Josh

The less time you spend thinking about or reading about or reacting to or writing about what anyone else is doing, the more time and positive energy you have to make your product the absolute best.

Which is how you will win.

"Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there is no such thing as an "attention economy." You can't use attention as a medium of exchange. You can't use it as a store of value. You can't use it as a unit of account. Attention is like cryptocurrency: a worthless token that is only valuable to the extent that you can trick or coerce so... See more

a point that I try to emphasize for independent creators or makers: humility, generally, does *not* pay. It's a trap. You have to put your name out there, and claim your wins.

Perhaps it's time we had real brutalist UX - websites that minimize the React cruft, and expose the material of the Web as much as possible, so that there is no room for bad work to hide.

Done properly, this would be a flex just as much as brutalist architecture was a flex for the architects.

In a PLG model, the product sells itself through intuitive design, freemium tiers, and frictionless onboarding. Developers don’t need a community advocate or a conference talk—they sign up, try the product, and decide for themselves.

"For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst." (Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism)

Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think. Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.