cicadas

Creating products so simple anyone could have done it
BUP (billion unit project)

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

People don’t want more.
They actually want less.
They just don’t know how to get there.
#longgame #nftlonggame #nft #product

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@elonmusk new project... https://t.co/6sxYXIj3xW

[🏔Adam🏔 @denverbitcoin]

You are not really free until you can purchase this $10k Toyota truck in the U.S.

Everything short of this is tyranny.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@zachpogrob @davematthewsbnd

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@mcuban Your domain name is ready for the company you are starting

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about.

It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do.

Get good at boring.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

exactly

#longgame

[∩ @zachpogrob]

The steps:
- Don't follow steps
- Don't build a 'personal brand'
- Don't be a 'creator'

Make stuff relentlessly, every day, until you find an idea/mission that's bigger than you

Then, realize you're just the shepherd. If you really want the world to care about you, build something that's not about you

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Bonding through complaining isn’t connection.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@LoganBrownSWS Disneyland is pretty good

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@LoganBrownSWS I just write to myself. If people want to follow along then great. #longgame

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

Humans forget No one is thinking about us

#longgame

[Sam Altman @sama]

i failed pretty hard at my first startup--it sucked!--and am doing pretty well on my second.

the thing i wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don't psych yourself out you can try again.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

Trash Mountain.

#longgame

[∩ @zachpogrob]

Making magic starts with making garbage.

Any ‘overnight success’ is the peak of a mountain, made mostly of trash.

[∩ @zachpogrob]

Making magic starts with making garbage.

Any ‘overnight success’ is the peak of a mountain, made mostly of trash.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@jackbutcher @visualizevalue People are addicted to fillers.

Less is always more.

#longgame

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@zachpogrob Exactly.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

If I'm trying to win by next week I'm screwed.

If I give myself 50 years then I might get there.

Thought we were launching 2 months ago.

It took 2 months to get the finish right.

It's still not perfect.

New product launches tomorrow

Still a ton to learn.

#dtc #product

[Sam Altman @sama]

also it seems like people are way more focused on their “perception” and “optics” and “personal brand” than they were 10 or 20 years ago, and that this makes the whole phenomenon of wanting to stay perfectly on-track even worse.

[∩ @zachpogrob]

Creators are crazy. Because to be one, you have to repeat the same core idea every day, which is the literal definition of insanity.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The most accurate metric for your love of someone is how you feel about their flaws.

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

putting the word "daddy" in your product is a guarantee win.
#longgame

[cicadas @CICADASDESIGN]

@zachpogrob Obsession is the enemy of sleep.
#longgame