founder's mentality

AI, Crypto, Creator, Consumer, MoSoCloudLo Silicon Valley-isms. Devoid of the anchoring of a real quest, the swarm can bring you anywhere they please.

Jesper tells a story about how he is currently working on designing a new type of organ. In preparation for this, he’s been playing an organ he bought, it in house… for the past 5 years.

Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”

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Billy Oppenheimer on small steps to get to big leaps:

One of Hugh Howey’s other hobbies is sailing. Once he had the luxury of writing full-time, he sailed around the world. “You can’t get to where you want to be in one day,” he says, “just like you don’t sail around the world in a day. You just look at the horizon and say, ‘I can sail that far.

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Instead of waiting for something to go wrong and then conducting a post-mortem, conduct a “pre-mortem” by imagining it went wrong then using the power of hindsight to deduce the likeliest reason it went wrong.