Am I the only one that thinks the Figma dev mode seats update is an absolute mess? You'd of thought that the company responsible for design tools for the UX world would have at least a semi-usable billing experience

Don’t set yourself on fire, to keep others warm.

Building empires from coffee shops 🇹🇭 Bill Lee

Whatever your startup's strategy is communicate it clearly and often. Make it so simple that even a 5-year-old could understand and get excited about it. Simple motivates people and complex confuses people. Clear communication aligns everyone. Your team needs to know the

Sitting down for 15 minutes to identify open loops that you need to close in your life is immensely productive Open loops being anything unresolved, unsatisfactory, or that is just lingering and taking up mental space

Building a team around your SaaS company isn't easy. Do you have passive or active employees/contractors? Passive employees/contractors are great when you need to free up time (Get on with working in silence) Active employees/contractors are great when you're actually trying

Bootstrap and fail fast simply is rarely an option with larger/enterprise, more business-critical SaaS software Don't feel bad if you can't get MVP with this class of software quickly

When you don't have VC-funded 'time', you quickly realise the most important things in UX are initial information architecture, innovation (to a point), and user feedback. Every other 'methodology' or tool, is mostly fluff or a different way of doing those things I've mentioned

It's easier to be grateful for the life you have, when you realise the bullshit others have to deal with to have the super nice things in life it & keep them Problem is you rarely see that side

Saas founders getting their companies started

"Attaining something worthwhile is almost always going to be difficult, but just because it's difficult doesn't mean it's worthwhile"

I remember there was a period of time where people were hating on 'lifestyle entrepreneurs' for capping their growth. It's sort of smart, but misses a point. You absolutely should be optimising for a life you enjoy, but learning to delegate in business is what can keep you

The internet has contributed to alienation from reality, to the point where it's perceptions become more real to people than reality itself

Anyone who says Elon doesn't deserve any credit for spacex, the engineers who did all the work do, has never tried to get a bunch of engineers to make anything

Slowly, slowly, then suddenly all at once.

Spoke at length with Hamza regarding agency, ecom, online money, biz, etc. A few profound reflections from our conversations: - Nobody actually has any truly secret sauce. The winners are the ones who can do the basics well, build systems, iterate, and scale. - Your

Effort in business is absolutely overshadowed by what equity vehicle/model you choose. You basically choose how difficult it will be to make $100k from day 1. Insane seeing mfs working 2x less making 2x more. Even the guys in the top 0.01% see this with people on their level 💭

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