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“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry.
Many times over the years I have thought about a... See more
John Carmackx.com
Killer quote from Ben Thompson
“The [companies] that benefit are the ones that facilitate the zero marginal cost world without necessarily participating in it themselves” https://t.co/6kf8fSlAkK
The FDE strategy is to do things that don't scale - at scale.
The biggest question startups ask me nowadays is whether to build an FDE team. Great to chat with YC's Lightcone Podcast about the early days of Palantir!
https://t.co/sLZQZaxfMl
Bob McGrewx.comWhen you try to do 100 percent of what somebody wants, you need a perfect match, and it's pretty rare that you have a perfect match between what you thought people needed and what they actually need. If you just try instead to do 80 percent of what they need, there's a pretty good chance that you'll hit a sweet spot. So Rails is really about trying
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Andrew Clay Shafer says, “You are either a learning organization or you are losing to one that is.”
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
One problem with these centralized business models is that they are essentially parasitic to their decentralized counterparts - what makes Linux so valuable is that with thousands of contributors it can offer a level of stability and integrations that other operating systems can’t.
Joey DeBruin • Open source and web3, simplified
Clerk has reached a clear fork in the road:
1. Focus on enterprise sales
Hire an outbound sales team, bump our prices, and focus our engineering efforts on adding extra knobs that enterprises want.
Basically just copy the Auth0 playbook on a more modern... See more
In "The End of Software" @cpaik gets it half right. He totally nails the arc of history (the availability of application software will explode) but it's worth asking "so what?"
Who win: new classes of companies to make order from chaos + take advantage of new markets
Who loses: founders +... See more