We're all nerds who've spent the last 20 years of our lives just coding and making little things for the world, and the idea that you could teach AI how to go make things, and have everybody have an AI that can help them make things and feel the wonder of that, it's pretty sick.
Fear is the killer and enemy of business. Fear is the thing that kills business.
The fewer constraints that you give someone, the more freedom they have to solve the problem, and the more freedom they have to surprise you with the solution.
Learn, build, share, repeat.
Every single time I had an idea... somebody told me it wouldn't work.
We build on other people's ideas. An innovation is actually taking two or more things that were already well known and putting it together in a new way.
Understanding the motivation of the other person is really, really important.
It'd be one thing if we tried and we gave it our all and we just weren't good enough. I'd be salty as hell, but it would be an outcome that I could live with. But if we felt like we could've gone for it all, we could've pushed harder, and we didn't — I don't think we would live with ourselves in that outcome.
Intuition is much more interesting because it has all sorts of influences.
In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game. The challenge is to figure out what game you're playing.
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