long-term thinking
musings on long-term thinking in a shortsighted world. we overestimate what we can do in a year, underestimate what we can do in 10 kinda thing.
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long-term thinking
the biggest surprise is that the most enduring companies are not mega companies. most of them have under 300 employees.
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World of Statisticsx.comI'm posting here three products that are doing very well. One is Google Earth - I often use it to learn geography. This product is great but not profitable. Scratch -- programming for children. I don’t know whether it makes money or not, but it’s also really great. Roblox, a kind of UGC sandbox game, which is very different from games that we
... See moreZhang Yiming • Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II
Everything takes longer than you think.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough--the problem is your expectations were never realistic to begin with.
it is important to have projects on the scale of an entire life rather than months or years
