find new patterns to be new
but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason
One of the most important skills to learn as a founder is how to use Mixpanel—especially with a very small sample size. This is not something you can delegate because only you will be obsessed enough to make sure your insights are valid.
Almost everyday I see founders get deluded into thinking:
A. They have an onboarding problem—that was actually... See more
Interstellar made a lot of money to the profit selling wheat for the film. They built a wheat farm instead of cgi and it was a better investment than hiring a cgi studio.
I don’t what to do? How should I choose on what to do next?
Follow your innate curiosity. Paul Graham → Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies and knows what’s worth paying attention to.
Related to isabel mind min talking about your heart and your brain that your heart will take in you direction your logical brain can’t
And similar to leland maschemeyer of and diagram of returning to the center. Follow the thread and bring it back to the center
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." – Nick Sleep quoting William James
when re-designing a feature, one approach is to take what you have, and imagine small changes that will solve the problems with the feature. Instead, it’s often instructive to imagine that you were working from a clean slate and design the feature from scratch. In either case, the right approach is almost always to re-use the existing codebase in y... See more
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Peter Thiel advice to Joe Lonsdale
“You need to do to the work to trust your own judgement”
Inspired by something david senra said about nick sleep in episode 365
Ergodicity. There is no ideal path because it comes out of millions.
- Ole Peters
if you want to expand what the computer can do today
you might have to take away the main things people use it for today