Most people have a thing for which they are naturally prolific. What's the thing you just can't help but do a crazy high rep count of?
I said to myself, 'I'm going to learn everything I can faster than anyone else, and I'm never going to share with anyone what I'm doing.'
The more it was turned down, the more encouraged I became.
It's got to be better. In my mind, it has to be better. I don't want to make a me-too product. I'm not motivated to do that, and I've built a team around me who are motivated to take risks and do something different and better always.
I don't develop products to make enormous commercial success. It's nice to do that. But you do it because you want to do it.
Taste is judgment plus curiosity. The more you can extend the curiosity branch, that improves your judgment, which then builds your taste.
A lot of people are going to be able to create software who never had technical capabilities before, but they have good taste and know what good is like.
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.
Imagine how hard it is to start your business, then multiply that by infinity. And if you’re still committed to do it, and you have the stamina to stick with that, then you’ll be successful.”
Everything that's ever worked for me has come out of the periphery.
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