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Founders are allowed to play jazz because they have the legitimacy of being the creator.
Managers usually can’t play jazz because once they deviate from the scales or do something that breaks convention, they are fired.
Downside management vs taking risk to become legendary
Closed August with nearly $17K.
While I spent 0 effort on marketing.
Here’s the August breakdown:
September's modest goal: $20K.
He’s not wrong
A sense of urgency is a simple, but massive superpower
more tweets = more followers
source: I analyzed the "followers per tweet" ratio for my friend group, and there's a 0.94 correlation
How to Code a Full-stack app easily with v0.dev and @cursor_ai
1.) head over to @mckaywrigley github repo
github.com/mckaywrigley/m…
2.) set up project and ask cursor to spit out project Tree
3.) feed project tree to v0 new chat feature
4.) now use v0 to add files and create basic app functionality by following along with steps to add components and pages (all done for you by v0)
5.) use cursor to make changes to ui to match v0 dev
6.) once ui is finalized you finish with adding database and any api functionality to the app
Blue ink
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#midjourney
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
"Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status." @sivers
founder mode vs. manager mode
This video will change your life:
The single most productive thing I've ever done:
Giving up on creating the perfect productivity system.
These will always crumble if you're actually building & moving quickly—because that process is messy.
Embrace the chaos.
Nikita Bier tells the story of 15 failed app pivots before selling TBH to Facebook for $30 million
As a senior in college, Nikita built a tool to communicate the financial impacts of policy proposals of presidents. It went viral, hit 4 million users, and bunch of governments reached out asking Nikita to build this tool for their budgets. But after turning this project into a company and raising venture capital, Nikita soon realized he didn’t like selling software to governments:
“My core competency all along was making things that go viral on the internet. So we went to our investors and said this isn’t actually what we’re excited about doing anymore. We offered to give the money back and said we’re going to be building consumer apps and here’s a few ideas that we have. None of them took the money back, and so we then spent the next 4-5 years building a variety of different consumer apps.”
They launched every type of app you could imagine: mapping apps, chat apps, meetup apps. None of them worked but the team got really good at building and testing mobile apps. Their first mobile app took them about a year to build, but their last one took them only two weeks. This taught Nikita a crucial lesson:
“The most important thing that I often instruct teams to do is develop a reproducible testing process. That will actually influence the probability of your success more than anything. It’s so unpredictable whether a consumer product idea will work. And so if you actually focus more on your process for taking many shots at bat, that’s what actually reduces the risk more than anything.”
After five years of failure, the team found themselves on app #15, tired and low on money. A key team member but in his two week’s notice, and Nikita actually reached out to their lawyer asking how to dissolve a company.
But app #15 - a polling app called TBH - immediately took off, and in a matter of days, it was the #1 app in the United States. Nikita quickly put together a funding round to cover their skyrocketing server costs and ultimately sold the company to Facebook for $30 million.
Video Source: @lennysan
Morniiiing🎈
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You could buy 2.6 million clicks on adwords for $10 million
...or just focus on SEO, blog posts, free tools etc
This is probably how the first fast food restaurant was received by the public
B2C is playing startups on nightmare mode
Founder mode
15,000 requests/second! That's what I just got out of that $220/month EPYC 48-core hobby box from Hetzner running a basic Rails 8 scaffold MessagesController#show loading a single record from the DB with no caching of any kind. Hot diggity!
Interesting large “Super Prompt”
Allows LLMs (particularly Claude) to come up with novel ideas.
Need to experiment with this more.
two signs of intelligence:
1. getting what you want
2. figuring out what you want
The prompt used in the paper 'People Cannot Distinguish GPT-4 from a Human in a Turing Test' is quite revealing about humans.
tldr: "Be dumb"