@garybernhardt It’s not weird. It’s just this is most likely going to be soon considered as vintage. In a similar way like fast fashion vs bespoke tailoring
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.
We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.
OK I have to admit I was surprised to meet engineers and EMs today who work in the Warsaw office of:
- Google
- NVIDIA
- Netflix
- Snowflake
- Meta
- Superhuman
- Wix
Can’t name another city in Europe save for London with this much concentration of Big Tech + hot startups! 🇵🇱
@TCzajka Idea podatku progresywnego pomija również fakt późnego kapitalizmu gdzie realne bogactwo nie pochodzi z pracy etatowej a tworzenia firm. Naprawdę bogaci ludzie nie wchodzą w progresję bo ich bogactwo wynika z posiadanego kapitału
@KamilStanuch@MagicznySzymek Co do zusu to miałem e-wizyte, wszystko mi wytłumaczono, załatwiłem w 15 minut temat. Urząd Skarbowy - urzędnicy kilkukrotnie proaktywnie dzwonią zwrócić uwagę na moje błędy. Jestem pod wrażeniem ostatnio
@andrzejdragan Porównanie do genetyki byłoby myślę ciekawe - znamy strukturę genu (tutaj architekturę sieci) ale jego ekspresja/fenotyp (emergentne właściwości sieci) bywa nieprzewidywalna
@nateberkopec I’m worried that this skill is slowly evaporating. Any journalist that is trying to challenge the guest is usually somehow categorized by the audience (sometimes there are valid reasons for it)
code like this makes me realize that elixir is just so objectively superior
i can match messages, in the function definition, and just match the prefix... this is just such an annoying thing to do normally