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.

Juan Orbea and

Yes, it’s OK it took me 5,127 attempts to make a bagless vacuum

James Dyson theglobeandmail.com

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It took 4.5 years and ~$1bn raised for OpenAI to launch GPT-3, which was their first PMF product. That breaks every “rule” in the startup world, around mvp and being capital light pre-pmf. Goes to show you that you have to define your own rules to get outsized success.

immad twitter.com

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Addicted to Speed - by Nat Eliason - Infinite Play Addicted to Speed

Nat Eliason blog.nateliason.com

Stuart Evans

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Climate 101 with Albert Wenger pt 2

youtube.com

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The principles of patience

Austin Kleon austinkleon.com

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All you have to do is just be 5% better than everyone else who’s really bad at it. You don’t have to get everything perfect… you just have to be a little bit better so you can survive the war of attrition.

Sean Cannon

Seth Werkheiser

Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II

Kevin Xu interconnect.substack.com

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Jeff Bezos says that if Amazon has a good quarter it’s because of work they did 3, 4, 5 years ago—not because they did a good job that quarter

SAM H INKIE 3 6 0 1 S O U T H B R O A D S T R E E T

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