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[Paul Graham @paulg]

Expressing yourself well compounds. You don't just understand your current ideas better. You're also more likely to have the new ideas that follow from them.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Every writer has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.

Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer (I never did), putting thoughts on paper is the best way to A) develop ideas, and B) review and improve your thinking.

The benefits of even 30 minutes a week of scribbling can transfer to everything else that you do.

The following bullets are writing prompts that Cheryl Strayed (@CherylStrayed) has suggested when asked for assignment ideas for students who’ve read Wild.

They are brilliant and make fantastic jumping-off points for any type of journaling or writing, whether Morning Pages, a blog post, the beginning of a novel, a letter to a friend, a diary entry, a screenplay, or a too-fast-too-soon Tinder message.

Try one for two pages of longhand writing. Go for uninterrupted flow, and don’t stop to edit. Step one is to generate without judging. Chances are that you’ll surprise yourself.

Write about a time when you realized you were mistaken.

Write about a lesson you learned the hard way.

Write about a time you were inappropriately dressed for the occasion.

Write about something you lost that you’ll never get back.

Write about a time when you knew you’d done the right thing.

Write about something you don’t remember.

Write about your darkest teacher.

Write about a memory of a physical injury.

Write about when you knew it was over.

Write about being loved.

Write about what you were really thinking.

Write about how you found your way back.

Write about the kindness of strangers.

Write about why you could not do it.

Write about why you did.

[Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1]

Steve Jobs anticipates Large Language Models

Cc: @erikbryn @WalterIsaacson @ylecun @Scobleizer

[Tim Bennetto @Timb03]

Pallyy's MRR:

- 6 months: $900
- 12 months: 1.4k
- 18 months: 1.4k
- 24 months: 3k
- 30 months: 17k
- 36 months: 29k
- 42 months: 51k
- 47 months: 61k

This is what happens when you focus on 1 project.

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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[James Clear @JamesClear]

With the creative process, the key is to create a lot and edit a lot.

Make more than you need, then remove everything that isn’t exceptional.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

All of my startup experience summed up:

The right person with the precise right focus and completely unshackled is 10x as effective as 10 pretty smart people working hard in a vague general direction

[kepano @kepano]

Concise explanations accelerate progress

If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, reworked — or built upon.

Concise explanations spread faster because they are easier to read and understand. The sooner your idea is understood, the sooner others can build on it.

Concise explanations accelerate decision-making. They help everyone understand the idea and decide whether to agree with it or not.

Concise explanations make ideas useful. One idea can more easily be combined with another idea to form a third idea.

Concise explanations work at every scale. From your own thinking, to the progress of an entire organization, community, or civilization.

Leadership is built on concise explanations. Without concise explanations you have no foundation to build on.

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

@RampCapitalLLC Low testosterone levels

[Garrett Scott 🕳 @thegarrettscott]

One of the most frustrating things that holds smart people back from building great things is how uncomfortable they are looking dumb.

It’s VERY hard to build things of meaningful value unless you’re ok with people thinking your an idiot for long periods of time.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

What you focus on is what you improve. Most founders don’t build great products because they focus on things that aren’t important like investors, hiring, pitch decks, tweeting, press, their peers, etc. The best founders focus on their customers, their product, and their health. It’s easier to raise money, hang with startup investors, hire employees, sling decks, tweet, get on a Forbes list, and brag to your friends than it is to build a good product. Don’t let fear convince you to focus on what’s easy. Embrace the hard task of caring for your users and you maximize your chances of success. Understand that 90%+ of founders around you won’t follow this advice. Act like the average startup founder - get the average result. At YC our core goal is to help you strive for excellence and accomplish an extraordinary outcome.

[David Park @Davidjpark96]

My story of dropping out of college and building Jenni AI 🦄

#buildinpublic #startups #jenniai

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Ask Me Anything about AI, or any of the topics in Why AI Will Save The World, as responses to this tweet and I will answer as many as I can.

https://t.co/GyWVLACezb

[tyler hogge @thogge]

@pmarca Which part of the startup value chain is the constraint preventing us from 10x’ing number of exceptional startups? What’s the bottleneck?

a) not enough exceptional founders
B) not enough capital
C) not enough great ideas
D) something else?

[tyler hogge @thogge]

I think about this question a lot

fun answer from @pmarca

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

if i were young and in my 20s, i’d drop what i was doing and dive head first into becoming an Idea Guy

[Tom Harari @tomharari]

Today, I turn 38.

I've raised millions of dollars, married twice, had a kid, and recovered from devastating injury and depression.

Here's 38 lessons I'd tell my 18 year old self:

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

truly, bias for action—more than any other trait—is the trait that seems most correlated with success and impact

it is SO much better to be constantly shipping, making mistakes, and learning than to be smart, cynical, paralyzed & inert

get out there—go do some shit!

[David @DavidSHolz]

The foundational challenge in design is that it's easy to make things hard and hard to make things simple.