Thread by @trylks

Substraction thread

Particularly relevant for time management

Set an aspirational hourly rate, it will help you to quantify the importance of activities and stay focused

Substraction leads to simplicity

KISS: Why = pain point (PP) = opportunity = MVP's USP

Other than that: YAGNI, don't waste resources

Your products are built one PP at a time, in diminishing returns

Resource allocation prioritized by ROI

When ROI for next PP is too low: the product is finished, i.e. dead

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It's easy to find a complex way to create huge hypothetical value

Finding a way simple enough to be implemented by a single person is easy too… for small actual value: many minimum income jobs

Scale the value, keep the requirements low, how far can you get?

Keep it simple

Here X: Y reads as "To do X, do Y"

Find a job: show the value you can create: prove by selling: sell something at a gain (no loss): create the added value

But if you can do that? Would you want a job

Better creating than consuming, jobs too; so that you can consume when needed

JS may be the best option to create value, it is simple and runs on browsers, outcompeting Java ("runs «everywhere»") with simplicity

Some people will tell you the way to create value is capturing time or attention, taking something from people, creating artificial complexity,…

Disregard them, attention may give you fame and status, but it destroys time, the most valuable asset

This is a substraction thread

To create value, take hassle from people's lives, not their time, attention, or energy

Automate the things they have to do but do not want to do

If you are going to say something, first make sure it is better than the silence

Try to think what is the best thing that you could be doing now, do that

Very rarely someone else would be able to tell you that better than yourself

Leaders create leaders […], make yourself one