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Be curious, not critical.Ask questions until you understand something truly.Don’t be afraid to ask the obvious questions that everyone seems to know t
they question and rethink their own assumptions, readily admit and learn from mistakes, moderate their confidence in a given hypothesis based on the s
Psychologists and other social scientists have taken up this mantle in recent decades, conducting numerous studies showing that those who score higher
I can't stand "that's the way we've always done it" mentality. Like….why? Because what worked before will work forever? Because innovation doesn't
One of the litmus tests I use before releasing any work is—is this “unLLMable.” By which I mean, does this work carry the unmistakable fingerprint of
I’m troubled by the over-glorification of entrepreneurial “success at all costs”. While I’ve had a good run, the things I’m proudest of aren’t my
As Warren Buffett put it, “The five most dangerous words in business are ‘Everybody else is doing it.’” This monkey see, monkey do approach creates a
Stop expecting out-of-the-box results while staying inside the box.
In our addiction to progress we have forgotten: It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere. - Ursula K. L
Underrated life advice: Nobody cares. When you’re winning, nobody cares. When you’re losing, nobody cares. It doesn’t mean nobody loves you, it just m
less about finding answers and more about asking better questions.
When embarking on the journey of critical thinking, it's essential to arm yourself with diverse questioning techniques.
Erwin Schödinger: “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing. Make stuff you use every day
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about
if you want to start a startup and don't know yet what you're going to do, I'd encourage you to focus initially on organic ideas. What's missing or br
Highly creative people differ not only in idea generation, but in how they relate to possibility itself. They often notice more of what goes on around
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense
"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?" Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?" (Via Matt Lerner)
1. inversion baitwhat’s something everyone in this field assumes is true... that might actually be false?2. regarded lenswhat would a complete idiot a
What does slow AI look like?
The internet is infinite. It’s an infinite space. It could be a realm for exploring and opening the mind. Instead, it has become a tool for closing th
Life is so weird and awesome, and there’s so much depth to it, but people, particularly young people, but really everybody with technology and a phone
Much of the discourse in the tech industry lately is very “anti-user”. Anytime someone doesn’t love AI—its ‘skill issue’, the person isn’t curious o
Bubbling excitement for what the day holds. Novelty in the smallest of things. Unburdened by the clouds of worry that dim an adults life. Possibility
Honestly: I don’t want AI to make me 10x more productive so that I can “crush it” and “stay ahead of everyone else.” I actually just want a calmer,
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don't assume when this happens that you
Every one of you is working on a space that contains at least one winning permutation somewhere in it. If you just keep trying, you'll find it.
There’s a way to do it better. Find it. Thomas Edison
Optimistic really ought to be a verb It's something you *do*, not some property you happen to possess. Sometimes it's easy to do, and sometimes it's
Start small: Practice saying no without explaining why. Just "that doesn't work for me" and sitting in the silence. Every over-explanation is you mana
“When you say no, you are only saying no to one option. When you say yes, you are saying no to every other option. No is a choice. Yes is a respons
“If the answer isn’t a definite yes then it should be a no.”
Boundaries Scripts That doesn’t work for me, but thank you for thinking of me! I’ve share where I’m coming from, and I want to honor that without need
Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction. To know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life, to make plans with them, and then resc
To be close requires going out on a limb and asking for togetherness, despite the potential of rejection, abandonment, or carelessness. All friendship
someone can still matter to you, still be someone you root for, still be part of your story, without being someone you confide in daily. closeness isn
We’ll never be friends if we spend all of our energy trying not to bother each other.
GenAI is just another source of “raw footage” (albeit a unique one) that is used to craft a story. But the “craft” part (the editing, the taste, the p
We are in an age of noise. The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders
In something he calls the “theory of maximum taste,” New York Times columnist David Brooks says that each person’s mind is defined by its upper limit—
It also helps to travel in topic space. You'll have more new ideas if you explore lots of different topics, partly because it gives the angle grinder
Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas, your motto should not be "do what you love" so much as "do what you're curious about."
The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.
When picking a hard, important problem to build a company around, you should focus on areas where you are uniquely adept - both to improve probability