Elon Musk explains why starting a company is like staring into the abyss and eat glass
“A lot of times people think creating a company is going to be fun. I would say it’s really not that fun. There are periods of fun, and there are periods where it’s just awful. Particularly if you’re the CEO of the company. You actually have a distillation of all the worst problems in the company. There’s no point in spending your time on things that are going right. So you only spend your time on things that are going wrong that other people can’t take care of… The most pernicious and painful problems.”
Elon believes founders need to have a “fairly high pain threshold” and explains that starting a company is like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.”
“The staring into the abyss part is that you’re going to be constantly facing the extermination of the company because most startups fail… You’re constantly saying, okay, if I don’t get this right, the company will die. It’s going to be quite stressful. And then the eating glass part is you’ve got to work on the problems that the company needs you to work on, not the problems you want to work on. And so you end up working on problems that you’d really wish you weren’t working on… And that goes on for a long time.”
Video source: @khanacademy
Saw #Sora last night. It has blown up overnight and for good reason!
We are living the AI revolution just like my parents lived the computer and smartphone innovation.
20 years from now the current AI model versions will be like 1 GB USBs in 2004.
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Most university websites are horrible.
Finding the right information takes you ages and a lot of open tabs. This pain point often gets students into the wrong programs with incomplete information.
Have you faced this as well? #university#student
There are a bunch of certifications online that are marketed as "free". However, to receive the verified credentials you have to pay a decent amount.
The business model is very clever but being at the other end of this is very frustrating.
"Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
That'll be my approach now to build things that really solve issues.
I'll put ideas out there get feedback from the community and build in public. Let's see where that takes us
The great thing about owning your own biz is that you can build your job around your strengths.
In a normal job you may have to do work that isn't your favorite.
And of course you most likely have this kind of work in your own biz too.
...But you can start to delegate it out to others as you grow. Or you can just pick a biz where that kind of work isn't needed.
You aren't too good at writing?
You can hire someone else to do that.
You don't like doing sales?
Pick a biz model where it isn't needed.
You don't like to do database migrations?
Me neither.
You don't like marketing.
Too bad.. you can't get around that one. 😄
The best design case studies I've read so far are from
@5imonPan. How he frames the problem and explains the entire thought process is insanely detailed.
Here's one of them. Learned a lot simply reading this: https://t.co/EVMkU5rb4M
Share in comments the case studies you like💡
Another suggestion: keep the scroll position of the right properties bar the same when a user selects another element. It gets very confusing scrolling to find something again each time
I love framer but its shortcuts are a pain. I am used to Figma and I want to use Framer more but every time I start enjoying the tool some shortcut breaks my designs.
Please at least use ctrl+y for redo. It isn't used for anything.
@framer TEAM #FEEDBACK