Entrepreneurship

i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen https://t.co/mz5auDBkKl

“I don’t know anything about business,” Ive demurs, but he abhors the current fascination with disruption. “I’m not interested in breaking things,” he says. “We have made a virtue out of destroying everything of value,” he says. “It’s associated with being successful and selling a company for money. But it’s too easy—in three weeks we could break... See more

When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more

It’s about the same trap in professional life: doing the thing for years, getting more experienced, and staying stuck at the same level. You can work hard for a very long time without getting better—not because you’re lazy or untalented, but because you’re confusing practice with deliberate practice.

So who survives?

First, creators who publish citable work . Newsletter writers who go deep on one thing. Analysts who publish original data. Technical writers who explain complex topics in a way that can be pulled apart and quoted. Agents like them because they produce high-signal content, and humans trust them because when an agent says “Carly... See more