Theo Armour

@heidy_dms So do you think that cad/cam will be a dying industry

The world is in a crazy state: 2 days ago I had never design a proper CAD file(except for PCB), Now I'm training a model for automated Mate definition, selection and generate parametric animation from .stp files.

A Waymo slows down the march of the Budweiser Clydesdales in San Francisco right in front of my house

Check out my latest article: PolySynth: Precision MSLA Printing Meets Full-Color and Multi-Material Innovation linkedin.com/pulse/polysynt… via @LinkedIn An article about my dialogue with Eric Potempa, a startup founder sponsored by Founders Inc / @fdotinc

@StevenBartlett No wonder people keep wanting to have coffee with me! I'm 78 and I've been coding for over 50 years.

Dear, first business owners... 95% of your problems are old problems wearing new clothes... please understand this framework 👇🏾 That supplier who's ghosting you? Caesar had the same issue with grain merchants 100s of years ago. That investor who keeps moving the goalposts? The Medici banks dealt with that in 1400s Florence. Your co-founder drama? Jobs and Wozniak. Gates and Allen. Every founding story ever... Do not convince yourself your situation is special. Or that your market is different. Or that your generation is unique. Stop trying to solve everything from first principles, you're not the first human to run a business... Someone probably solved the problem that is keeping you up at night in 1987. And 1993. And 2004. And last Tuesday. I've been in business for about 15 years and it's taken me 12 of them to realise that the first question to ask yourself when you're facing a challenge is... "Has anyone solved this before?" When Netflix started streaming - genuinely new. Nobody had done it at scale. When I started hiring people - ancient problem. Millions had done it before. When Uber fought city regulations - uncharted territory. The playbook didn't exist. When I tried to motivate my first team - timeless challenge. Ask any Roman general. In the last couple of years, I became wildly more productive when I started asking one question: "Who's already solved this?" If someone has, I find them. Pay them. Hire them. Ask to meet them. Whatever it takes to not spend three years learning what they can tell me in three minutes. If nobody has - if it's genuinely unprecedented - then I experiment like hell. No advisors. No books. No "best practices". Fail as fast as I can. 👴🏻 OLD PROBLEMS = FIND EXPERTISE 👶🏼 NEW PROBLEMS = FAST EXPERIMENTATION The tragedy I see all the time is founders wasting their prime years solving solved problems... They're brainstorming HR policies that P&G nailed in the 80s. Their revolutionary approach to email marketing? Someone A/B tested that in 2015. That radical pricing strategy? It's chapter 4 in a book from 1992. The smartest founders I know are intellectual thieves - they steal everything that's been solved and pour all their creativity into the 5% that's genuinely unprecedented... For many founders ego makes us think we're too special for other people's solutions. Inexperience convinces them their situation is unique. Insecurity makes them think they look weak for asking for help. So we sit alone, solving solved problems, while our competitors are already three problems ahead. You do not need to reinvent the wheel... you just need to find someone who'll explain how the thing works! 🛞 The most expensive education I've gotten is learning things myself that someone twice my age would have told me for free over coffee... 😅

I just published "Steve Bartlett at Founders Inc" medium.com/p/steve-bartle… @fdotinc @StevenBartlett Image generated by NanoBanana.

Bon voyage to my new friend!!

As I in my Uber to get back to France, after the 3 weeks at @fdotinc, Building, both @HaptifyOff and lifelong friendship, I’m feeling like I’m leaving home, I’ll come back, as fast as possible ! See you in a few weeks!

I'm backer #8 of 'Brain dynamics in braille reading: Letters to language' on @lets_experiment experiment.com/projects/brain…

I'm backer #8 of 'How can ultrasonic wearables be most useful for humans?' on @lets_experiment experiment.com/projects/how-c…

@baseballmarty @baseballmarty Marty on Union Street yesterday. Captured with my RayBan Meta glasses. As nice in person as smooth he is on air!!

I just published Collecting Homespun Writing medium.com/p/collecting-h…

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I just backed Rokid Glasses, World's Lightest Full-function AI&AR Glasses on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/rokid… My second time backing Rokid!

@mrdoob @steubens7 but is it possible to scrape the number of sites that use "three.js"

@steubens7 We can't add any sort of tracking though.

I wonder how many frames does Three.js render every day all over the world... 🤔

@mrdoob From the early read me files: "The aim of this project is to create a 3D engine with a very low level of abstraction (aka for dummies)." How many dummies brains have been altered by Three.js?

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Cognitive Reality Show Explained chatgpt.com/share/6791db29…

@asksensay @tedcapital "New CAD advisor" here. Delighted to be on board. My best design-very luckily-has been the design of my own life. Now that I am 77, it is important that the design of my digital afterlife is just as cool. ;-)

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