Britt Gage
@brittfgage
Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.
Britt Gage
weofalltrades.com
A better use of some of that capital is continued experimentation.
In a world with an emerging new class of startups, the Silicon Valley Small Business, thinking of investment capital specifically as a means to learn more about your users faster through experimentation is worth considering.
The more you learn, the more you’ll be able to iterate to ... See more
In a world with an emerging new class of startups, the Silicon Valley Small Business, thinking of investment capital specifically as a means to learn more about your users faster through experimentation is worth considering.
The more you learn, the more you’ll be able to iterate to ... See more
How Gamma Acquired 10 Million Users in 9 Months
The most valuable thing to pursue is also the hardest
Superhuman
The archives of human cleverness are filled with blunders. When read in a good mood, history is a blooper reel. But it should not be lost on us that history never repeats, and modern technology enables ever more leverage. The more technology you can harness to commit an idea, and the faster your idea can spread, the greater the magnitude of somethi... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
THE TRUTH MUST DAZZLE GRADUALLY
OR EVERY MAN BE BLIND
— Emily Dickinson
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of [lightning] to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
— Chuck Close, artist
— Chuck Close, artist
Superhuman
Think about distribution from day one
If you’re going to build a product, you want people to use it. But far too often, founders get drawn to the building and tinkering side of the business, forgoing the go-to-market piece until they’re actually ready to get out and sell.
That’s a mistake, says Foster. “I think one of the biggest things that founder... See more
If you’re going to build a product, you want people to use it. But far too often, founders get drawn to the building and tinkering side of the business, forgoing the go-to-market piece until they’re actually ready to get out and sell.
That’s a mistake, says Foster. “I think one of the biggest things that founder... See more
The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier
as humans, we tend to do whatever it takes and to use any justification to keep busy, even if the task is meaningless. In the words of the scientists behind the study: “Our research suggests that many purported goals that people pursue may be merely justifications to keep themselves busy.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Illusion of Productivity: Why We Are Addicted to Busyness
Optimistic really ought to be a verb
It's something you *do*, not some property you happen to possess. Sometimes it's easy to do, and sometimes it's darned hard, requiring imagination & determination
Everyone wants to learn the latest behavioral economics trick, psychological insight, or lesson from science or philosophy that can help them make decisions.
The problem is: we can’t remember to apply them. We make lists in Notion of our principles and use Anki to note down mental models. But they end up being mostly abandoned.
ChatGPT changes this. ... See more
The problem is: we can’t remember to apply them. We make lists in Notion of our principles and use Anki to note down mental models. But they end up being mostly abandoned.
ChatGPT changes this. ... See more