Last night watching Princess Diaries from the heart of SF 👑 #fullcircle moment having watched it growing up and realizing it was filmed in SF all along
I met someone at a wedding working for microsoft. And he said “you know people are so fixated on where you work. To me, it doesn’t really matter to me much. At the end of the day it’s pays the bill”. *shrugs* lowkey breath of fresh air
Be your self, not someone you were assigned to be!
Bezos won on time horizon, not AWS or 1-Click.
If your bets have to work in 3 years, you compete with everyone. Every smart, funded team is chasing the same 3-year problems. Short horizon, crowded field.
Stretch to 7 and the field collapses. Investors want returns, employees want vesting, founders want proof. Almost nobody can sit in a bet that doesn't pay for most of a decade. The patience is the moat, and it costs you, that's why it works.
But you can't fake a 7-year horizon on a problem you don't actually care about. Pick the users and the problem Moloch assigned you, the safe ones, the fundable ones, and you'll bail the first hard year. Pick the ones that are actually yours and you'll still be there when everyone else has quit.
So the real prerequisite isn't discipline. It's knowing yourself well enough to choose a problem and a set of people you care about that you'll serve them for decades.
🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.
Taught by the people who built it.
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I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.
Watch it and bookmark it now.
@calvinmcdonald@lululemon Recently, I had a bad experience with Lululemon. I could not accept my online order due to incredibly high customs tax so I returned it. Today, I received an email saying I will be refunded 0 HKD and only 1 unit was listed (I ordered 3!). Please help!