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
After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile
Gormtwitter.comWe were driven by creativity and we were unprofessional.– Skoging
Laborious solutions will often have more prestige in the short term. They cost a lot of effort and they're hard to understand, both of which impress people, at least temporarily.
Whereas some of the very best work will seem like it took comparatively little effort, because it was in a sense already there. It didn't have to be built, just seen. It's... See more
Whereas some of the very best work will seem like it took comparatively little effort, because it was in a sense already there. It didn't have to be built, just seen. It's... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
14 more ideas from Buffett and Munger I don’t want to forget:
1. The one thing that has surprised me all my life is how many people with high IQs do massively stupid things.
2. Berkshire was a small business at one time. It just takes time. It is the nature of compound interest. You can't... See more
Being a founder requires constant calibration between arrogance and humility, optimism and pessimism. You need the arrogance to believe that you have something important to say, but the humility to know most people won’t care. You need the optimism to convince yourself and others (employees, investors, customers) to believe in you. But you need... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.
