Our addiction to shoddy work and our aversion to rigor and excellence are our nation’s biggest failings. You see it everywhere: in our buildings, our government, our events, even our journalism.
Tech company Just Like Me has launched an AI Jesus avatar users can talk to for $1.99 per minute
The AI, based on The Chosen actor Jonathan Roumie, can pray with users, speak multiple languages, and remember past conversations
@EOEboh They are systems thinkers, process-minded, efficiency-driven, creative under constraints, and responsibility-oriented.
This doesn't necessarily make them good leaders if they can't positively influence people to achieve a goal and design systems that reward desired behavior.
A pattern I've noticed in stuck people:
They're always busy. They never stop moving. They have 47 tabs open and a notebook-sized to-do list. But if you ask them what they accomplished this week that actually matters, their mind goes blank.
Busyness isn't a badge of honor.
You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…
Just keep going ✌️
The learnings on how to be a good designer vs how to run a design studio are lightyears apart.
It's completely ridiculous how different and unrelated they are.
Almost 10,000 downloads, with paying customers in 10 countries and 7 new features, just by building what we believe should exist.
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Pewbeam to the ends of the Earth!
All these apps that promise to help you build the next big idea/app/business with AI feel eerily similar to forex traders selling courses on trading.
Your successful business is THE tool that builds a successful business for me. Ok.
They oversimplify to sell. Ridiculous.