entrepreneurship
#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
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The previous chapter presented diagrams illustrating that most people work for everyone but themselves. They work first for the owners of the company, then for the government through taxes, and finally for the bank that owns their mortgage. (Location 1143) After college, many educated young Americans finds themselves in need
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For example, had I continued with my flying career, I would have sought a company that had a strong pilots union. Why? Because my life would be dedicated to learning a skill that was valuable in only one industry. If I were pushed out of that industry, my life’s
anxiety
Your competition is not better. Even if your competitor has 1000 employees, that doesn't make them better, they more likely work a lot slower and less efficient than a smaller company. Also, a big company is more likely to ruin a perfectly good product trying too hard to
vc-culture
Hypothesis: The unit economics of the machine learning space LLM 2020's startups are not similar to the social networking space in the mid-2000s. This will create a five year vacuum in VC's expecting returns Why? * Metcalfe's law is at play for people-run networks, but
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Open Question for 2023: Do I need a book if my published graph is impressive and deeply linked enough? Book pros: * a long standing market * most dense linear knowledge transporter in existence * paper + digital * author support * resilient to time * depth of a single topic Digital Zettelkasten Pros: * non linear * wild
ai
Birds of a Feather Rock, Paper, Shears. No, thats not right… Rock, Post-It, Scissors. Hmm, that's not it either… But what if it could be? The Burden of the Creative Expert Creating is a process of conjecture and testing. Conjecture is expansion -- the words on paper, the