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
Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the
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Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles • 3 highlights
amazon.com
Ditch the term MVP and use SLC (Simple, Lovable, Complete) .
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
The trouble with exponential growth is that the curve feels flat in the beginning. It isn't; it's still a wonderful exponential curve. But we can't grasp that intuitively, so we underrate exponential growth in its early stages.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
the strategy was to do the work
The best founders I know listen to and read EVERYONE, but then they ignore everyone and make up their own mind
Joe Rogan • #1309 - Naval Ravikant
There is never a shortage of people with ideas in our world, but there are very few people who know how to successfully implement a good idea, which is more valuable than thinking about a thousand of good ideas at home.