Founders

i now stay away from founders building multiple moonshot projects at once 

you have 120mins (tops) of great creative, high focus work everyday 

if you’re splitting that across 2 or 3 things, you’ll midcurve it & have 2 or 3 ok ok products (I promise. not everybody is elon)

earn the right to dabble in multiple things after you’ve hit a home run 

concentrated bets are table stakes

or, you’re your own biggest enemy 

I’ve been my own enemy for most of my lifee. so I know.

big disagree here

too many founders not knowing when to quit and waste their time on a project that would never work

diversity of projects builds the product launching muscle

cto @ bwl.gg, 100M+ users (bdut.ch) 🙏 $eggs is life

I’m more with @farcasteradmin.eth than @tike here

Moonshot projects, ala Elon, not many of us are. 

But knowing when to pivot - by launching many - also super important. This is why VCs back previous founders too. 

See slack, flickr, or even suhail doshi (mixpanel), or Jason calacanis (pivot king, does many things at oke go). 

And doing a few things at one go? Not a bad thing. See gumroad. 

Larger orgs that are led by founders also do a lot more than just one thing. Enterprise? 

So nothing is stopping someone laying down bricks to become the next Oracle or Microsoft. 

Focus, but also know when to experiment and throw energy behind it. Isn’t that how we got Gmail, and subway transit stuff in google maps? :)

Applied AI, databases, data, vibe coding (sic.), open source, community/devrel, remote. 

itinerant businessperson. globalist.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

you're right about this. we just have to make sure that our perception becomes reality, and if you're a founder, this is what you're building towards. 

people often talk about the steve jobs reality distortion field, but the reality is, he was trying to fit that square peg into a round hole, and i guess it mostly worked in terms of great product execution.

lol re: flat earthers :)

unfortunately the sad part about the world is that there's precedence for *everything* in this world 

which is why, everything is perception driven 

what's an illusion, what's the truth - hard to tell 

physics is the only law of the universe, everything else is a suggestion 

you could make a case for anything / anybody 

exhibit A: flat earthers exists