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Our values, aesthetics, taste, and even philosophical positions are often heavily defined by others in deep and unconscious ways

That, as a startup, you should only do half of what you want to do (only half the options, half the tabs, half the offerings, and half the target audience) to compound your chances of true PMF.

What Sam wants to learn in an interview: how you learn, how you perceive the world, what you're interested in and how much you know about it, whether you're aware of the limitations of your knowledge, something unique that you know about the world, who you are and how you see yourself, where you want to be, is this the best fit for everyone's... See more

Today, even in relatively “robotized” industries the average degree of automation is only around 5–10%, while around 85% of all tasks are generally estimated to be “automatable” (=will be automated at some point in the future). Also consider, that worldwide there are still only about 85 robots per 10.000 manufacturing workers.

A world with failing institutions may be survivable by the strong-willed, but a better world will always be one where strong institutions exist.

I think one of the most powerful things that any business can do is to clearly figure out why their growth flattened and why certain people don't use your product - it's often very different than what you think