A mistake I see solopreneurs making:
Selling products for problems they haven't validated.
- No real problem
- No real urgency
- No real pain
Remember that pain is an indicator of purchase.
"Nice to have" doesn't sell much.
I escaped the rat race 3.5 years ago.
My secret sauce is not playing status games.
I don't:
- want to change the world.
- want to build the next unicorn.
- want to be featured on any lists.
- want to get the highest valuation.
Most people feel there are too many meetings.
However most people also hate the idea that they aren’t being included in important conversations and decisions.
Many businesses are penny wise, pound foolish.
“We require pre-approval for small business expenses”.
“We can’t afford consulting or training.”
“We use the free version. We can’t afford to pay for better tools.”
“We don’t pay well.”
“We buy developers cheap, slow laptops.”
A unit test shouldn’t:
🚫 Call a DB
🚫 Run a browser
🚫 Make an HTTP call
🚫 Rely on stuff on other machines
A unit test should pass without a network connection.
There’s nothing wrong with doing such things in a test. But if a test does these things, it’s not a unit test.
Don't imitate qualities of your heroes at random. Some are flaws they succeeded despite. The qualities that are easiest to imitate are the most likely to be the flaws.
Every Founder in Year 1:
"I love my company. These people are my family and I will run this business forever."
Every Founder in Year 8:
"I hate my life and my employees hate me. Please buy my business and let me go away for a very long time."
Yo wtf...just saw a stat that said only 30-50% of people have an internal dialogue. There's really 50%+ of the population out here walking around with NOTHING going on in their head?? Everything is starting to make much more sense
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This is genius. Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsensical lyrics meant to sound like American English—to prove that Italians would just love any American song. And it was a hit.