We are opening up a new role at Quora: a single engineer who will use AI to automate manual work across the company and increase employee productivity. I will work closely with this person.
I can’t stop thinking about this post. If you do one thing today, I encourage you to give it a thoughtful, thorough read…
And then commit to never living your life this way. Life has wasted success on the people described in this post.
It really is completely pathetic. They say that comparison is the thief of joy - look no further than this post for validation it is indeed true.
On their deathbed they will realize they have lived their life completely wrong. Don’t let it be you.
B2B customer proof/logo wall tiers:
Tier 8: "Loved by people who use other unrelated products"
Tier 7: A few users who happen to work at famous companies
Tier 6: One team somewhere in the company uses it
Tier 5: Companies use the product but didn't give their permission to use their logo in marketing
Tier 4: Actual contracted customers with wall to wall instals and with logo permissions acquired
Tier 3: Customer story / video
Tier 2: They build their company operations around your product and call it “the [Company] way”
Tier 1: Their CEO mentions you unprompted in an all-hands, investor update, or earnings calls
There's still utility cooking for friends if you use a recipe and store bought ingredients. Even if Grandma made it from scratch and perfected it.
You're making something fun (in your v limited spare time) and sharing it for free. Your friend's random +1 doesn't have to eat it
This is such a perfect embodiment of the AI era. No shade to the author, we’re all guilty.
RCT was hand written in assembly by a master of the craft.
Now we can cosplay as him, produce a very sloppy version of the original, and get some temporary tiktok-eque 15s high. For what?