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k00b 2 years ago
gm make something bitcoiners want
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k00b 2 years ago
You can get to a point where you’re working so much you have to choose two: family, friends, sleep.
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k00b 2 years ago
It seems most successful FOSS companies that haven’t fallen back to some kind of BSL simultaneously built a paid closed-source service that consumes their FOSS software.
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k00b 2 years ago
Making something flame retardant usually involves setting stuff on fire.
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k00b 2 years ago
Bias toward solving the hard problems first. You'll always have enough energy for the easy problems.
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k00b 2 years ago
Good artists steal. Great artists ask the artist they're stealing from for advice.
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k00b 2 years ago
"Ivory towers have the best view," said the oligarch to an empty room.
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k00b 2 years ago
gm make something bitcoiners want
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k00b 2 years ago
Intuition is a compass not a map.
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k00b 2 years ago
The only project you need to succeed at is yourself.
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k00b 2 years ago
The oldest people I know are dead. You're alive. Act like it.
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k00b 2 years ago
gm make something bitcoiners want
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k00b 2 years ago
My favorite product development heuristic: build things that make both you and the product better. When those are out of sync, its a pretty clear sign that you're doing something wrong. I've been unconsciously testing for this for a long time.
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k00b 2 years ago
gm make something bitcoiners want
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k00b 2 years ago
An elitist attitude has pervaded the left in this country that considers nuanced speech dangerous. "What you said is factually accurate and reasonable but The Lessers won't understand the nuance so publicly stating it is dangerous and toxic to society."
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k00b 2 years ago
The easiest way to be right is to lie to ourselves. We can even remove the need to lie with just one meta-lie: our feelings are facts. We want so badly to be right and for there to be no problems left to solve. Our feelings are springs surfacing oceans of self-certainty, virtue, and complacency.