If you keep working on your strengths, you become unique.
If you keep working on your weaknesses, you become average.
Work with your strengths, delegate your weaknesses.
-Kunal
Often we fail to improve our lives simply because things don't get bad enough. If your new job is hell, you’ll leave it, but if it’s just unsatisfying, you’ll likely grind it out. Thus, small problems often threaten our quality of life more than big ones.
One of my favorite examples of TAM’s irrelevance is Etsy. Early on, our peers were thinking, “How big could arts and crafts possibly be? I go to farmers markets, and maybe two or three people are polishing wooden bowls or selling earrings they’ve made in their free time. How many of those folks are there, and how many will actually use something... See more
Danny Rimer’s most contrarian, high-conviction opinion
Only losers go to networking events
The only people you'll meet at events are people who want something from you or aren't meaningfully engaged in a pursuit of their own
The easiest way to meet interesting people is by having accomplished something yourself
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.