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James Chen

@realjames0119

Co-Founder at utorify
Thinker. Fallibilist. Lifelong Learner.

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Most people burn out not because they do too much, but because they do things with no plan to sustain. Many great entrepreneurs I know are boringly consistent. And they all build systems. Progress grows quietly. You just gotta survive long enough to see it.

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the advice “build an audience then monetize” is backwards for people with jobs. u should monetize first, then grow around what people actually pay for, not around what the algorithm randomly boosts.

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The most dangerous addiction today isn't a substance. Research on 100,000 people confirms that heavy short-form video use is just voluntary cognitive decline. We are actively training our brains to fail at hard tasks. If you can simply sit with a problem for 10 minutes without

The most dangerous addiction today isn't a substance.

Research on 100,000 people confirms that heavy short-form video use is just voluntary cognitive decline. We are actively training our brains to fail at hard tasks.

If you can simply sit with a problem for 10 minutes without
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Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many

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you can be great at what you do and still struggle to make money if you never learn how to turn your skill into a clear offer and a clear offer into a closed deal.

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The unfair advantage now is being able to go from idea → product → story → distribution without waiting. That’s basically marketing + design + engineering in one body.

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Performance Hints Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've

Performance Hints

Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code.  We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've
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The reason you haven’t started is not that you don't have the skills. It's the fear of picking the wrong thing, judgment, and all those what ifs in your head.

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Accepting that you're in this alone to figure out every possible unknown is probably the hardest part of starting a business.