.@ScottWu46 explains why startups can beat incumbents:
"You have no right to exist. You have no right to win. The reason you are sometimes able to win anyway is: you plant your flag in the ground and put a stake into what you think the future is, and run like hell towards that."
"The idea that you would work with AI as a coworker rather than as a tool or chatbot, I think that was very important for us—our brand, our recruiting, our customer work, everything—for us to be the first ones to actually plant that flag in the ground and say that."
Anthropic's Head of Product for Claude Code just explained how they ship in days — not months.
30 minutes. Free.
More useful than every product strategy course you've ever bookmarked.
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A few geniuses solve problems and automate solutions for the rest of society.
Any society that can overcome envy to maximize the number and output of geniuses will thrive.
"The reason I didn’t move to Silicon Valley is I knew how to create geographical consensus in the eastern seaboard, that Shopify is the best company to work for, full stop.
I knew I had the ability to do it, I knew how to build a company that I would want to work for. I estimated I will need somewhere between a thousand people, back in those days, I’m like, 'I'm going to find another thousand people that think like me how good a company needs to be to work for. I can dislodge all of them.'"
— @tobi
I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things.
If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need: