Andrew Tam

@QiaochuYuan A good friend once said to me, “I don’t know, I just feel like everything in my life isn’t how it ought to be.” I asked her, “well, have you tried changing everything?” In all seriousness, changing ourselves is very difficult and slow. Changing our environment is easier.

when people build anything, they want want to be unique so they default to reinventing the wheel for everything for no reason. the best founders & product people don’t do this—they change one variable. they solve one hard problem. that’s it. for everything else use existing