In October, 2012 - Michael Connell and I launched Native Numbers into the iPad app store. 10 years later - over 720,000 children have used the app to learn number sense. We sat down to talk about the journey and what's next - full episode here:
https://t.co/QDvtmgJlcv
You need to be teaching your children to be proud to be American
You must never allow anyone to tell them they should apologize for being American
From Christopher Columbus to Neil Armstrong and beyond
America is the land of adventurers, explorers, and heroes
You should want to control and host your own memory
It’s the one thing that you should be able to take to any platform
Watch for this to be a defining battle in the new browser war: the AI harness wars of 2027
The opposite of paranoia is pronoia, the irrational belief that the universe is conspiring in your favor. I have built my entire career on pronoia and I highly recommend it.
@MaxNordau@Mbakaza4L FAFO is basically a law of physics.
Watching all of these blowhard idiots trying to make the argument that someone should get a pass from FA is stupid.
There are two loops in every founder's head.
The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction.
The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction.
Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush.
PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge.
Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second.
There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.
A founder kept saying "if only we had money we'd do X."
Money is not the fire. Money is gasoline you pour on a fire that already exists.
You don't have a funding problem. You have a "people don't want it yet" problem. Go make the first fire.
@Mish_K_@Newrygal1 Why are so many Irish so in the tank for Hamas?
(or is this just my imagination...?)
I'm half Irish - and I can assure you - I don't like Hamas.
@brianeskow There is a certain place in hell for people who drive Teslas but make it a point to say they hate Elon, lol.
He is literally the means of production.
If you don't like it, drive something else, but stop whining 😂