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With ai you can build something and take it apart later to learn about it and improve it. New way to prototype and creativity.
as AI automates the "have to dos," we'll unlock more time for the "get to dos"
bullish on people building companies optimizing for joy, creativity, and meaningful experiences vs. just solving life's annoying tasks
How do we design a platform where users " come for the tool, stay for the community, and work for the growth "?
How can we grow the Creator Economy from the 1% to the other 99%?
Finding the right problem to solve is the hardest path in building products. Framing a problem is irreducable.
Computational irreducibility. You can speed up processes and collabs things. There is one thing you cannot simplify.
In ai it is framing the problem a llm should solve.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda • The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
building products is all about tradeoffs.
wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision.
these were the principles we came up with at sublime https://t.co/ZjnA29n1sT
when I hear people say things like “our goal is to be at 5mm ARR by 2025” I always get a little sad and uncomfortable.
I don’t have quantifiable goals like that.
and when I do, any number I choose feels arbitrary.
my goals are usually more qualitative - to create simple, delightful, sustainable products that are meaningful for the people they se... See more
Without the right tools, our minds are hopelessly leaky.
thesephist.com • Incremental note-taking
We want to make things by hand. Creativity is making things by hand.