It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds. To me it seems *more* impressive to conclude P after previously believing ~P. If P is in fact true, you not only got the right answer, but did it with a headwind.

One of my favorite definitions of “music” is via artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who said: “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

Steve Jobs was asked in 2008 if BlackBerry should worry about the iPhone:

Imaging trying to explain to the ancients how we taught sand to think by instilling it with lightning. (But also we would insist to them that, no, magic isn’t real)

Question for all the first principles thinkers out there: What is the first principle?

If the week had a stressful start, laugh and destress on Sunday, 6pm watching this panel getting roasted. New jokes on me as I got a haircut. All tickets are equal, convenience charge isn't Paytm: insider.in/roast-of-tech-… Stripe (0 fee): book.stripe.com/6oE4iE28q7ru53… RT for karma

It is far faster to learn if you just admit your ignorance honestly than to keep making it seem like you know a little more than you do.

Divyaansh Anuj Matt Yao 🧭 +1. Been a user for few months, working flawlessly for me, also helping me stay in touch with a lot of folks I wanted to be in touch with.

Founders never get “too senior” to do the actual work They’ll always do it, Day 1 or Day 1000 This is often why we struggle with VPs that won’t. And make mishires here. We just assume they will.

You work for others until you can work for yourself. You work for yourself until you can work for others.

First-time founders: proud to share how many employees they have Second-time founders: proud to share how few employees they have

good sign for the resilience and adaptability of people in the face of technological change: the turing test went whooshing by and everyone mostly went about their lives

If only you knew how good things really will be

Over the last couple of months helping founders, most requests were around connecting to senior operators from The Product Folks 🚀 ecosystem Launching Backyard Boardrooms — where founders 🤝 the smartest operators Huge shoutout to Blume Ventures Mixpanel for making it happen

You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product. However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their

Neuralink was kind enough to open their doors for me to tour their headquarters a few weeks back. It was an amazing experience and a day I'll never forget. This was at a company wide meeting at the end of the day. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Hope y'all enjoy!

Was chatting with a well-known founder yesterday about the "founder mode" discussion. We were both wondering if people would misinterpret it, and undervalue the importance of hiring great leaders. Steve Jobs, the canonical example of "founder mode", was also gifted at

David Sacks If you're able to think for yourself instead of adopting a complete set of orthodox left- or (in your case) right-wing opinions, it's possible to see how dishonest both wokeness and Trump are. paulgraham.com/mod.html

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. At OWID, we believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the