Mark Santoso

A marathon is a pretty weak analogy for doing a startup. More like A sailing competition Everyone brings their own boat Can recruit from other boats at any time Leaky holes everywhere Three people are steering (eight are trying to) Boat’s on fire

Working with a friend can cost both a business and a friendship. It can work if the friendship came after working together. It won’t work if the friendship came before and competence is merely assumed.

Building a product for others: - Starting with zero customers - Painfully slow feedback loop - Customers don’t tell you what they really want Building a product for yourself: - Starting with one customer - you! - Infinitely fast feedback loop - Little to no miscommunication

Tip: Avoid large pull requests. Find ways to break them up into smaller ones. Small PRs can be: * Easier to review. Intent is clearer and mistakes are more obvious * Less likely to conflict with others work * Compatible w/large new features - e.g behind a flag * Not a panacea :)

“Desire is suffering.”https://twitter.com/tracesoffaith/status/1193913578530725888 …

Make the inaccessible accessible

The secret sauce behind nearly every world-changing software product: Make the inconvenient, convenient. How? Make the illegible, legible.

Your current habits are perfectly designed to deliver your current results.

JavaScript array methods that are impure mutators of their instance: splice(..) pop(..) push(..) shift(..) unshift(..) reverse(..) sort(..) fill(..)

Like, dislike, good and bad are all just filters in your mind. You choose to interpret your experience through them.