals in 2026 [#102] One of the biggest downsides of being a generalist: not being able to measure your improvement. The answer: a six-step framework & the Harada Method. You can also read this in your browser. It’s been a wild year. Yet at the same time, it felt like working on more or less the same things most of the time. Which left me wondering: what did I actually learn this year? What skills am I developing? Like, I’m selling, but I don’t feel I’m...
My Portfolio Career Architecture [#100 !!]
My Portfolio Career Architecture [#100] 100+ newsletter editions in, it's time for a review: how it started, how it's going, and how it's going to go. Read this if you also want to have a portfolio career. You can also read this in your browser. Welcome to newsletter #100! What started out as a simple accountability mechanism for writing, now has turned into the centerpiece for my very own portfolio career. A lot of you here are curious how to build one too, I suppose. So today, I wanted to...
How to find out what you're meant to do [#98]
How to find out what you're meant to do Take two long, hard looks: one backward, one forward. You can also read this in your browser. A lot of the generalists I speak to struggle with the same question: how do you find what you’re meant to do? It’s a complex question with a simple answer: You take two long, hard looks. Backward, and forward. Let’s dive in: [1] Take a look back I believe our childhood and teenage years are quite revealing to what we’re meant to do. Looking back, the fact that...
Entrepreneur, Lacrosse Athlete, Writer & Productivity Nerd. Frameworks & strategies for those who don't want to specialize. Join hundreds of generalists and unlock your full potential. 🔓