Sublime

You can learn anything you want as long as you’re willing to look dumb in front of other people for an extended period of time.

the biggest frustration of a hardcore technologist in san francisco is how many companies both tiny and gargantuan are kinda fake - investors often can't tell the difference between story and substance and armed with a billion dollars it may take a decade for it to fail. as an

when i had a venture-backed startup it was so hard to balance the desires of customers, investors, and myself. now (with no investors) i just make stuff i enjoy, people similar to me help pay for it, i ask what else they want, i do 50% that + 50% stuff i want and it all works out

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Ah. Why are European-Americans suddenly so inferior at math since like 1998? Why are the people of Newton, Einstein, Dirac, Crick, Feynman, Heisenberg etc suddenly no longer able to do first rate science? Excellent question! Do you want the brutal answer? Those "white kids" are being forced into trying to figure out how... See more

About 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea. The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%. For example: > Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming pr... See more