Shreyas Doshi IMO the best product will stem from a very strong mental model of the domain and the users. UXR can help you *get* to such a model, and validate it along the way, but it's important to view the syllogism as UXR -> model -> product, not UXR -> product.

Applies to ~90% of tech rebrands (particularly B2B); unnecessary marketing exercises with high cost and no real payoff

I think about this Alex Karp clip often:

After 10+ years, 10+ billion views, $10s of millions generated for channels. I think this is the most important principle to understand for YouTube growth. This is everything:

Congrats on hitting your Q3 numbers. Here is an even bigger Q4 number that you will be fired if you don't hit, you fucking moron

mfw you move to SF

Peter Thiel remains undefeated.

The ultimate level of Google complacency is not even being able to become a paying customer if you wanted to — currently stuck on infinite buffering when creating a billing account but I also can't contact support without already being a customer...

The future comes slowly and then all at once.

The Tesla event last night is another example of how in many industries, marketplaces are just an intermediary step. Once you can figure out how to provide the service at sufficient cost and scale, we'll see many industries tip into consolidated super-suppliers. However in

Analogy I find myself using a lot: pre-war steel Modern steel is contaminated from the atom bomb detonations. For applications that need uncontaminated steel, they salvage it from old shipwrecks. But it applies to many things: pre-avengers cinema pre-car cities pre-llm content

Europe – we need your help. Please sign this petition to create a pan-european legal entity and promote it as much as you can: eu-inc.org We got RIGHT NOW a once in a generation chance to improve Europe for startups. 🔥 We got 6 weeks until the new comission sets

This quote goes pretty hard but also reminds me of one my favourite Tom Fishburne cartoons

Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons SpaceX’s triumph is downstream of a dream and getting the cost structure necessary to make it happen; Elon Musk is trying the same approach for Tesla self-driving cars stratechery.com/2024/elon-drea…

nabeelqu.co/reflections-on… In general, there are too few essays reflecting honestly on work at Valley companies; hopefully this one is interesting for some of you.

Let me tell you about one of my biggest mistakes in life, courtesy of tylercowen. Cowen says one mark of talent is knowing the right status hierarchies to climb. I chose the wrong status hierarchies, though hopefully some of that was not entirely my fault. As a Midwest "farm

When you gain momentum, aim to keep it. It can be easily lost. Act like your life depends on it. Momentum is quite a powerful driver.