Jake Casey (jakeacasey)

New all time peak in the chess dot com rapid pool. I can smell 2k.

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RIP Danya. Thank you for teaching me so much.

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This weekend some buddies and I played Northwoods Black, the hardest disc golf course on the planet. I shot a +25! It was a wild experience, for sure. The course feels fair, but very very hard. You're walking up some fairways after throwing 2-3 perfect shots and still not seeing baskets on par 4's. Coverage makes it look much MUCH shorter than it actually is irl. I wouldn't say that I feel the need to play it again, exactly. It's a mentally and physically exhausting course for sure. If you're ever off the fairway you're taking a bogey/double/triple, nearly guaranteed.

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It's my birthday. A few lessons: 1. Treat goals like cats-- don't look directly at them. 2. How good you are is a scale, doing it at all is true or false, start with doing it at all. 3. Please do not forget that it goes fast. 4. Mundane beauty is the most beautiful.

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I used to think that product matters more than marketing. An obviously dev-centric view. I had the "if you build it they will come" mentality. I'm now realizing that marketing matters as much, if not more than the product itself. This is because the concept of dependent events. Before somebody can gain value from your product, they first have to use it. Before that they have to purchase it, and before that they have to hear about it. Somebody gaining value from your product/service is purely dependent on that chain. For the next step to happen, the previous has to have happened. If you had the cure for cancer but couldn't tell anyone, it's meaningless. The value is stored and can't be leveraged. I believe that this is the case for most products. But Jake, what about word of mouth and referral? These are valuable concepts, and part of any successful product. But the initial marketing starts the flywheel, it lets you improve the product to GET TO word of mouth and referral.

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