Craig Wilson

Investing @CollabFund and @AIResidency

Probably outside.

[David Rosenberg @david_rosenberg]

@CGeoffWilson @lolawajs @jacksondahl let's get a taste on the timeline

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@david_rosenberg @lolawajs @jacksondahl

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@david_rosenberg @lolawajs @jacksondahl London version with this crew?

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@david_rosenberg @lolawajs @jacksondahl I've got the best charts 🫡

[NYC Sanitation @NYCSanitation]

We’ve updated our How to Get Rid of tool – take a look! 👀

[Joel Cohen @joelmcohen]

Found this crazy cheat code for getting better at something.

Try just doing it every day.

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@david_rosenberg @tbpn must have the tech podcast slat wall. big little details 🤝

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The app layer couldn’t get a better advertisement than a company spending $500M to build their own version of it. Obviously lots of nuance here that can’t be captured in the headline, but this should make you very bullish on software.

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@donetodeath @BricePartouche @yaboyscottjurek @satisfyrunning @MountainRoche I also thought Salty wrote something really great about this.

https://t.co/yy7M9jr5st

Also don't get me wrong, I'm all for the memes and the fun. That is all hilarious and running should take itself less seriously (think: more David Roche less David Goggins)

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

Satisfy 2cents
-running is the most diverse sport but heavily marketed to men
-brand should say something & theirs does. speaks directly to their community & even if it's not for me, it's cool they do
-experimenting is hard & big swings shld be celebrated
-these lace shirts slap

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@donetodeath @BricePartouche @yaboyscottjurek @satisfyrunning @MountainRoche this is so niche but what is this site for anyway

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@CalvinCupini I agree (with you)

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

.@NYCSanitation I'd like to report a sweep

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

This is not a drill. Weather is perfect on Thursday and I am once again taking over the McCarren Parkhouse hang with my partners in crime @kasrak, @billdybas, and @RaffiSapire. 815 to 1030. Come one. Come all.

[Lola Wajskop @lolawajs]

See you tomorrow at the McCarren Parkhouse 🥐❤️

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@lolawajs maybe the @networked_af crew!

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@Johnsjawn this is actually your most banger tweet

[Craig Wilson @CGeoffWilson]

@mhdempsey if i can find the paper i will, but there is research that suggests one of the best remedies for anxiety or stress is to take action.

i like the edit being to create

[Linus @thesephist]

complement to work are context, expertise, and coordination