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Sam Altman on learning more from success than failure:
"You learn some lessons from failure but I think you learn way more from success. I think this is really true when I look at the lessons of where I have failed at something. I learned something generic about grit and determination and what not to do. But most things don't work. So there's a lot of reasons why things don't work. And I think it's harder to put together the correct causation. And when I've had something really work, when I understand what parts of Y-Cominator really worked, trying to apply those lessons going forward has been much more helpful to me than trying to apply the anti-lessons of what didn't work. And so, you should of course learn as much as you can from every data point. So learn from the failures, learn from the successes. But in my own experience, I have tried to apply those lessons, the lessons I learned from success were very good and I should have applied those more. And the lessons I learned from failure were either fairly generic and I kind of already knew them or got in the way of something else. And I think this is like generally true for a lot of people."
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mantras on my wall.
if you like any of them download/print them from here on my website:
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especial thanks goes to @danielbelfort
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make your work a game.
regard your life work as the most fascinating game you know.
volume: whatever you do, you must do it with gusto, you must do it in volume. it is a case of repeat, repeat, repeat.
enthusiasm: what we do best is what we like best. the love of work can be cultivated just like the love of play.
game/play: make your work a game. regard your life work as the most fascinating game you know. consider business a game and play it as a game.
present: no argument in the world can ever compare with one dramatic demonstration. entertain before you educate and inspire.
story: tell the pains that you take to excel. the maker is too close to his product. he sees in his methods only the ordinary which others may find fascinating.
service: you should position your ads to not be about you or your product or your company, but what you can do for them
convince: think only from your customer's perspective. ask a person to take a chance on you, and you have a fight. offer to take a chance on him, and the way is easy. best ads ask no one to buy.
sample: let people try your product, give samples. don’t give samples to people who do not request it. arouse interest in your product before it has value to anybody. products handed out without asking lose respect. they have to do a little bit of effort, but then give them a lot in return.
product: a good product is its own best salesman
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to build a cool product now, you really only need two ppl:
one dude with exceptional vision & taste who knows what should exist & can provide the right feedback loops for iteration.
& one dude who is absolutely relentless about making it real no matter what.
that’s it. & sometimes these two are the same.
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we are in a technology overhang at the moment.
founders need to take advantage of this window of opportunity and close the gap between technology capability and practical adoption.
no one else will.
Yesterday at DealSourcing in Oberursel. Judging by my blue jeans, I’ve been spending a little too much time in San Francisco.
I gave a short talk on “Silicon Valley AI meets the German M&A market.”
In other conversations that day, I heard everything from “AI doesn’t work for me” to “We’re building our own AI internally.” I suspect the latter is incorrect framing. Building useful software on existing models makes sense. Training a foundation model would be a curious use of a German PE firm’s capital.
Intelligence is already cheap. The wrong focus and the wrong application make it expensive.
What surprised me most, even among the younger people I spoke with, was how little use went beyond chatting with Claude in the browser or app. Hardly anyone was working with AI directly in their project folders or through the CLI.
From those conversations, Germany still has considerable ground to cover in putting AI to work. For firms willing to learn, there’s plenty of room to get ahead with the tools already available.
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i think it’s a very simple and effective strategy, but difficult to put into practice for exactly the reason mentioned. I made this pretty much my only goal for my 33rd year of my life. even i put it on my birthday cake and set up a daily task with ChatGPT to message me every evening and ask what I did that day to get 1% better. it’s been going really well so far. I even built an agent using the iMessage API that checks in with me every day and holds me accountable. pushy.cc
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volume: whatever you do, you must do it with gusto, you must do it in volume. it is a case of repeat, repeat, repeat.
enthusiasm: what we do best is what we like best. the love of work can be cultivated just like the love of play.
game/play: make your work a game. regard your life work as the most fascinating game you know. consider business a game and play it as a game.
present: no argument in the world can ever compare with one dramatic demonstration. entertain before you educate and inspire.
story: tell the pains that you take to excel. the maker is too close to his product. he sees in his methods only the ordinary which others may find fascinating.
service: you should position your ads to not be about you or your product or your company, but what you can do for them
convince: think only from your customer's perspective. ask a person to take a chance on you, and you have a fight. offer to take a chance on him, and the way is easy. best ads ask no one to buy.
sample: let people try your product, give samples. don’t give samples to people who do not request it. arouse interest in your product before it has value to anybody. products handed out without asking lose respect. they have to do a little bit of effort, but then give them a lot in return.
product: a good product is its own best salesman
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useless chatter is the mark of mediocrity. avoid it like it’s radioactive.
my method: steer the conversation toward something important. mediocre people will either shut up or flee.
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I’m 33, living in Munich.
Tool maker.
Building attention-defense technology.
Love to connect with like-minded folks.
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That is exactly why I created @mailoverai
cold email is already dead for me with @mailoverai it’s categorized as “marketing” which I delete by batches with one click
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cold email is already dead for me with @mailoverai it’s categorized as “marketing” which I delete by batches with one click
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1-The Writer’s Cabin Above the Clouds
🤖 Made with AI
Announcing the Offprint™ Art Contest 🎨
The winning piece will be featured on the front cover of the August magazine.
How it works:
• I’ll shortlist 4 finalists, then X decides the winner via poll
• Deadline is Sunday, August 30 at 11:59 PM EST
• Landscape format (1.4:1 recommended)
• Prompt: “total freedom”
To enter: quote this post with your artwork.
GO CREATE!
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Best product ideas are found through noticing.
Notice what frustrates you.
Find the few who need it fixed now.
Build the smallest proof.
Keep talking to them and iterating till they love it.
Here is a thread on 2 of @paulg essays about ideas worth building:
ALT ideas worth building