founder's mentality
insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck
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founder's mentality
We’re good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.
Bent Flyvbjerg • How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Success is never a straight line. Walt Disney is decades into his career. An undisputed success. Yet depressed. Life is all peaks and valleys - for everyone.
Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
Everything is possible but nothing is easy
AI, Crypto, Creator, Consumer, MoSoCloudLo Silicon Valley-isms. Devoid of the anchoring of a real quest, the swarm can bring you anywhere they please.
Focus on the mission, freed from cycle and hype quests
from Nvidia CEO
“Instead of finding the product through discovery and iteration the goal is to reverse engineer the vision,” he explains. “If you take an incremental, discovery-led approach, then you might find yourself with product-market fit in a local maximum, building a company that you don’t want to lead.”
Matt Walton • Case study: Sana's vision
work from the vision backwards
find the shortest distance between thinking and creating, between thinking and a feedback loop.