Julian Paul
@julian
Rational optimist building internet things.
Julian Paul
julianpaul.me
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
LET SOMETHING GOOD HAPPEN WITHOUT DOWNPLAYING IT, FIXING IT, OR EARNING IT.
By Francesca Phillips
The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.
paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas
Luck is unevenly distributed, unpredictable and unfair. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be luck.
Seth Godin • Self Awareness and the Luck-Skill Gap
Intentionality is what determines if your computer is a tool or a hyper-television.
The Apple principle: “Don’t ship novelty. Ship significance.”
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
... See more"The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."
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