Elin Park

Fair enough, You guys don't read long posts 🫡 Hey builders! Solofounder from Korea, building a genuine connection platform. Looking for people who care about: 🦾 Building in public 😎 Their own thoughts, their own way 🩷 Real humans only (bots 🤮) What are you building? 👇

@SahilBloom Exactly what I'm trying to do from the start of this year😁

An 18-year-old asked me for life advice this week. My response: Don’t stress over the things the world tells you to stress about (college, major, first job). Just try to: (1) Be curious (2) Be valuable (3) Be around great people If you do that, the rest will work itself out.

@RobertGreene Dreams need realistic plans behind them. Without one, a dream is just a fantasy.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

@DRexroat4841 Totally agree

Aesthetic appreciation is the most expensive thing. It's expensive not because it requires a lot of money, but because it requires a lot of time. You can buy a beautiful item, but you can't buy a pair of eyes that truly know how to discern.

The essence is ultimately love. People chase money, fame, and success because ultimately they want to be loved. The essence is not pursuing desire, but discovering love within yourself.

@readswithravi True. Suffering made me more solid.

Jensen Huang said it right: “Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people, it is formed out of people who have suffered.”

@naval But is that real freedom? Or do we just feel free because we are the ones acting? The will that moves me still has origins I never chose.

Existence itself is a miracle - the rest is science. There is no single meaning to existence - if there were, we’d be slaves to it. Within existence, there are rules of logic and science. If it was magic, the world would be un-navigable. Truly the best of all possible worlds.

@dragosroua @naval Are you a buddist too?

@naval Welcome to Buddhism

Except for love, the world is empty.

@naval Exactly. Love wins all

Be the kind of man with a reputation so real that the only way to defeat u is to kill u. Very few people have the courage to go that far, so u've already won.

@samueljmcd Provisional patent for my business model. Spent about two months. Looking back, a patent is just a fast way to hand my recipe to competitors. The real moat is being first in the market, not the patent.

Founders, what is the one thing you spent too much time on at the start of your business?

Alan Watts

Be sincere, but not serious.

@rackSpreader1 Because human desire is endless. Until capitalism disappears and AI replaces everything, humans will continue to be like that.

if claude code was supposed to solve swe, why are people still working 9-9-6? its almost like coding was never the bottleneck?

@rackSpreader1 I got you

Billions must see my shitposts

@rackSpreader1 Same here. But I recently joined the path of a founder.🤣

Im a highly anxious person. Just thought id put that out there

@rackSpreader1 Lol then now most of us are actually on the 'Elon road'🤣🤣

elon musk started his first company because he couldnt get a job at a tech company btw

In the end, the key is that the belief that you will win actually brings you victory. What has a greater impact on success is not external conditions like your educational background or career, but positive thinking. If you confine yourself to realistic conditions, nothing will happen.

The world is deeply unfair. Some of the most talented people I know are stuck in dead end desk jobs while some of the snarkiest narcissistic tyrannical workhorses are in positions of great power. This has always greatly saddened me. After a lot of analysis, I think there are 5 reasons this happens: 1. Refusal to believe / fear of failure. Loss of belief that where there is a will (to enact change), there is a way e.g. “I am just a cog in the wheel. If I say something, no one will listen.” or “if I do this, I will upset somebody” 2. Lack of purpose. You don’t really understand what you’re fighting for and what you believe in. You fight for inconsequential, often selfish, goals. e.g “Will doing this get me a promotion? Should I completely change everything to do this other project cause it will get me a promotion?” 3. Lack of self awareness. I will stand up to this thing I believe in and they will listen to me. e.g intern saying: “why doesn’t the ceo like my view on company strategy?” 4. Refusal to play. The failure to acknowledge that your worldview is only as powerful as your ability to influence others of your worldview OR a complete repudiation of the will to interact with those who don’t share your worldview e.g. “these guys just do what they want. They won’t listen to me. what will happen if I do this?” 5. Refusal to strategize or concede. The unwillingness to play and win a side quest that will ostensibly further your vote because you find the interim goal pointless. Or the inability to concede a battle to fight the war. e.g. “this direction is wrong. I need to fight it (even though it’s a small issue)” Almost everyone who is bitter or feels stuck in their career boils down to one of these 5 failure modes 1, 2 and 3 are the most common. Many suffer consequences of 2-5 and end up in 1. I’ve personally seen some of my sharpest friends land up in 1 because they just don’t believe they can win. One privileged part of my job is getting to interact with people who are willing to, against all odds, believe in something heretical, know why it’s important, know what needs to be done to make it real, do it, and make side quests to get it done. I think it applies to everyone doing anything.

"If you’re doing something big, expect criticism. People don’t attack average. They attack different."

@russellbrunson I stopped pretending to be average. The old me chose a small life to avoid criticism. I broke that version of myself.