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Stop chasing miracles.

Miracles, by definition, are things that happen outside of your control.

How to beat Amazon with your e-commerce startup: - Make it feel like a video game - Compete on community, not price - Ad-free - Spatial - Extra curated, extra niche - Education first, commerce second NEW: I just wrote a post on where ecomm is going

“Actually, _____ is pretty intriguing…”

Not only should you not have the birthday party for your son, but you’re morally obligated to spend less time with your son so you can work more and send more money to help solve the malaria crisis in Africa

Tokens are what you get when you combine a target metric with a built-in incentive: you get an incredibly powerful mechanism for motivating people to do things! This power is why tokenomics is such a promising field and why so many protocols are using tokens to coordinate their communities.

Logic requires that people find universal laws, but outside of scientific fields and once human psychology has a role to play, it is perfectly possible for behavior to become contradictory. A tax rise can cause you to work less because the returns of your labor are lower, or work harder to maintain your present level of disposable wealth. There are... See more

Execution Does Not Matter: If your startup addresses a market that really wants your product, you can screw almost everything up and still likely be successful. On the flip side, if you are really good at execution, but the “dogs aren’t eating the dog food”, you have no chance at winning.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps

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The core insight of Figma is that design is larger than just designers. Design is all of the conversations between designers and PMs about what to build. It is the mocks and prototypes and the feedback on them. It is the handoff of specs and assets to engineers and how easy it is for them to implement them. Building for this entire process doesn’t ... See more