The not-so-dirty not-so-secret about companies at small scales is that the amount of works look infinite because the amount of things you *could* do is, strictly, infinite, but of your current portfolio of things you could drop 40~80% without any material impact.https://twitter.com/hnshah/status/1170203892199522304 …
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It’s so, so, so easy to rack up weeks or months where a) you were busy, b) the things you were busy with certainly read like work, c) you were productive according to the internal logic of those tasks, and d) the business did not improve an iota.
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(I was as guilty of this as anyone, since I immensely enjoy a lot of the quotidian mechanics of business processes, like applying for insurance. To misquote a comic book movie: “And what is your business, the business of applying for insurance coverage?”
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Agree with this. Though I wonder if this also points to there being things that individually no one will do, but collectively would have high returns if group of companies all did
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I agree but the things that are a waste of time are often only with the benefit of hindsight. The most impactful ideas often only arose out of trying a lot of other things that didn't have a good chance of working (and usually didn't)
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Very easy to get lost in the weeds on building less-critical product components as well.
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I'd add working out to that list. Its YC canon anyhow.
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Yep, including talking to investors
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