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I think this just became my favorite meme ever...
if you're thinking about working at a startup
and the person you're reporting to isn't a founder
don't waste your time
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I think this just became my favorite meme ever...
if you're thinking about working at a startup
and the person you're reporting to isn't a founder
don't waste your time
“Never had a real job” syndrome is everywhere: city bureaucracy, middle manager positions in big tech, it happens wherever there is no accountability and people just playing mimetic games disconnected from outcomes, users, customers, or citizens
This is a good interview question.
Excellence is the capacity to take pain:
I built an AI that watches your screen and yells at you if you try to procrastinate!
ProctorAI feels like a living coworker looking over your shoulder, making it far more effective than traditional site blockers and leading to large gains in productivity
Github and thread👇1/N
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
One of the best parts of entrepreneurship is you get to pick the problem you solve, the customer you serve, the people you work with, everything. So focus on what you enjoy because you’ll do your best work.
Neighborhoods of Manhattan
The 5 Most Famous Laws In The World
“Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.”
— Brian Armstrong
Sharpening a knife for the best cut
[📹 ryota_togishi]
Saas founders getting their companies started
New trailer for the 4K restoration of THE TIME MASTERS. In theaters 7/26!
“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”
— Aristotle
Current experiment:
Using Claude artifacts to make mini throwaway ephemeral apps, instead of taking notes, making a quick todo list, or writing stuff down
In 1800, William Herschel discovered infrared radiation by passing sunlight through a prism and measuring the temperature just beyond the visible red spectrum. This discovery revealed that there are types of light invisible to the human eye.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
And then some other capitalist will offer to pay you more
"Write to learn, not to teach."
I wish there was a try-catch where the catch has two arguments: error and ai.
And then we just throw the error to the AI and it figures out what to do next lol
The dream esp for webscraping where you get one trillion dumb edge cases 😵💫
thinking more about ephemeral mini software. if ai can make making mini apps viable, the easiest way is probably to start turning my notes into apps
Make a brand new todo app for every day's todos, or this month's workout routine. I wonder what else?
Sharing mine, this is converting at 70.8% email-to-meeting:
In memory Johnny Thunders
July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
October 19, 1973
#punkrockhistory
Uhhhh - I've raised most of my $1.7+ billion from cold emails for my companies
I've tracked performance of cold emails vs referrals, and cold emails consistently outperform by a long-shot for a few reasons:
1/ Outbound cold email scales several orders of magnitude better than referrals - you can find 99.9% of anybody’s email
Raising capital is a shots-on-goal game; you want to maximize top of funnel pitches
Optimizing your fundraising for referrals will put you on a local maximum
2/ It’s a challenge finding somebody who will stick their neck out referring you. People rarely want to use their political capital referring you to a highly important person in their network, therefore at best you’re left with lousy double opt-in email
In the same period of time you can get 1 referral, I can set up 50 investor pitches