Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 23, 2020
Paul Graham on Twitter
If you really think a problem is serious, then take it seriously. Be empirical and tentative, as a scientist would, instead of dogmatic.— Paul Graham (@paulg) October 28, 2022
crap on Twitter / X
Mocking day in the life TikTok edits with. Really long drawn out consumerist day
christian on X: "what's the best strategy for finding people who are intellectually curious, physically and mentally healthy, fun to go out with, good professionals, and with good character?" / X
festive goblin ⊙v⊙ on X: "spent the weekend with a bunch of highly agentic people and now i've got a bunch of thoughts about agency" / X
notes on agency
brian🧃 on Twitter
“Why does it seem like the more inner work a person does the less likely they are to maintain a relationship”
Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter
"i'm trying to be less stressed", "i'm trying to be less unhappy", "I want to feel less alone", etc, all same issueyou gotta focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to gohttps://t.co/tFaWtEZM1p— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) December 15, 2021
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Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances. This is not the modal employee, including at places which are justifiably proud of the skill/diligence/etc of their employees.
Startups are (by necessity) filled with generalists; big companies are filled with specialists. People underestimate how effective a generalist can be at things which are done by specialists. People underestimate how deep specialties can run. These are simultaneously true.
The hardest problem in B2C is distribution. The hardest problem in B2B is sales.
Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution.
nobody serious will engage in contract review over an idea, and this will mark you as clueless.
David Perell on Twitter
28 short pieces of life advice:1. Block off 90 minutes in your calendar every morning to work on the most important thing. Wake up early if you need to. Don’t compromise.— David Perell (@david_perell) October 3, 2022
Ethan Mollick on Twitter
Relevant again; We have a tendency to simplify complex problems so that we can understand them & then we solve the simplified version.This can backfire for wicked problems: those that are complex, uncertain & hard to evaluate. Review this list of reductive tendencies to help! pic.twitter.com/VaoKbcLeKE— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) October 3, 2022