What matters to other people is what they think comes naturally to you without thinking.

A year from now we will be laughing.

[Create affordances for different levels of expertise: analog people, quick learners who are less technical, power users, programmers.]

[Including an additional, more advanced toolset that is beyond the capacity of most users can help cultivate a community of more complex customizations enabled by local developers and programmers.]

[Enable users with varying skill levels to collaborate as a way to completely express more complex ideas.]

“Free Software”: An idea whose time has passed

[The GPL only fails bad actors if hobbyists are responsible for regulating cyberspace and preventing cybercrime.]

Jeff Morris Jr on Investing In Product Companies

[A lot of people use Tinder just to see who likes them back because it's like a game.]

[If you buy Tinder boost it shouldn't feel like Google Adwords, so we created superpower-like animations to make it feel like a special moment in art or NBA Allstars.]

[Most people would say that they let me invest because they wanted me to help with product, so I decided to re-brand the fund as product-focused and I would be the product person on yor cap sheet.]

[We chose TikTok influencers over Silicon Valley investors because we knew our product worked and needed an audience, distribution.]

[Why shit on the city where you grew up and received many opportunities?]

Phil Libin: Find a new way to ski

[You know everything's going right when it had nothing to do with you.]

Let's talk about Duckworth, Walsh, and systemic issues....

[If you're complaining about diversity quotas, you are the reason they exist.]

Your First 60 Days

[Talk to people. It's never a bad time to talk to customers or prospects if you're having high-bandwidth conversations with them about their problems, desires, or what they need.]

[Knowing how to cook is a friend catcher.]

[Problem-solving is a friendcatcher. When you solve people's problems, they come to you with their problems.]

[A friendcatcher is resonant, tractable, and underserved.]

[The email subject is the promise: overdeliver in the body.]

[When someone first pays, they probably are more motivated than normal, the iron is hot so take advantage, you can reach out more then and then cool off later.]

[Don't start the work of a SAAS company until you've had 10-25 conversations.]

[Have 10 commits to buy before launch.]

[There will probably be 1 primary thing and 2 secondary objectives during any week. One of those should be 'talking to people' and another should be 'less interesting but necessary'.]

[Being able to credibly say 'this is what I do' builds trust.]

[You can be unreasonably good at what you do, irrationally responsive to customers.]

[Move fast and make things.]

[Price tiers are a way for customers to acknowledge they are getting outstanding value, you can ask them why, this can tell you what to build next.]

Makes A Scene

[Trolling is posting where the reaction is the content.]

[The real hallmark of abundance is variety not quantity.]

[Facebook's real product is the ability to find lookalike customers: turn this audience of 10 into 1000 that are similar.]

[Kids understand systems well because because they don't think in terms of cause and effect: they look around and make things.]

[Silicon Valley wins because it is a culture that values building over solving problems.]

[The purpose determines the course. If we are clear about 'why', then the how is more evident and we can define success.]

Indian music, sangeet, was originally conceived as an offering. Tagore said that creativity comes from a recognition of the excess that life has given to us: we offer what is bit ours.

Friendcatchers

[Learn to cook so that you will have an excuse to invite friends over for he rest of your life.]

[Spreadsheets integrate text and graphics by organizing textual programs or formulas into the tabular grid of visual cells.]

[Spreadsheets pre-name variables according to their position on the grid.]

Let's talk about Biden's mental state....

[In the face of a wild accusation that's false, try leaning into it: isn't it great that a team of experts rather than a politician is making decision? If the vice president has the final call, it must be terrible for Trump. Can you imagine how bad it must have been that we elected a guy with dementia?]

More than people knowing who you are, give them chances to see you in action.