🚨NEW: Once again, Americans filed to start new businesses like never before last year. The Census Bureau tallied nearly 1.7m applications to start new likely employer businesses in 2022 -- 28% more than before the pandemic. https://eig.org/2022-business-formation/... See more

fyi, this is my application to the OP grant. building bridges from the idealists to the skeptics is my place in this world. @Optimism is putting resources & funds in the hands of artists. applications are still open. you should apply here — https://welovetheart.optimism.io

You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product. However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their… Show more

hypothesis: 1. work feels bad (unmotivating, boring, hard) when we lack of focus 2. focus is upstream of energy, flow, fulfillment, progress, feedback loops what's upstream of focus? attention (presence) paired w/ agency (when our abilities and beliefs match our context) Show more

Q: Is it better to target a small market or a large one? In the clip below, Peter Thiel (billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir) describes his framework for evaluating markets: “It’s always a big mistake going after a giant market on day 1. That’s… Show more

1/ Why AI is not going to replace programmers: When I was in college studying Computer Science in 2005, I was told that out-sourcing to India will remove the demand for programmers. It was a real fear! AI replacing coders, I think, it’s based on a similar misconception 🧵