founder's mentality

insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck

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Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz

Ben Horowitz a16z.com

Mo Shafieeha

How to Be Successful

Sam Altman blog.samaltman.com

Johanna

Billionaires Build

Paul Graham paulgraham.com

Jordan Bester

the ideas already exist the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the glory of invention

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“If you’re MSCHF, you don’t have to be so precious. There’s always more ideas, always the next project., and if you just have that commitment not to censor yourself and put things out there, it’s a more generative way of thinking.”

-Lauren Boyle, Made by MSCHF

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"I see our customers as partners in a big project, not as crops to be harvested. You can’t have a sustainable long-term relationship when you treat your customers as crops.”

-Tobi Lutke

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Those who really win (an industry, or in a career) did so by delaying gratification. One of the greatest competitive advantages in a startup team — or any bold new project or turnaround — is simply sticking together long enough to figure it out. This is hard because our natural human tendency is to crave short-term rewards and seek short-cuts to... See more

Scott Belsky • Talent Density, Feeling Special as a Service, Moving Past Prompts, and Product Leadership.

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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

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Think writing is hard? Bill Hader agrees! In this video he discusses writing with a partner, figuring out bad ideas, and sifting through feedback. To watch the full video, subscribe at the link in bio. #writersofinstagram #screenwriting #filmmaking #screenwritersofinstagram #writers... See more

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this hits hard: People will be right about what’s wrong, but wrong about how to fix it