Andrew Tam

My most hippy belief I think is true is that changing your vocabulary changes how you perceive reality. You're just prompt engineering your brain all day. Try shuffling out these 5 words: 1. Decision --> Experiment 2. Problem --> Puzzle 3. Relax --> Energise 4. Failure -->

best way to get hired: tweet side projects related to where you want to work want to join a design tool company? design a mini one. want to build agents? make a small one and tweet it. people will share your work in slack and need zero imagination to picture you at the company

the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking about outcomes they don’t want. you might as well joke about the outcomes you do want

This is an important point. A lot of the most successful people, not just in startups but in many fields, do what they do because there's something they want to exist, or some mystery they want solved, and no one else is working on it.

Do not touch LinkedIn Apply. For inbound, work on projects w others and post about them. Skip HR, go straight to execs/employees. For outbound, spend 1-2 days working on a demo, or reuse prev projects related to the product/role. Do this for several months for a few places