building in public soon ⚒️
prev product @onlineinterns @CodingNinjasOff and co-founder @CreatorsofProd
occasional tweets about @ManUtd 🔴 and @OfficialFPL ⚽
Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something.
Last day as a full-time employee. No new logo to announce, no fund to thank. Just a quieter calendar and a list of questions I've been avoiding because the day job was a good excuse not to answer them.
You are far more dangerous to your startup than competitors are. A hundred times more startups die from poor execution by their founders than are killed by competitors.
Every morning, the moment my eyes open, I wake up to 40 unread Slack messages that effectively say:
“If you don’t fix this in the next 5 minutes, the world will implode and the app will cease to exist.”
Prioritisation meetings that drag on for weeks are rarely prioritisation problems.
They're strategy disagreements that nobody wants to accept as strategy disagreements.
Dear Journalists,
This is how badly you have failed the future of this country.
Bunch of teenagers are dealing 1-2-3 blows to expose CBSE HQ's incompetence and lies.
DON'T YOU DARE KILL THIS STORY OVER THE WEEKEND.
THIS NEEDS TO BE COVERED EVERY DAY UNTIL RESULTS ARE OUT.
The AI ponzi scheme goes like this:
Everyone is generating all these long ass docs and then passing them off for others to read
Then the person receiving is like, wtf this is way too long, and hands that into an AI to read and summarize
Then they are generating a long ass response back
and this cycle goes like that forever. and we call this work now 😅
The token lords watch this from their towers nodding and grinning.
Starting to think the most useful thing about being between roles is the freedom to take ideas seriously for longer than is reasonable.
When you're inside a company, the cost of exploring an idea is the opportunity cost of not shipping the next thing. So you kill ideas fast, on weak signal, often correctly. Between roles, you can let an idea breathe for two weeks. You can read around it, build a crappy prototype, talk to ten people, and only then decide whether it's worth your next four years.
It's slower. It's also the only way some ideas reveal themselves at all.
I keep noticing that the ideas I'm most excited about are usually the ones where I'm the user. Which is either a good signal or the oldest founder trap in the book.