Lee

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" is a surprisingly profound quote. When I ask people who've pulled off remarkable things, it's interesting how many confirm that they wouldn't have started if they'd know how long and difficult the road would be.

“i could build this in a weekend” is a sign of someone who never actually built anything that works at scale

something that’s taken me awhile to learn, wanted to pass it along: in technology, overall progress depends on the number of product iterations and the advancements made in each one one of the more important traits for a strong founder/CEO is the ability to iterate through product quickly and repeatedly this might seem obvious, but it has to be foundational to the company’s culture: it must be established from company inception, be a criterion for hiring and firing, and be a daily practice. my intuition is that 99% of companies do this poorly if i was an investor, i’d find a way to objectively measure this instead of focusing on the more static kpi’s for founders, this is the secret sauce to the most important technologies of our generation

The average home cook’s user experience has been held hostage by recipe websites for the past few decades: 1) Bloated paragraphs of text 2) Pages packed full of ads on every scroll 3) No real focus on how to actually learn cooking from a recipe. Over the past 12 months, my team and I started building a new website and cooking company to change that…I’d like to introduce you to Cook Well.

One reason I don't like Zoom is that I can't do this. Another is that I have to think about my facial expression all the time.