Pritesh

The appeal of learning through others is that it can be efficient. Books, mentors, case studies all compress years of experience into hours of consumption. But compression has a cost: it assumes a decoder. Without proper tacit knowledge, the message can lose meaning or, in some cases, be actively confused. In these cases, theory isn’t wrong, just... See more

PMF is effectively the nailing before the scaling.

Nobody sets out planning to move slowly, waste time on bad ideas, and test nothing.

All fraud is a) an abuse of trust causing b) monetary losses for the defrauded and c) monetary gain for the fraudster. You could zero fraud by never trusting anyone in any circumstance.

‘When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it. When you buy something expensive and good, the worst you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it.’

Plus, most ambitious ideas seem wrong at first. If a new idea was obviously good, someone else would have already done it.

On the other hand, exploration is a cognitive process that involves cultivating an interest in obtaining new information. It is closely related to curiosity and represents a desire to learn something new.