Best way to start manufacturing: Find your unfair advantage. Ask yourself: What do I already have? * Capital * Skills * Machines * Land * Contacts * Sales * Marketing Don’t chase random products. There are thousands out there. Find your super power, the one which will build

To master agentic coding, one must first master Factorio

Lies are generally more pleasant than the truth because otherwise, how would they spread?

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung

The first few years of your career are for learning, experimenting, collecting L’s and taking damage. Figuring out what you enjoy and what you don’t. You don’t need to have all the answers, nobody does. Trying to sidestep this discovery process brings you great misery later.

> the first step is courage. you jump into something you don’t understand. you know nothing. so you suck. that hurts your ego. > your brain panics. it wants safety. so you rush to find excuses. you hunt for playbooks/ frameworks. fancy words. anything that makes you look like an

He actually explained how to set goals and chase the person you want to become:

Most good life advice boils down do this: know what makes you come alive. Write it down and then tilt your calendar, projects, and peers toward it. In short, design your life to be maximally alive!

if you're a teenager or young, your biggest strategic lever is that your cost of failure is basically close to zero. so use it to your advantage. take career risks. try building a startup. you'd have such a long adulthood to recover that a few years of failing here and there

No, I won't give exiled Kashmiri Hindus money - every politician promises that. I will, instead make sure their children never have to ask for money. 5% seats in Maharashtra colleges will henceforth be reserved for Kashmiri Hindus - Bal Thackeray, born this day, January 23, 1926.

Electricity is proxy for industrial might. It is the foundation of the economy.

master perfumer, chef, professional taster, and essentially anyone who works with senses where associations are woven tightly with complex cultural context and are hard to map out. this also includes the best cinema, high touch sales, and advertising.

Older men force you to mute your emotions. My experience working with older men professionally has allowed me to develop tact and secrecy. Same-aged contemporaries are easily excitable. You want to infect each other with optimism and daydream about the future. The older folk are

you can only be unlucky for so long

Women can't stand another woman who's more beautiful than them... look at those faces!

Price is not the problem. Cheap thinking is. Ujjwal aged all of 22 - already a factory owner visited today. There’s a 30+ year gap between me & him. He didn’t ask: → What’s the lowest price? He asked: → How do I make this better? → What should I do next? And this

i’m still trying to process this.. this is a fully functional 3d electric circuit simulator running in a browser wizard » Austin Malerba