Anton

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.

What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.

Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.

Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.

If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.

But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.

That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.

[blue @bluewmist]

a mistake that cost me 5 years: thinking preparation was progress. reading every book. taking every course. planning every detail. meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. you learn to swim by getting in the water, not by studying water.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job

[blue @bluewmist]

Between 25 and 30, a man faces his hardest battles, not with the world, but with himself. You realize the mistakes you've repeated for years and start breaking each cycle, one by one This is the age where men either transform into kings or remain slaves to their past forever.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Yesterday was the inflection point: being based is now more cringe than being woke.

Blindly agreeing with everything because it’s on your team actually makes you part of the problem.

If you can’t name one thing you don’t like about your side’s platform, you are no different than a bot and you are more concerned with ego than truth.

[Simon Berens @sberens]

Exciting personal update — I've been working on building the world's brightest lamp, with the goal of getting daylight levels of light indoors.

We just launched on Indiegogo an hour ago; I'm especially proud of the video!

[David @dzhng]

2.3k stars on this github repo in 3 days... wat

https://t.co/rU6V1jixOQ

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work.

The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox
https://t.co/v1BWuArhKE

[ILYA @ispekhov]

Incredible number of people get into smth without being passionate about it even for 10%. “Oh, that’s what makes money now, let’s do it! That’s the latest trend!” is the dumbest approach.
Everything is monetizable these days. There is even an air guitar world championship lol.
Would be great to see more people making a bet on what they don’t get bored doing.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development.

It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it.

Instead, founders should have a fundamental belief about what people want—and they should keep iterating until that value is correctly surfaced.

In practice, this means you should keep a steady flow of new users as you add components to the product, seeing if it solves a core part of the activation and signup loop.

The only part that could possibly be “half-baked” is those individual components. But even those need sufficient quality so there are no confounding factors that distort the signal.

[Alexis Rivas @alexisxrivas]

Stunning.

I want to see more great architecture like this in common places. Grocery stores, schools, hospitals, cinemas, pharmacies.

Great design isn’t easy, but it helps bring magic to everyday moments.

[Anton @mironov]

@marckohlbrugge It’s Cathay, isn’t it?

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

Once in a decade hiring opportunity for one of the most prolific Rubyists out there.

[Lindsay @lindsayinvests]

People will say ‘money isn’t everything’ and then spend 40-60 hours per week away from their family working a job they hate to get it.

[Suhail @Suhail]

There are days where you just feel like you have no path to winning or solving a difficult challenge. And then days where you do and it feels like nothing can stop you.

It’s totally normal in a startup. Likely it’s neither and you just gotta keep laying down bricks.

[Anton @mironov]

@levelsio @Delta Aged like milk

[Anton @mironov]

@levelsio Seek discomfort

[Bryan Liles @bryanl]

Working long and hard doesn’t lead to burnout. Working long and hard without giving your brain endorphin boosts does. If you aren’t getting wins, your brain will rebel by shutting down. Also there is a difference between being tired and burnt out.

[Suhail @Suhail]

There is a great clarity in knowing what your users want. Everything that could distract you goes to wayside. There is no confusion. No "growth hacks" necessary. More money often won't help. No what-ifs. Meetings that don't help you achieve it are ignored.

Just build it.