The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.
No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
Obsess about the quality of the product.
If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.
Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.