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Running a startup:
3:00pm: *googles the requirements for food stamps, just in case*
*new customer demo goes well*
3:35pm: *googles the price of buying a Gulfstream jet, just in case*
Your startup needs just 5 things to be successful:
- Solution to a painful problem
- Viable business model
- Great story to tell
- Team that executes
- Dark mode
We are working on a system that allows direct communication to a drilling rig from anywhere ... It's functional, yet the customer "When is dark mode coming?" ... WTF
Your startup needs just 5 things to be successful:
- Solution to a painful problem
- Viable business model
- Great story to tell
- Team that executes
- Dark mode
Teachers can only deduct up to $250 for school supplies on their taxes, but billionaires can write off the entire cost of a private jet.
This is what it looks like when laws are written by millionaires, funded by billionaires.
Unrig the system.
Elect a working class Congress.
X : You don't like Dune?
Me : A plot of oppressed people need a rich dude to save them, rich dude becomes the new oppressor, rich dude's children are gods, rich dude's god children come up with new plan to save oppressed poor ... yeah, for some reason that never clicks with me.
The Point:
YETI isn't a water cooler company.
They are a business that bottles up the feeling of adventure and sells it.
And now that includes bags, bottles, mugs and clothes.
YETI turned water coolers into a $5 billion brand.
How did they do it?
By turning a commodity into a status symbol.
Here are 4 lessons worth your time👇
A makeshift submarine using IKEA food container & legos. I love the idea of magnets to transfer kinetic energy without breaking the seal. By BEC http://youtube.com/c/BrickExperimentChannel…
Impact of WFH on youth is the same as impact of children who study at home.
No real bonds. No real social or network skills. Illusion of understanding and learning. No osmosis.
Comfortable but damaging in the long run.
Constantly claiming to be a victim is not a sign of virtue. It's a strategy for narcissists and psychopaths to get ahead.
Data: people who regularly signal victimhood are more willing to lie, cheat, and steal.
Beware those who air personal grievances like every day is Festivus.
Some conclusions after 1 full month of learning web3 and blockchain.
Proclaimed web3 companies that are trying to support developers, are essentially building web2 based platforms for accessing blockchain nodes.
1/n
Most of us need less friends and more intellectual sparring partners.
Friends are easy to come by. They are nice and pleasant.
Intellectual sparring partners are harder to find. They are willing to call you on your BS, question your assumptions, and push you to think deeply.
The antidote to selfishness isn't altruism. It's generosity.
Selfishness is expecting others to sacrifice for you.
Altruism is sacrificing yourself for others.
Generosity is helping others without hurting yourself.
You can't care for others if you don't take care of yourself.
My mother's sage reply still holds to this day:
"Mom, are we rich?
Yes we are David, we're very rich. And someday we'll have money."
I've always said I'll take Time over money any day.
It's not so much having a lot of money vs. managing debt.
Debt-free is so very liberating!
"Crypto is gonna be better than what came before!"
Oh cool let me try... Aw man I got screwed!
"Yeah that'll happen. Better luck next time."
I mean can't you prevent this?
"Nah. It's working as designed."
Wait, how is this better?
"... I don't understand the question."
The best performing commodity since 2020 is lithium hydroxide, the main ingredient in EV batteries. With prices up > 6x, the market is sending signal that supplies can't meet automaker demand. Metals will be the limiting factor on EV growth.
i sat through a diversity training once where a white diversity expert insisted that we should say “latinx” even if the people in question didn’t prefer it, because they just didn’t understand enough yet.
still think about that.
Feedback loops are the force that shapes systems and organizations over time. To understand a complex system, look for its feedback loops. To steer a complex system, initialize a feedback loop.
It's now practically impossible to shop online for a pillow. Everything is SEO-gamed, including Amazon. Any potential real advice is buried under layers of sponsorship. A pillow should cost less than $50. Not $219
May be reduced to going to Ikea. It's come to that
"Just lost a solid senior engineer who shared they doubled their compensation to work at a well-funded startup, full-remote.
I asked why they looked for something else. 'You announced back to the office for the spring, and it was the trigger.'"
An increasingly common story.
Remembering how hard it was to navigate between 2 unfamiliar addresses before online mapping. It could easily take 10 min to find a suboptimal route with no ETA on a purchased city map, then had to listen to radio to check for accidents. Now 100x faster, 10x better, and free.
is one of the most practical productivity books I've read.
It's been recommended by Greg McKeown, Adam Grant, James Clear, and many more authors. And for good reason, it's a fantastic book.
Here are 12 of my favorite lessons from it:
The financial system is so adversarial that many of the regulations only exist to limit how much harm can be done to you.
Recent innovations in this space are about removing those limits.