The Wisdom Wall
6 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“and, you know, the kind of thing we tell people, um, whenever we're giving advice is don't go for the Super Bowl launch. Um, don't go for one single thing. Um, you don't have to worry about exclusive story.”
“The answer that it was, it always started as like an invert, like a pyramid and you always start at the bottom. And you work your way up to mainstream media. And the top of the pyramid is CNN, or New York Times. The bottom of the pyramid are all, any, any person that you could talk to, like a user, right?”
“And the, the other idea, and this is actually something that Paul Buckeye is one of the speakers at Wycombe as well, he said, He said, make something that a hundred people love. And it may take a year, it may take two years for a hundred people to love it, but that's the hardest, you know, thing to do, is not to make a…”
“So, you know, when you're a really small company, like, you have the opportunity to retell your story many, many times. As long as every time you tell it, there's something different about it.”
“my advice is for people to have already kind of figured out, like, so they already have something going. They've already kind of struggled through an idea and figured it out. I think those are the people that are at the best advantage. And then Paul Graham can, you know, I wouldn't use Wicomery to necessarily figure…”
“Paul Graham says, make something people want, and we kind of, You know, tweak that a little, and our, our, our kind of saying in the company is, make something people need. Like, we absolutely should make something people need”