when creating vector, i thought of...
Creating is an indulgence in itself, and I feel immense privilege that I can create
Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?
Ideas start out small, weak and fragile.
In order to grow, ideas need financial capital.
But they also need emotional capital — good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and... See more
Ideas start out small, weak and fragile.
In order to grow, ideas need financial capital.
But they also need emotional capital — good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and... See more
The best thing is being able to make a living doing work that indulges your curiosities with people you legitimately like being with, what a rare thing indeed.
Strands of Genius: Activating Musical Neural Pathways, Getting Lost In Screenshots, Digital Twinning
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is more
... See morethere’s a certain intractable uneasiness we all feel about being alive, and that flits between feelings of loneliness and feelings over being totally overwhelmed and feeling nothing and feeling scared and none of those things present in the same way each individual time we feel them, and the great trick friend.com and its ilk is attempting to do... See more
Can you be my friend.com
perhaps, for vector, we aren’t selling solutions, but making a statement.
On a broader cultural level, not all briefs require solutions, but instead statements? maybe?
It's not enough just to do something extraordinary initially. You have to make an extraordinary effort initially. Any strategy that omits the effort — whether it's expecting a big launch to get you users, or a big partner — is ipso facto suspect.
Paul Graham • Do Things that Don't Scale
Have fun — There’s a version of this work that’s hyper-analytical where we try to Moneyball our way to success. There’s another version where we’re living it, enjoying it, and having fun with it. Our best work comes when we’re having fun and enjoying what we’re doing, not when we’re overly analytical. Analytical thinking creates fear and... See more