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But for the new wave of horizontal software tools like Notion, Airtable and Roam, the magic is in their flexibility. By providing the “no-code” building blocks, these startups enable consumers to create their own personalised experience. This creates a "complexity gap".

If Roam continues to succeed at empowering the individual user, becoming the platform for shared public thoughts, and organizing all of that information into a shared index of knowledge, then you start to see Roam transition from a tool to a utility, sort of like the internet.

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” – Amos Tversky

One of the fundamental questions of incentive alignment that emerging companies must ask themselves is whether their primary relationship to their customers' growth is passive (“Enablers”) or active (“Growers”).

I just think that most VCs don't have anything that they truly believe in. Which makes them hard to be indistinguishable from soloists. Because what do you care about? If you don't believe in anything, it means that you don't deeply truly care about something. To me, I mean, maybe this is harsh, I think that's like someone without a soul. Like they... See more

The first domino is love + curiosity, directed both inwards and outwardsThis is critically important because if you approach the process with neediness – a need to prove yourself, assert yourself, anxiety, fear, etc – it'll leak out and sabotage things

In a lot of ways people can be split into aimless and not-aimless like this. I think humans are at their best when they are reaching towards something. It doesn't have to be practical or noble necessarily, but something about the reaching itself seems to be required for people to flourish.