Julian Paul

@julian

Rational optimist building internet things.

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Finding startup ideas is a subtle business, and that's why most people who try fail so miserably. It doesn't work well simply to try to think of startup ideas. If you do that, you get bad ones that sound dangerously plausible. The best approach is more indirect: if you have the right sort of background, good startup ideas will seem obvious to you.... See more

paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas

[startup]

“Better” is a journey, not a destination

[self]

[self]

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I love Dyson’s ethos: https://t.co/y96y5RcsTP

David Senra

x.com

[creativity]

"Discouragement isn’t the end of the journey — it’s a place to stop and lick your wounds, tend to your heart, catch your breath, and then start again."

https://zenhabits.net/discouragement/

[self]

Time is the best editor.

If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.

[creativity]

well-arranged words rearrange reality.

Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

[distribution]

Raycast - Why

raycast.com

[manifesto]

Sublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):

Be fanatic about product excellence

We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every

[manifesto]