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@trylks
Sep 22, 2018 • 15 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
Think out of the box:
Normal approach → normal results
Break w/ norms, do things differently & better
Sometimes is not about what you add, but about what you remove
If something is wrong, unnecessary, expensive,… remove it!
@BedrosKeuilian (interesting as the centroid of a cluster, IMHO):

1. Find your purpose
2. Be resourceful, relentless, resilient
3. Set higher expectations
4. Own your life

First: Fail small many times very fast. Learn.

Then: Win big a few times committing to them. Invest.

You need to check the numbers to evaluate how good your idea is, when are you going to break even, how much are you going to make. If it's not done, it may be for a reason, other people are "creative" too, not just you. Avoid self-delusion & ruin

Market analysis may be point zero, before starting:

- Creation of customer personas
- Value proposition - problem solution fit
- Business development
- Prototyping
- Real customer engagement
- Iterative product development
- Convincing product pitch

Good thread:
Be cheap

It also applies to individuals, a penny saved is not a penny earned, but a net penny earned after taxes

It is still just a penny, though. Earn as much as possible, then *invest* as wisely as possible

It's not about total amounts, but % of ROI
To be successful in the [job] market, don't be the purple squirrel everybody is looking for, be the person they should be looking for and nobody thought of because nobody else is

Then prove it to get the job

Better: get customers, prove valuable
Follow @jackbutcher and @visualizevalue

It takes time, talent, and effort to put some things so simply and concisely

More important: laconic wisdom is good for you to read and think about, it is a huge benefit, at a small cost

Creating value may be easier than creating trust (~branding), which you need to put anti-rival goods (e.g knowledge) behind a fence. Focus on what's most relevant as a differentiator

Creating a product that doesn't require you as an active component allows for grater scalability
@RayDalio #principles are all relevant for this thread. I'm not going to copy all of them, this one may be the most relevant here. If you didn't know about them, start here:
Do not compete with others, help them to be free in new ways

From @MJDeMarco: fix ONE thing that sucks w/:
- Control: make profit ← make decisions
- Entry: avg effort → avg results
- Need: needs to not suck: *USP
- Time & Scale: not constrained by your time/location

*USP: Brand & marketing: ♕, margins, growth
USP source unknownMargins, source unknownUnscripted, source MJ DeMarcoFastlane, source MJ DeMarco
From @naval (again):
- Ownership
- Provide at scale what society wants and cannot get yet
- Learn foundational skills
- Follow your curiosity into knowledge nobody teaches
- Leverage code and media
- Work hard, with the right people
- Build and sell

More:
*Uniqueness*

Only 1:
- product, result, process, offering
- type of: client, problem

Result is transformation, from A to B

Align: why, how, what, and who

Be world class, the only choice [you = "transformer"]

Identity is: A, B, who, you = brand

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Dec 10, 2022
GPT may explain references, requiring a bit more reading and a lot less background to understand the expansion of reference-rich very concise text

I tried, the result follows, seems better than expected. I will certainly use it again
1. Clever Hans was a horse that was able to perform mathematical calculations and other impressive tasks, which initially appeared to be a remarkable example of animal intelligence.
However, it was later discovered that the horse was not actually doing the calculations himself, but was instead picking up on subtle cues from the audience and trainer to determine the correct answer.
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Dec 4, 2022
Data abundance: thinking is the bottleneck, needing less of it is an advantage

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Dec 30, 2021
Both web3 and the metaverse jeopardize untapping the relevance of crypto: “X as code”:
$BTC: money
$ETH: contracts

Software is eating the world. Eating the web or VR only delays the unavoidable

Relevant: create value, solve problems, do things that matter, fix what sucks,…
Web3 is a terrible choice of name too

Crypto is undoing a lot of the centralization in web 2.0*, and requires technical knowledge. Today, it should be 1.2 IMHO

* Similarly to Jamstack: less PHP, more REST & static pages. Nobody promised linear evolution…
Many people expect crypto will become easier, more polished, and gain mass adoption

It is about freedom & DIY, avoiding intermediaries & centralization, much like GNU/Linux. It's not about getting rich. In fact normally freedom comes at a cost

When mass adoption for GNU/Linux?
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Nov 30, 2021
🍋🍑🍎

Producers selecting for their preferred features against the preferred features of consumers, great way to shoot yourself on the foot

The Boeing case is a “great” example

Many references in the parent thread and replies too

In a way, it is the “natural order”
Narrator: The guy that could not do maths went to be the boss of the guy that could, demanding explanations that 4 year old children could understand

Personal suggestion: practice puppetry
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Nov 18, 2021
This is fine
Nothing better than education to create value in a society

Pre-apocalyptic dystopias are boring, full of BS and nonsense

Post-apocalyptic dystopias are more interesting, because there's less margin for BS and nonsense

There will always be plenty, though. It's a main feature of a "complex" brain
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Mar 14, 2021
Several things may be considered as "triggers" of an AI winter, e.g
—"aging" of teams
—not meeting investor expectations after diminishing returns
—whistleblowers ending the hype by exposing lies
—…

TBH: I think those are symptoms, but not the root cause
The root cause is: "running out of hype"

The biggest threat (TBT) for GPT-4 is not bad practices in OpenAI, investors disappointed with GPT-3, or Gary Marcus calling BS on GPT-3

TBT is finding something to sell not sold for GPT-3 yet

IMHO — as always
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