religion
Billionaire Bootlicking
There is a lot of bootlicking of billionaires on Twitter, but to be fair Elon Musk is a complex man and his accomplishments are awe-inspiring.
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urban-planning
MFW People Develop a Habituation Towards Your Creation
If people are complaining about something, it means the product is good enough that they care about it. The real problem is when no one’s complaining. Is anybody complaining about your product? (Location 939) Bring back Four Lokos!! And change Facebook back to chronological!! OR WE RIOT!! One of
entrepreneurship
Customer Conversations for an Iterative Product
Perfect is the enemy of shipped. Creating the perfect feature indicates making lots of assumptions without gathering user feedback and data, and will take significantly more time. Are you continuing to work on features that are polished enough to put in front of a few customers now and get feedback?
vc-culture
Validating Your Idea Without Really Trying
Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. Do you have a plan to validate your ideas cheaply? (Location 439) This can come off as very tech bro circa 2019 speak where the idea is more about hype than actual delivering. The Silicon
biology
Cyanobacteria First Mover Advantage
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 4: First-mover advantage is useless if the timing isn’t right. Have you thought about ideas, products, or features that failed in the past—simply due to being too early—that may work now? (Location 365) If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product,
entrepreneurship
Dopamine Driven Software Development
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 1: Find something that people are doing inefficiently and create a solution that makes it substantially easier (ten times easier) to achieve the same result. Does your product accomplish this? (Location 260) Make software that automates the tedium, and highlights the dopamine and serotonin hits. The Joys of Micro
Shared Fictions From Birth
We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams. The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child’s attention and introduce these
philosophy
The Only Animal That Suffers
How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is thousands of times. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a
philosophy
Confirmation Bias and How to Avoid It
We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering. (Location 197) Being firm about a goal to achieve and having an open mind are not mutually exclusive. I’ve often noticed that many of
philosophy
The Societal Mirror of Perfection
We know we are not what we believe we are supposed to be and so we feel false, frustrated, and dishonest. We try to hide ourselves, and we pretend to be what we are not. The result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from
philosophy
The Value of a Good Lie
I have learned that lying to oneself and others is a sin, but it can also be a boon for the artist. Furthermore, an imagined reality that is shared by many can have a powerful effect on the world.
philosophy
The Quid Pro Quo of Altruism and Greed
If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I