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Founders are constantly asked to envision the path to a world where they’re massively successful. I propose, then, a revision of Kant’s imperative for technologists: do not work on something if you yourself do not want to live in the world where you are massively successful.3 With this reframe, we turn the question of unicorn status on its head, an... See more

The sooner you welcome uncertainty and not-knowing as normal ways of being, the better off you’ll be.

-Write down a shortlist of problems that seem exciting-Leave 1-3 most exciting and tractable problems via pairwise comparison of problems from the shortlist (like how tournaments decide on which team is the most “exciting”)-Start learning everything you need to start working on the problem viaMOOCs-email professors at your local university asking f... See more

A consumer who gets frustrated with a free iPhone app will switch to a competitor without batting an eyelash, but that just can’t happen in the enterprise world. As a rule of thumb, the less patient your users, the better-behaved your app needs to be.

One new thing Twitter created, though few consciously realize it, was a socially acceptable way to publish something only one sentence long.

“Regret is an interesting concept. Often, it involves retroactively considering a decision we made under one set of circumstances and judging it unfairly by our current ones.”

Being closer to the consideration layer with utility-oriented content means XHS will be less substitutable for entertainment. Being closer to the conversion layer also lends its content to easy monetisation through either advertising or commerce.