4 hours ago
You can’t beat a flawless demo. Except with a busted demo. If done right, a busted demo will always leave them wanting more because they’ve seen how far you’ve come. Demos still have value, with or without AI, it just depends how far you are willing to push them.
2 weeks ago
When shrink-wrapped software was the game, you built it, you put it on a CD, you let your sales and marketing teams took over. And you waited. And if the sales weren’t coming in, you made the call to make the next version, put it out the door, do more sales and marketing. And wait again. The first version never sells well, there is more waiting then anyone wants to admit, but eventually programs, funnels, plans, actions, blogs and patience and luck come together. But don’t fool yourself if someone tells you otherwise; there is always a wait in anything
2 weeks ago
If you’re busy, it goes into work. If you’re sitting around, it goes into your phone. If you have a plan, work gets chipped away. If you’re overloaded, it goes into wondering how you are going to get it all done. If you’re underloaded, it goes into dreaming of when you can be overloaded again. If you’re relaxed, it goes into the pursuit of your many hobbies. And if you’re bored, you’re probably wondering what do with all this time. The point is it all goes somewhere, but we will never see what that there is, but just trust that
1 month ago
When you think you have it, 10 minutes later there is a post about something undoing what you have just spent the last few days trying to master. It can be demoralizing that the thing you figured out is now gone and replaced. But maybe everyone hasn’t seen it. Or maybe, based on their environment, they cannot even use it. Whatever the case, don’t downgrade your learning, the work you put in, the effort you went to get there – just because someone took what you learned and made it faster. “If it was that simple, everyone would be doing
1 month ago
I watched Jim Lee do this incredible drawing on YouTube once of Magneto. It all started from his hand, where it’s white, nothing but a blank page, but every line and shadow emerges from that clean and white component as crisp as the page he started on. From there, everything inherits and extends from. It’s an inversion of work – nothing had to be done in that one spot, but around it, everything sprang from it to create an incredible masterpiece. No other comments, just beyond impressive.
