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
Founders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.
Molly Mielke • morals
a fundamental tension with being a founder
There is a difference between moving fast and rushing.
You can move fast and be thoughtful. When you rush, you sacrifice thoughtfulness.
Conversely, when you are thoughtful but not moving fast, you are overthinking it. Procrastination in disguise.
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James Cleartwitter.com
James Dyson on solving problems:
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
be different
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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“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