Daniel Roger

Business, design and tech. What you read here is my (continuously improving) philosophy on building products, personal growth, and venture.

[Daniel Roger @Danirogerc]

El perfeccionismo no solo paraliza, si no que disminuye la calidad a largo plazo

Nos equivocamos cuando pensamos que crearemos algo de calidad limitando el número de creaciones

Producir algo genial es la suma de un gran número de iteraciones derivadas de intentos mediocres

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Speaking to yourself in third-person is a performance enhancer.

Across 7 studies, people who used “you” or their own name instead of “I” under social stress had:
↑ objective-rated performance
↓ distress
↓ post-event rumination

[Justin Poehnelt @JPoehnelt]

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.

It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.

I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.

I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.

Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Google fired the guy that made the google workspace cli, because he made the google workspace cli.

Lucky me, Google can't fire me. https://t.co/o15a6lOxec

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

phone background until I hit 100m in ebitda per year (2028)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you realize preparation always beats planning. Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. Plan for order and you'll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you'll thrive in any condition.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One reason it's more difficult to work with people you don't have faith in is simply that there are more possibilities to consider whenever they do something. You also have to consider all the ways they might have screwed up. Even if they didn't, you still have to think about it.

[Nevo David @wickedguro]

Postiz makes $135k MRR.
I have never had higher engagement on X than today.

And I can now predict how many views each of my posts will get.

When my MRR was $21k, I never passed the 100 views. And it still counts as a high MRR.

This is my honest take on how I do things now.

[Jasper de Boer @jasperdeboer]

i found the reason I don't have $500M today

[iuliia shnai @shnai0]

3 years ago I made $200 per month, today it is $200,000 bootstrapped by 2 people

1000x

Back than, if smn would tell me that this is possible, I would never believe.

I saw a lot of “overnight” successes, all those stories of building successful saas, going from 0 to 1000 customers but could never apply it to myself.

Yes, smn can but not me.

Learning?

Just keep building, of course. You don’t need to be top 1% to build company which will change your life.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. There's immense power in rejecting that trend. Slow down. Create space to think clearly.

[Jacin 🏴‍☠️ @jacintofleta]

Si lo único que haces hoy es difundir esto de Míriam, ya tienes el día hecho!

[Vadim @VadimStrizheus]

do you understand what just happened?!

the guy whose AI raised $30M is starting a YouTube channel documenting his entire journey on how he built Polsia...

every single founder needs to watch this. 👇

[Naval @naval]

If your success or failure is judged by other people, rather than by nature or free markets, you’re playing a game, albeit a reified and social one.

[Noely D. Méndez- Capital Faktory Research @CapitalFaktory]

Alcanzamos ya las 46 empresas bajo cobertura en Capital Faktory Research, donde trabajamos día a día en convertirnos en la mayor casa de análisis de habla hispana, conformando al mejor equipo de analistas.

Próximos estudios muy pronto $BKNG $EXPE $FICO $EXPERIAN $EFX $V $MA $AXP $NFLX $DIS $IBKR $Renta4 $HLT $MAR

[Naval @naval]

Science is not a process, a credential, or an institution.

It is the unflinching pursuit of truth, carried out by the few, co-opted by the many.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

How am I only now finding out about appshots?

I was dragging screenshots into codex live a caveman.

[Don Antoño @AntonioGoBe]

El cabrón lleva una década repitiendo la misma puta mierda. Pero joder hay que reconocer que cuando la integras es la mejora puta mierda que podrías echarte a la cara. Si te pilla en el momento correcto, es ese tipo de mierda que te cambia quién eres.

[Suhail @Suhail]

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends:

Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

[Naval @naval]

If you don’t want this moment, then you will never be happy.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

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.