Andrew Tam

obvious now that the inevitable result of every public timeline being taken over by ai slop will be a return to highly personal, small networks of highly curated content algorithmic timelines are over now, our bodies are growing immune to them. it’s all “elite media”

a lot of people asking me how: the world wants you to believe you are not good enough. that you cant be delusional about your craft. that if you're too proud of yourself then you're too arrogant or riding your own d*** (cont.)

One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe... See more

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.