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About a year ago, @blader came to @fdotinc and explained the secret to get a "hell yes" from investors instead of a no. You need to engineer an emotional experience. Make investors feel these emotions in this order: amusement -> curiosity -> surprise -> awe -> greed

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“Trying” doesn’t unlock whatever the mechanism is. The game is won or lost on 1st step. If ur “trying” ur just not ready for whatever reason. But maybe in future u will be

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“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

Aneesh Raman • Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever

writing one prompt knowing which prompt to write https://t.co/1PZqdcBjLL

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Deciding on one strategy

Knowing which strategy to execute

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”

- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

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probably the most important essay you need to read as a designer, creator, founder for the upcoming era “in a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. in a world of abundance, we treasure taste.” https://t.co/vKcr1zqKtT

abhinav

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As the barrier to code reduces, taste will be the greater differentiator

Ideas, not technology or invention, are what change the future most, and that is what you should be betting on. Parsley has great tech, but it is the shifting cultural convention that will change their future, and every day they are speeding that change along.

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Aneesh Raman • Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever

Jasmine Bina • There Is No Brand Strategy Without a Prediction